BATE vs HJK (Prediction, Preview & Betting Tips) / 25.07.2018

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In the Champions League season 2018/19 this week are the games in the second qualifying round. On Wednesday evening, the Belarusian champion meets the Finnish champions: In the Borisov Arena Bate Borisov receives the HJK Helsinki. Helsinki prevailed in the first qualifying round of the premier class with 2: 1 and 3: 1 against the Faroese club Vikingur Gota. Bate Borisov does not enter the competition until the second round. Who can continue to hope for the Champions League group stage? The betting base will analyze the match and present betting odds and bets for Borisov vs. Helsinki.

Bate Borisov:

With fourteen championship titles, Bate Borisov is the most successful club team in Belarusian football ahead of Dinamo Minsk. The last twelve championships went to Borisov. So far, the club has won the Belarusian Cup “only” three times. In the last season things went very well in the first league in Belarus. Bate ended up only with a goal difference by 11 goals over Dinamo Minsk. Both teams had collected 68 points in the 2017 season. At home Borisov had to accept in 15 games only a bust. Also in the current season of the 1st Belarusian League, the defending champion is back on track. After 17 match days, the champion is as usual in 1st place and has a lead of seven points on Minsk. Minsk, however, has completed a game less. The team of coach Aleksey Baga won 14 of 17 games of the season. In the domestic Borisov Arena you are still undefeated this season and conceded in nine games only three goals.

Coach Baga has been with Borisov only since the beginning of June and eight games. He was succeeded by the dismissed Oleg Dulub. Under the new coach, the team is still undefeated. The record champions made seven wins and a draw. Even internationally, the Belarusians in their club’s history could cause quite a stir. Borisov has already reached the group stage in the Champions League five times: 2008/09, 2011/12, 2012/13, 2014/15 and 2015/16. In the Europa League, Bate Borisov has even reached the sixteenth finals twice: 2010/11 and 2012/13. In the previous year Borisov reached the group stage of the Europa League and met there, among others, the 1. FC Cologne, which could be defeated at home 1-0. The only home defeat in the last EL season cashed against Arsenal London with 2: 4. In the last twelve home games Bate conceded only one defeat. Nine home games could win one of them.

Helsinki:

With 28 national championships and 13 cup wins, HJK Helsinki is number one in Finland. As the only Finnish club succeeded HJK in the 1998/99 season, the entry into the group stage of the Champions League. And in the group stage of the Europa League, Helsinki was the first and only club from Finland in the 2014/15 season. In the seasons 1974/75, 1982/83 and 1985/86, the Finnish record champions had already reached the round of sixteen in the European Cup, twice in the national champions, once in the Cup winners. In the 2017 season of the Veikkausliiga, the highest Finnish league, Helsinki became champions by a lead of 20 points on Kuopion.

In 33 games HJK had only 16 goals conceded. In 16 away games there was only one defeat. Also in the current season 2018 the team of coach Mika Lehkosuo is back on championship course. After 20 matchdays, the champion is again in 1st place. The lead over the first pursuer Rovaniemen PS is currently seven points. So far, HJK had to accept ten defensive matches again only one defeat. In the total of 14 most recent matches there was only one defeat for Helsinki. Coach Lehkosuo has to give up Belarusian offensive player Akseli Pelvas. The hopes rest on the Brazilian Klaus, who has scored 13 goals in 20 league games.

BATE vs HJK head to head matches

12.03.12 CF HJK BATE 1 : 1