BATE 2 hosts Slutsk 2 in round 9 of the Belarusian Premier League Reserve. The match will be played on Friday, May 15th at Borisov Arena (Barysaw)
Last year, Borisov’s youth became the strongest team in the Belarusian Premier League Reserve, but the Yellow-Blues are not doing well in the current championship. In the first eight rounds, the team managed to earn only four points, which corresponds to the penultimate line in the standings. Only completely dead Gorodeya is below. Of course, BATE plays terribly on the defensive - now the hosts have 18 goals conceded, that is, the team concedes 2.25 goals per game on average. Now I can’t believe at all that the Yellow-Blues are capable of playing in the defense reliably. Truth be told, there should be no problems in terms of breaching the opponent’s defense because Slutsk is not particularly reliable in this component either. It is clear that the hosts have a huge advantage in head-to-head matches, but now BATE is a bit different from BATE that was a year ago. We should wait for a very bright match between two outsiders in the standings.
Slutsk has only four points more than BATE. The visitors are 14 points behind the leader of the standings, Dynamo Minsk, and it already looks like a distance that is almost impossible to win back. I cannot but note that visitors are one of the most scoring teams in the league - an average of 3.9 goals is scored per match involving Slutsk, and only Vitebsk, Smolevichi and Isloch have more. It is clear that the visitors expect to earn at least one point in a meeting with BATE, so Slutsk will surely not get embarrassed. The team plays completely without defense, so any bets on high-scoring football look promising.
In my opinion, it is worth betting that both teams will score. Outsiders of the Reserve Premier League often show very interesting matches, so the coefficient of about 1.4 can be called a gift. Well, BATE and Slutsk are not able to play reliably in the defense now - I bet that both teams will score!
Prediction for the match: Both teams to score - yes
