Tuesday 19 May 2020

BELARUSIAN CUP FINAL 2020 PREVIEW

ROAD TO THE FINAL 

BATE BORISOV 
THIRD ROUND - Sputnik Rechista W 5-2 (3,000) 
FOURTH ROUND - TORPEDO MINSK W 8-1 (3,085) 
QUARTER FINAL 1st LEG - Dynamo Minsk W 2-1 (9,805) 
QUARTER FINAL 2nd Leg - DYNAMO MINSK W 3-2 (7,113) 
SEMI FINAL 1st Leg - Slavia Mozyr L 0-1 (1,350) 
SEMIFINAL 2nd Leg - SLAVIA MOZYR W 2-0  (761) 

DYNAMO BREST 
THIRD ROUND - Rukh Brest W 1-0 (5,600) 
FOURTH ROUND - FC MINSK W 3-1 (6,203) 
QUARTER FINAL 1st LEG - ISLOCH D 0-0 (5,127)
QUARTER FINAL 2nd LEG - Isloch D 0-0 (Penalties 5-3) 
SEMI FINAL 1st LEG - SHAKHTYOR SOLIGORSK W 2-0 (813) 
SEMI FINAL 2nd LEG - Shakhtyor Soligorsk L 2-4 (349) (Won on Away Goals)

GOALSCORERS

BATE BORISOV (20)  
*Jasse Tuominen - 3 
*Amir Nathko - 1 
Anton Saroko - 1 
*Slobodan Simovic - 1 
Willum Willumsson - 1 
#Valdislav Mukhamdeov - 1 
Hervaine Moukam - 3 
Bojan Dubajic - 1 
~ Maksim Myakish - 1 
Maksim Skavysh - 2 
Pavel Nyakhaychyk - 1 
Dzmitry Baha - 1 
Egor Filipenko - 1 
Zakhar Volkov - 1 
Own Goal - 1 
* denotes no longer with club
# currently on loan at Smolevichy
~ currently on loan at Slavia Mozyr 

DYNAMO BREST (8) 
+ Vladislav Vasiliev - 1 
Oleksandr Noyok - 2 
* Pavel Nyakhaychyk - 1 
Roman Yuzepchuk - 1 
Pavel Savitski - 2 
Mikhail Gordeichuk - 1 
* denotes no longer with the club 
+ currently on loan with Rukh Brest

LAST FIVE FINALS
2019 - SHAKHTYOR SOLIGORSK 2 VITEBSK 0 (7,954) 
2018 - DYNAMO BREST 3 BATE BORISOV 2 (7,200)
2017 - DYNAMO BREST 1 SHAKHTYOR SOLIGORSK 1 (8,479) (10-0 PENS) 
2016 - TORPEDO ZHODINO 1 BATE BORISOV 1 (4,500) (3-2 PENS) 
2015 - BATE BORISOV 4 SHAKHTYOR SOLIGORSK 1 (9,100) 

LAST FIVE MEETINGS
Wed 25th Sep 19 - Dynamo Brest 1 BATE Borisov 1 (10,169) (PL) 
(H - M.Gordeychuk 46') (A - S.Dragan 53') 
(5 yellow cards issued)

Sun 14th April 19 - BATE Borisov 0 Dynamo Brest 1 (11,269) (PL) 
(A - P.Nyakhaychyk 48') 
(2 yellow cards and 1 red card issued) 

Sat 2nd March 19 - BATE Borisov 1 Dynamo Brest 3 (3,000) (Super Cup) 
@ FC Minsk Stadium 
(Bate - H.Moukam 49') (DB - D.Laptev 40', OG 74', P.Savitskiy 80') 
(10 yellow cards issued) 

Wed 31st Oct 18 - Dynamo Brest 1 BATE Borisov 3 (8,700) (PL) 
(H - P.Savitskiy 14') (A - E.Filipenko 49', M.Skavysh 87', I.Stasevich 90+5)
(7 yellow cards issued) 

Sat 19th May 18 - Dyamo Brest 3 BATE Borisov 2 (7,200) (Cup Final) 
(DB - A.Milevskiy 33', J.Fameyeh 75', P.Nyakhaychyk 88) 
(Bate - M.Ivanic 13', 49') 
(4 yellow card issued) 

