Champions League betting and spectator preview: Maccabi Tel Aviv and Dinamo Brest meet at Winner Stadium to measure strength and learn who makes it to the next stage.
There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.
It should be mentioned that Dinamo Brest play their home matches on artifical turf, so they have to adjust for this one as it's played on grass. Does it matter? Recent statistics for Dinamo Brest on grass are 16 victories, 3 draws and 8 defeats from 27 games. In these matches they have a goal statistics scored/conceded: 36-22. You can compare this with overall results below.
Dinamo Brest have a very long trip to this away game, as there's more than 3400 kilometers in distance to cover. This could prove a challenge, at least for the supporters.
Maccabi Tel Aviv form and stats
Action has already taken place for Maccabi in Champions League as they have defeated Riga and Suduva to reach the 3rd Qualifying Round. Maccabi Tel Aviv was eliminated in the 2nd qualifying round last season in the Champions League.0 victories, 0 draws and 1 defeat. That’s what Maccabi Tel Aviv have to build on here at Winner Stadium in the Ligat ha'Al.
Maccabi manager G. Donis and his team return home after a 2-2 draw away versus Bnei Yehuda in the Ligat ha'Al. Before that game, the home loss against Maccabi Petah Tikva with the scoreline 1-2.
The hosts are favourites to win this game, with an estimated chance of about 55-60% of that outcome. Earlier Maccabi Tel Aviv matches with similar probabilities have ended with zero wins, two draws and zero defeats (from two games).
It's still early days, but we have some goal stats for the Maccabi Tel Aviv at home in the league. 1 on target and 2 scored by the opposition; from 1 match.
Dinamo Brest form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Astana and Sarajevo in order to reach 3rd Qualifying Round of Champions League. Dinamo's mission in Europa League last season failed in the 3rd qualifying round against Apollon.The story so far for the visiting team on their Vysshaya Liga travels is 5 wins, 1 draw and 5 defeats.
Two travels in a row for Dinamo, whose manager S. Kovalchuk could celebrate last time after the Vysshaya Liga win against Dinamo Minsk. Ahead of that match was the victory versus Meliorator Zhitkovichi at their stadium, the result 3-0.
As you can tell from the result, the match against Dinamo Minsk was as crazy as a clown in a village circus. Great fun for the neutral supporter with 6 goals, will the fun continue today?
As mentioned above, the odds for this match puts the home team as favourites. Perhaps this eases the pressure on the away team, who are capable of producing an upset here on a good day. Looking at earlier matches with similar odds and Dinamo Brest playing away, we found one game. Results were zero away wins, zero draws and one home win.
A quick return to home after this game, as Dinamo are hosting Ynergetyk-BDU in the Vysshaya Liga only three days away.
Dinamo Brest has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches in the league this season, 18 goals from 11 games. As opposed to that, Dinamo Brest have seen the ball go into their own net 13 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  P. Savitskiy 6 goals |  D. Laptev 6 goals |  M. Gordeychuk 5 goals |
Maccabi Tel Aviv missing players
Dinamo Brest missing players
| Maccabi Tel Aviv | Dinamo Brest | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 13 | 25 | ||
| 17 | 10 | Won | W | 5 | 13 | ||
| 6 | 2 | Drew | D | 1 | 1 | ||
| 2 | 1 | Lost | L | 7 | 11 | ||
| 44 | 25 | Scored | S | 22 | 50 | ||
| 11 | 5 | Conceded | C | 18 | 35 | ||
| 92% | 92% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 80% | 85% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 69% | 80% | ||
| 40% | 46% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 54% | 64% | ||
| 8% | 8% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 31% | 36% | ||
| 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 31% | 24% | ||
| 28% | 31% | BTTS | BTTS | 38% | 56% | ||
| 68% | 69% | Clean Sheets | C S | 23% | 20% | ||
| 12% | 8% | Failed to Score | F T | 38% | 24% | ||
| 5.8 | 6.9 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.9 | 6.4 | ||
| 3 | 3.2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.5 | 6.1 | ||
| 1.4 | 1.3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3.1 | 2.8 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 3 | 3 | ||
| 253 | 154 | Total Shots | T S | 123 | 316 | ||
| 116 | 72 | Shots on Target | S O | 53 | 127 | ||
| 38% | 35% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 42% | 39% | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Maccabi Petah Tikva | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| 2 | Bnei Yehuda | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| 3 | Ironi Kiryat Shmona | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 4 | Hapoel Be'er Sheva | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 5 | Maccabi Haifa | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 6 | Beitar Jerusalem | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 7 | Hapoel Kfar Saba | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | -1 | 3 |
| 8 | Maccabi Tel Aviv | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | -1 | 1 |
| 9 | Hapoel Haifa | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | -1 | 1 |
| 10 | Maccabi Netanya | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -1 | 0 |
| 11 | Hapoel Hadera | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 |
| 12 | Hapoel Tel Aviv | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -1 | 0 |
| 13 | Ashdod | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 |
| 14 | Bnei Sakhnin | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -3 | 0 |
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Shakhtyor | 23 | 13 | 7 | 3 | 43 | 13 | 12 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 27 | 5 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 16 | 8 | 30 | 46 |
| 2 | BATE | 23 | 14 | 4 | 5 | 49 | 23 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 23 | 9 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 26 | 14 | 26 | 46 |
| 3 | Neman Grodno | 23 | 12 | 5 | 6 | 31 | 22 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 16 | 8 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 15 | 14 | 9 | 41 |
| 4 | Torpedo BelAZ | 22 | 9 | 8 | 5 | 32 | 27 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 14 | 11 | 11 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 18 | 16 | 5 | 35 |
| 5 | Isloch | 22 | 11 | 2 | 9 | 33 | 31 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 20 | 12 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 7 | 13 | 19 | 2 | 35 |
| 6 | Ynergetyk-BDU | 22 | 10 | 4 | 8 | 32 | 32 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 22 | 21 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 11 | 0 | 34 |
| 7 | Ruh Brest | 23 | 8 | 9 | 6 | 35 | 27 | 12 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 15 | 19 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 20 | 8 | 8 | 33 |
| 8 | Dinamo Minsk | 22 | 10 | 3 | 9 | 26 | 19 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 11 | 8 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 15 | 11 | 7 | 33 |
| 9 | Dinamo Brest | 21 | 10 | 2 | 9 | 37 | 27 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 19 | 14 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 18 | 13 | 10 | 32 |
| 10 | Vitebsk | 23 | 7 | 9 | 7 | 23 | 28 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 13 | 9 | 12 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 19 | -5 | 30 |
| 11 | Minsk | 21 | 7 | 4 | 10 | 27 | 40 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 18 | 19 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 21 | -13 | 25 |
| 12 | Slavia | 20 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 27 | 37 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 13 | 15 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 14 | 22 | -10 | 24 |
| 13 | Slutsk | 21 | 6 | 3 | 12 | 24 | 37 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 13 | 15 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 11 | 22 | -13 | 21 |
| 14 | Gorodeya | 23 | 5 | 5 | 13 | 19 | 38 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 11 | 16 | 12 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 22 | -19 | 20 |
| 15 | Belshina | 22 | 5 | 4 | 13 | 24 | 41 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 11 | 22 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 13 | 19 | -17 | 19 |
| 16 | Smolevichy-STI | 21 | 3 | 5 | 13 | 23 | 43 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 16 | 20 | 11 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 7 | 23 | -20 | 14 |