International cups are a highlight for most teams. Both Shakhtyor and Sfîntul Gheorghe are looking forward to this Europa League fight to decide who advances from the 1st Qualifying Round.
This should be an interesting game with lots of spark and energy as both teams are well rested since they last saw competitive action. Game on!
It's quite the trip for Sfîntul Gheorghe when visiting Shakhtyor as the cities are 900 kilometers apart.
Shakhtyor form and stats
Shakhtyor participated in Europa League the last season, where they reached the 3rd qualifying round.23 points is a decent return from 11 Vysshaya Liga games here at Stadyen Budaŭnik for Shakhtyor. The data says 7 wins, 2 draws and 2 losses. Shakhtyor are on a three game winning streak in their home games.
Shakhtyor are hoping to put things right at home after a defeat in their previous match, the score 2-4 away versus Isloch. Previous to that game, a Vysshaya Liga home match hosting Dinamo Brest in a game that was won 1-0.
As you can tell by the result above, the goals flowed freely in the previous game and the stadium rocked. Could there be another goal fest today?
There will be little rest for Shakhtyor after this match as they are travelling to Gomel for a Belarusian Cup game in only three days.
Goals decide football matches and Shakhtyor are scoring many of them at home; 22 on target from 11 league matches. As for guarding their own goal, Shakhtyor have only let in 5 goals at home.
Sfîntul Gheorghe form and stats
It's gone fairly well in the National Division away games so far for Sfîntul Gheorghe with six points collected from three matches.
Impressive finishing from D. Mandricenco and R. Volkov secured the home win 2-1 against Dacia-Buiucani in their previous game. It was a National Division defeat before that one as the away game against Petrocub wasn't a success with a 0-1 loss.
Gheorghe are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 4 away goals from 3 games (in the league). Gheorghe are defending well in their away games, having conceded only 2 times in 3 matches. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  D. Podstrelov 7 goals |   A. Suvorov 4 goals | R. Volkov 4 goals |
Shakhtyor missing players
Sfîntul Gheorghe missing players
| Shakhtyor | Sfîntul Gheorghe | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 14 | 9 | Won | W | 7 | 16 | ||
| 7 | 2 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | ||
| 4 | 2 | Lost | L | 5 | 8 | ||
| 44 | 28 | Scored | S | 17 | 38 | ||
| 17 | 7 | Conceded | C | 15 | 23 | ||
| 84% | 92% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 96% | ||
| 68% | 69% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 75% | 68% | ||
| 36% | 46% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 58% | 48% | ||
| 32% | 38% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 25% | 20% | ||
| 16% | 15% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 8% | 8% | ||
| 32% | 31% | BTTS | BTTS | 33% | 32% | ||
| 60% | 62% | Clean Sheets | C S | 42% | 44% | ||
| 24% | 15% | Failed to Score | F T | 25% | 28% | ||
| 6.1 | 6.4 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.2 | 4.1 | ||
| 4.4 | 4.6 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.2 | 3.2 | ||
| 2.4 | 2.1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.4 | 1.3 | ||
| 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 342 | 201 | Total Shots | T S | 66 | 182 | ||
| 141 | 85 | Shots on Target | S O | 30 | 76 | ||
| 31% | 33% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 53% | 46% | ||
| 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 | 22 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 38 | 13 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 22 | 5 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 16 | 8 | 25 | 43 |
| 2 | BATE | 21 | 12 | 4 | 5 | 42 | 21 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 18 | 7 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 24 | 14 | 21 | 40 |
| 3 | Neman Grodno | 20 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 25 | 14 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 16 | 6 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 8 | 11 | 38 |
| 4 | Isloch | 22 | 11 | 2 | 9 | 33 | 31 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 20 | 12 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 7 | 13 | 19 | 2 | 35 |
| 5 | Torpedo BelAZ | 21 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 31 | 26 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 10 | 11 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 18 | 16 | 5 | 34 |
| 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 | 22 | 8 | 9 | 5 | 33 | 24 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 13 | 16 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 20 | 8 | 9 | 33 |
| 8 | Dinamo Minsk | 21 | 10 | 3 | 8 | 24 | 15 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 4 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 15 | 11 | 9 | 33 |
| 9 | Dinamo Brest | 20 | 9 | 2 | 9 | 33 | 25 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 19 | 14 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 14 | 11 | 8 | 29 |
| 10 | Vitebsk | 21 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 22 | 22 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 13 | 9 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 13 | 0 | 29 |
| 11 | Slavia | 19 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 26 | 36 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 12 | 14 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 14 | 22 | -10 | 23 |
| 12 | Slutsk | 21 | 6 | 3 | 12 | 24 | 37 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 13 | 15 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 11 | 22 | -13 | 21 |
| 13 | Gorodeya | 22 | 5 | 5 | 12 | 19 | 35 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 11 | 16 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 19 | -16 | 20 |
| 14 | Belshina | 22 | 5 | 4 | 13 | 24 | 41 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 11 | 22 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 13 | 19 | -17 | 19 |
| 15 | Minsk | 18 | 5 | 3 | 10 | 19 | 36 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 16 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 20 | -17 | 18 |
| 16 | Smolevichy-STI | 20 | 3 | 5 | 12 | 21 | 38 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 16 | 20 | 10 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 18 | -17 | 14 |
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Sheriff | 8 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 22 | 24 |
| 2 | Petrocub | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 22 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 16 | 19 |
| 3 | Sfîntul Gheorghe | 8 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 16 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 18 |
| 4 | Milsami | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 14 |
| 5 | Dacia-Buiucani | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 10 |
| 6 | Dinamo-Auto | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 14 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 11 | -6 | 10 |
| 7 | Speranta Nisporeni | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 14 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 6 | -5 | 8 |
| 8 | Floresti | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 7 | -8 | 7 |
| 9 | Zimbru | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 13 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | -6 | 5 |
| 10 | Codru Lozova | 8 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 30 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 29 | -27 | 0 |