LAST FIVE GAMES

BATE BORISOV 
Sat 25th April - Gorodeya W 2-0 
Wed 29th April - SLAVIA MOZYR W 2-0 (CUP SF 2nd Leg) 
Sun 3rd May - NEMAN GRODNO W 3-1 
Sun 10th May - Smolevichy-STI  W 5-3 
Sat 16th May - SLUTSK W 3-0 

DYNAMO BREST Sat 25th April - SHAKHTYOR L 0-2 
Wed 29th April -  Shakhtyor  L 2-4 
Sun 3rd May - Belshina  W 3-0 
Sun 10th May - DYNAMO MINSK W 2-1 
Sat 16th May - Energetyk-BGU  L 1-2 
 

FACTS AND STATS ABOUT THE COMPETITION

The First Round involves some clubs from the Second League and six non-league clubs paired with lower league clubs having a home advantage in a single-legged tie. Six non-league clubs entered the competition - They are the winners of the six regional (Grodno, Minsk, Brest, Gomel, Vitebsk and Mogilev) cups - Montazhink Mozyr and PK Kremo Kvasovka both got through the the second round by beating Stanles Pinsk and Engertyk BGATU-Minsk of the then Second League. They were both drawn at home to teams from the First League in the second round - Motazhink lost to Naftan (0-1) in front of 240 people and PK Kremo lost to Slonim-2017 (0-2) in front of 50 people. 

In the second round the rest of the second league sides join along with the first league sides with the lower ranked side gaining home advantage in ties still played over one leg. The Premier League sides join in Round three with the games still played over one leg with the lower ranked team still gaining home advantage.

From the fourth round onwards there is no seedings or home advantage with games played over two legs.  

Oshmyany, Arsenal Dzerzhinsk and Kletsk had the best run of the Second League sides before being knocked out at the third round stage by Engertyk-BGU, Isloch and Torpedo Minsk.   

Lokomotiv Gomel and Naftan had the best run of the first league sides reaching the third round only to be knocked out by Torpedo Belaz-Zhodino and Shakhtyor Solirgorsk. 

Vladislav Vasiliev scored Dynamo Brest's first goal of the competition in their local derby win against Rukh Brest (then in the first league) on Saturday 27th July. He now plays for Rukh Brest having transferred to the promoted team in the pre-season. 

COULD PAVEL NYAKHAYCHYK COME BACK TO SCORE AGAINST HIS OLD SIDE WHO HE HAS ALREADY SCORED FOR IN THE 2019/20 CUP?

The most interesting fact of the 2019/200 Belarusian Cup concerns BATE Borisov's 31 year old midiflder Pavel Nyakhaychyk who joined them during the Belarusian transfer winter transfer window  from Dynamo Brest. He played for Dynamo in the early rounds and scored in their victory over FC Minsk before playing for BATE in their games against Dynamo Minsk and Slavia Mozyr - He scored against Dynamo Minsk.  It seems the 'cup-tied' ruling is not used in Belarus and he will be eligible to play in the final. He started his career with BATE and this is his third spell with them - He was with Dynamo between 2017 to 2019 and scored in the 2018 Cup Final against BATE which Dynamo won 3-2. 

Both teams are in the final despite losing games in their semi-final ties. BATE lost 1-0 away to Slavia Mozyr in their first leg before winning 2-0 in the second leg to go through 2-1 on aggregate. 

Dynamo were cruising their semi-final winning the home 1st leg 2-0 and were a further two goals in front in the away 2nd leg at half time only for Shakhtyor to go goal crazy in the second half scoring four times from 58 minutes to 74 minutes - Dynamo held on for the final score to be 4-4 and went through on away goals. 

The final is scheduled for a 3pm UK time kick off on Sunday at Dynamo Stadium in Minsk. If you can't wait that long there is a dress rehearsal tomorrow evening (Wednesday) as Dynamo Brest host BATE in a Premier League game with the kick off being 5pm. 

If you fancy a bet on the Cup Final bet365.com currently make BATE favourites at 10/11 with Dynamo rated at 16/5 - If you think it'll be all square that's currently rated at 9/4. 

In tomorrow's league game Dynamo are 5/2 with BATE at 21/20 and a draw at 12/5. 

The form book indicates BATE should win both games but you just never know with the magic of the cup! 


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