Belarus takes on the visitors Bulgaria at “Borisov Arena” in the gameweek six of the of the Europe’s Qualifiers Group stage for the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia. The match will be played in Borisov on Friday, June 9th.
Belarus was defeated in four last encounters without a single scored goal: vs. Bulgaria 0:1, vs. Sweden 0:4, vs. FYR Macedonia 0:3 and vs. Switzerland 0:1. As a result, Igor Kriushenko’s team has no tournament targets left as the side occupies the fifth place in the Group A standings with 2 points gained, two goal for and 10 goals against after five rounds. Belarus conducted two clashes in front of its supporters at the Qualifiers stage resulting in two draws: vs. France 0:0 and vs. Luxembourg 1:1.
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On the contrary, the Bulgarians won their two recent matches and got two clean-sheets in them: vs. Belarus 1:0 and vs. Netherlands 2:0. Having failed at the beginning of the Group stage, the Bulgarians managed to interfere into the battle for the first two positions in the Group A. At the moment the side occupies the third place in the table with nine points earned and 8-10 goal difference being just one point below Netherlands settling on the second position. Though, it should be noted that Petar Hubchev’s team was broken in both games at away grounds: by France 1:4 and by Sweden 0:3.
Belarus and Bulgaria have recorded six encounters since 2000 covering five Bulgarians’ victories and one triumph of the Belarusians. Their head-to-heads statistics witnesses in favour of Bulgaria, however, the rivals’ results in this Qualification presume that the hosts are quite able to pick up some points in the upcoming fight.
Prediction for the match: Belarus to win with 0.0 Asian handicap.