The first round of the Belarusian football championship will conclude with matches in Vitebsk and Gomel

March 25, Minsk /Igor Khadasevich – BELTA/. Today, two matches will conclude the game program of the 1st round of the Belarusian Football Championship, BELTA correspondent reports. In Vitebsk, Novopolotsk's Naftan will host the silver medalist of the last national championship, Soligorsk's Shakhtyor, at 3:00 PM. Two hours later, the central match of the starting round will begin, in which the bronze medalists, Gomel footballers, will play against guests from Minsk's Dinamo. The home team will enter this game in high spirits – they recently won the Super Cup, defeating BATE (2:0). Moreover, both goals were scored by Vyacheslav Hleb, who last year played for the capital's Dinamo players. The lineup of Minsk, led by new coach Alexander Sednev, may include former Gomel players Igor Stasevich, Maxim Lisovoy, and Alexander Danilov. A live broadcast of this game will begin on the STV channel at 5:00 PM. Yesterday, Borisov's BATE suffered their second consecutive defeat in the new season. Viktor Goncharenko's team, after the setback in the Super Cup, also lost the starting match of the national championship away to Minsk 0:1 (Razin, 76). Minsk is coached this season by Vadim Skripchenko, who previously worked in BATE's coaching staff. Bobruisk's Belshina won against Brest footballers in Zhlobin – 3:1 (Bliznyuk, 6, 90+2, Skavysh, 69; Matyukhevich, 4). Gennady Bliznyuk, who scored a brace, has now scored 100 goals in Belarusian championship matches. In addition, the first goal of the 22nd Belarusian championship was scored in this game, with Brest player Alexander Matyukhevich being its author. In Khoyniki, Grodno's Neman defeated Mozyr's Slavia with the same score of 3:1 (Savitsky, 12, Krivobok, 16, 68; Volkov, 65). -0-