Dinamo Brest Vs Dinamo Minsk
Sunday, 10th May 2020 – 18:00 Kick-Off
Belarusian Vysshaya Liga
Pick: Both Teams To Score
Odds: 19/20
Bookmaker: 888Sport
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Preview: En route to clinching a maiden league title in 2019 Dinamo Brest would momentarily stumble at home to Dinamo Minsk. Will this season’s corresponding fixture throw up another surprise or can the defending champions turn on the style?
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Dinamo Brest Preview – Champs faltering in title defence?
It was in this very fixture last season that Dinamo Brest (10th – W3 D1 L3, GF9 GA7) would suffer their one and only loss in the league, a season which culminated in them sensationally breaking the incredible stranglehold BATE Borisov had over Belarusian football. A first ever title, finishing five points clear of the former, certainly compensated for a 2-1 reverse suffered at the hands of the Minsk outfit midway through the term.
Nevertheless, the champions may feel there is a score to settle this weekend. Brest would actually exact some revenge in the subsequent reverse fixture, running out 3-1 winners as the visiting side on the final day. By that time, though, the pressure was already off with their lead insurmountable.
An indifferent start to life as defending champions – winning three of seven fixtures thus far, and just once as hosts (W1 D1 L2) – means Sunday will be anything but another procession. Manager Maksim Krasnobayev also had to witness a semi-final exit from the cup recently. Some confidence was duly restored last time out, however, comfortably dispatching rock-bottom Belshina away from home to win 3-0 and thus halt two straight league defeats.
Dinamo Minsk Preview – Will visitors be seeing red yet again?
Not a lot to celebrate at the end of the previous campaign for Dinamo Minsk (13th – W3 D0 L4, GF10 GA8), whose fourth place meant the club missed out on a top-three finish for the first time in almost a decade. Too many defeats proved their downfall – their figure of 10 was twice the number the top two managed between them – and already, just seven games in, the team are enduring similar struggles.
Losing 2-1 at home to leaders Slutsk last time out dropped them to 13th in the standings, a mere point above the relegation play-off after collecting nine of 21 points so far. Prior to this, however, coach Leonid Kuchuk had overseen back-to-back victories over Neman Grodno (2-0) and Smolevichi (1-3). Their brief resurgence on hold it seems.
Their toils have been more pronounced on their travels. Aside from beating a Smolevichi side who are on of only three beneath them in the current Vysshaya Liga table, Dinami Minsk have succumbed to slender one-goal margin of defeats at local rivals FC Minsk (3-2) and Gorodeja (1-0). Temperament is clearly an issue as well having had a man dismissed in the second period of both aforementioned losses.
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Dinamo Brest Vs Dinamo Minsk Betting Advice
For visiting Dinamo Minsk the formula has been simple: when they’ve maintained their discipline by keeping all eleven players on the pitch in away fixtures, they’ve been victorious. That has only occurred once however. Dinamo Brest could be primed to capitalise on any ill-discipline. The champions should be buoyed by last week’s thrashing of Smolevichi, although have disappointed so far at home, winning one of four (W1 D1 L2).
Dinamo Brest Vs Dinamo Minsk Key Facts
- Just seven games into this season and defending champions Dinamo Brest have succumbed to three defeats – two more than throughout the whole of 2019.
- A penalty has been awarded in all three of Dinamo Minsk‘s away league fixtures this season (two were awarded to them).
- Each of the past four league encounters between the two clubs featured at least one goal for both teams.
Both teams are up around the 70% mark when it comes to both teams scoring in their respective home and away encounters this season, with neither boasting a clean sheet to their name in said matches. Therefore odds around EVENS on both sides netting, in a contest both outfits desperately require a positive outcome, seem fair.
Best Betting Odds for Dinamo Brest Vs Dinamo Minsk
Dinamo Brest – 23/20 (Boylesports)
Draw – 11/5 (Unibet)
Dinamo Minsk – 5/2 (Bet365)