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Slutsk vs Vitebsk Prediction & Betting tips
Last autumn, both teams fought in the relegation battle for naked survival in the Belarusian Vysshaya League. In the end, both stayed close. Vitebsk with just two points ahead of a direct relegation zone, Slutsk with five points behind. It is all the more remarkable that both teams started so well now. With six points from the first three league games, they can be found high up in the table.
Seen in this way, it is almost a kind of top game that takes place at the City Stadium in Slutsk on Saturday afternoon. After all, the winner even has the chance to climb to the top of the table. Which bookmaker offers the best odds at Slutsk against Vitebsk can also be found in the betting odds comparison.
Also because of this high odds, our recommendation is to play against Vitebsk tip 2 at Slutsk. After all, two other factors speak for the away team: Firstly, Vitebsk won two of the last three guest appearances at the City Stadium in Slutsk. And on the other hand, guest coach Sergey Yasinski has the more powerful team and above all the more stable defense available, which justifies this supposed outsider tip.
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Slutsk:
FC Slutsk is celebrating its 22nd anniversary this year. Originally founded in 1998 as Slutsksakhar Slutsk, the club is now in its seventh year as a member of the Vysshaya League. So far, however, no real success has been celebrated.
The club with the distinctive Pegasus in the coat of arms is all the higher for the current season, because FC Slutsk greets after two matchdays and thus at least 10% of the season from second place, with which it kicks from the heart of Belarus would go into a UEFA competition for the first time ever – more precisely the qualification round for the Europa League.
Until then, however, there is still a long way to go, for which one or the other construction site must also be closed. Although in the Belarusian Vysshaya League finally scored a conspicuously few goals, the blue and whites have not yet conceded a goal in any of their three league games. Four goals are already on the debit side. Only three other first division clubs in Belarus had to fish the round leather from their own net more often.
That FC Slutsk nonetheless starts second in the fourth day of the top division of Belarus as a result of the table is solely due to the brilliant offensive. The Pegasi have already scored six goals, making them the country’s goal factory. Particularly noteworthy: the six hits are spread over five pairs of shoulders. Only the Russian Artem Serdyuk, who came from Volga Uljanovsk last summer, has scored twice so far.
Nevertheless, these offensive values should be treated with caution, because on the second matchday Dinamo Brest managed to pull the plug on the attacking line of the blue-whites and kidnap the three points with a narrow 1-0 away win at City Stadium Slutsk.
In Slutsk against Vitebsk, tip 1 is anything but a sure-fire success, especially since the guests also master the art of defending very well. In addition, Marat Buraev flew from the square in the recent 3-2 away win at Isloch Minsk shortly before the end and is absent today.
It is all the more important that the men of Vitali Pavlov shift down a gear and focus on the defensive in this groundbreaking home game, in which on the one hand the jump to the top is possible, but on the other hand they could also be brought back to the ground with a crash .
Last season, things weren’t going too well at City Stadium at home. Five home wins were at the end of 2019 with four draws, six home defeats and a whopping 26 home goals. In the end, this corresponded to the third worst value of the Vysshaya League.
Vitebsk:
While FC Slutsk was only founded in 1998, FC Vitebsk celebrated its biggest club success so far this year, winning the Belarusian Cup. A coup that would have been repeated almost 21 years later. In the 2018/19 cup season, however, Sergey Yasinski’s group failed in the final 0-2 to Shakhtar Soligorsk.
Nevertheless, it was one of the few bright spots in an overall very mixed season, before the class could be held just barely two points ahead of a direct relegation spot at the end of the year. Thus, the blue-whites were spared the second course in the second class after 2011. At that time, it took three years before the team from northeastern Belarus could report back to the Vysshaya League.
However, the great successes from the 90s could not be followed up when FC Vitebsk celebrated the runner-up in Belarus twice in 1993 and 1995 and came third in 1994 and 1997 twice. Fields with which the traditional club, which was even represented in the second-highest division of the Soviet Union in the 1960s, rarely had anything to do with.
Exactly that could change now, because with two wins from the first three league games Sergey Yasinski’s team got off to an excellent start and could theoretically climb to the top with an away win in Slutsk, although something urgently needed to be done for the goal difference. So Vitebsk had to concede two goals, but also only scored two goals.
Two goals, but mind you, they were perfectly distributed to the previous three games. With two 1-0 wins over Gorodeya and Smolevichi, these led to six points in a minimalist way.
This also speaks for the excellent defensive work of the kickers from the northeast of the country, who were able to bring the narrow lead over time in the recent away win at Smolevichi at least 35 minutes plus stoppage time. Center-back Daniil Chalov flew off the pitch with a smooth red card in the 55th minute of the game and consequently missed this away game in Slutsk.
It is possibly this alleged weakening that leads to the fact that the odds of bookmakers in Slutsk against Vitebsk swing quite clearly towards the hosts. The fact that the blue-whites come to Slutsk with great ambitions is also evident from the “head to head” comparison. Two of the last three guest appearances at City Stadium Slutsk finally went to Sergey Yasinski’s men, who have lost only one of the last five duels with the Pegasi.
Slutsk vs Vitebsk head to head matches
31.08.19 VL Slutsk Vitebsk 3 : 0
26.04.19 VL Vitebsk Slutsk 2 : 2
06.10.18 VL Slutsk Vitebsk 0 : 2
29.05.18 VL Vitebsk Slutsk 2 : 0
18.11.17 VL Slutsk Vitebsk 2 : 3