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Vitebsk vs Slavia Mozyr Prediction & Betting tips
Belarus remains the navel of the European football world in the current situation. Even if many seats in the stadiums remain empty, the games of the Vysshaya League arouse interest that was never thought possible. The 7th matchday of the 2020 season is coming up at the weekend. In Stadyen Central’ny Vitsyebski there is a duel between the Football Club Vitebsk and FC Slavia Mozyr.
After ten points from the first five games, Vitebsk lost at FC Isloch in Minsk last Sunday and thus missed a possible league lead. Opponent Slavia Mozyr is on the descending branch after only one draw from the last four competitive games.
But as the table service of the betting base shows, you can quickly climb up again with a win. There are only three points between fourth place, the first non-European cup place, and 14th place, the relegation place.
The betting base sees the home side slightly ahead and therefore bets Vitebsk vs. Slavia Mozyr gave her tip on a win for the hosts.
Vitebsk:
FC Vitebsk is one of the founding members who has never won the championship since the first season of the Vysshaya League in 1992. The biggest successes in the league were two vice championships in the seasons 1992/93 and 1994/95. However, there are also three relegations to the second division. After the last course in the second class in 2011, it had taken three years to reappear.
The club celebrated the greatest success in history in 1998 with the cup victory. The blue and whites ended the 2018 season in a great fourth place and thus qualified for the European Cup for the third time. But in the first round of the Europa League qualification, the final stop was against the Finnish representative from Kuopio.
Last year, the men from northern Belarus made it to the cup final for the second time, but lost it to Soligorsk. However, Vitebsk did not go well in the league. Here you could just save yourself from the descent by one point ahead of the relegation place. With 24 goals in 30 games, the FC had also been the weakest offensive team in the league.
In addition, coach Sergey Yasinski’s men had been one of the weakest away teams in the Vysshaya League with just four wins but nine losses. But this year the blue-whites seem to have made a lot of plans. After matchday five, Vitebsk was one of three clubs to lead the table with ten points. The Yasinski team missed the leap to the top of the table last Sunday when they lost 0-2 in Minsk near Isloch.
Thus, the club has slipped to 5th place in the table. With a success against Mozyr, Vitebsk could tackle first place again. This season, the North Belarusians have not suffered a loss of points or conceded in front of their own fans. With two 1-0 home wins against champions Dinamo Brest and Gorodeya, the blue-whites also proved to be true minimalists.
Good defensive work is one of the keys to success this season. Since experience has shown that not many goals are to be expected in a game by the Yasinski team, a tip on “Under 2.5 goals” could be a good option in the Vitebsk duel against Slavia Mozyr. Diego Santos Carioca should be back in the storm. After a poor performance, however, Nicolaescu only threatens the space on the bench.
Slavia Mozyr:
In the city of Masyr, with a population of 110,000, every football fan fondly remembers the second half of the 1990s. At that time Slavia was the measure of all things in Belarus and was able to get the double from championship and cup victory in 1996 and 2000. In 1995 and 1999 there were two vice championships. But these successful times are long ago. In the meantime, the orange-blacks have developed into the “elevator team”.
While it went down a league in 2006, 2013 and 2017, the return to the Vysshaya League was successful in the seasons 2011, 2014 and 2018. In the pre-season final accounts, Mozyr made a decent eighth place, seven points before the relegation zone. With very limited financial means, the club has to fight hard for every place and every point.
Mikhail Martinovich’s men got off to a good start in the season despite a 3-3 defeat at the current leaders Slutsk and defeated first champions BATE Borisov and then reigning champions Dinamo Brest. With the 1-0 home win in the cup semi-final first leg, the 15-time champion Borisov was even defeated twice within 14 days.
But after the 3rd matchday, a negative trend started at Slavia. The Martinovich team scored just one point from the following three league games. In addition, they lost the cup semi-final second leg at BATE Borisov on Wednesday with 0: 2 and thus had to bury the dream of the third cup victory after 1996 and 2000. With the negative series in the league, Mozyr dropped from fourth to 13th place in the table.
Now it’s an away game again. The orange-blacks could only win three of the last twelve league guest appearances. From these statistics, no prediction of an away win can be derived for the duel between Vitebsk and Slavia Mozyr. In addition, Slavia, although the coach lets his players run out of a compact defensive in the 4-2-3-1 system, currently has ten goals conceding the poor defensive of the league.
Midfielder Aleksandr Anufriev is still missing injured. Attackers Maksym Slyusar and Dennis Tetteh are available again after their injuries. Vladislav Malkevich and Ilya Vasilevich are candidates for the starting XI on Sunday. Attacking midfield Andrey Chukhley is currently outside.
Vitebsk vs Slavia Mozyr head to head matches
01.12.19 VL Vitebsk Slavia Mozyr 0 : 2
25.09.19 VL Slavia Mozyr Vitebsk 0 : 1
04.08.19 CUP Slavia Mozyr Vitebsk 3 : 1
29.10.17 VL Slavia Mozyr Vitebsk 0 : 1
17.06.17 VL Vitebsk Slavia Mozyr 1 : 0