Venue: Borisov Gradski Stadium Thursday, October 1st 2009 Kick-Off:18:00 Subscribe to Sky Now

FC Bate Borisov play host to Everton later this evening in this Europa Cup Fixture, which can be seen Live on Sky Sports with a 6pm (BST) Kick Off Time.

Bate Borisov are a team from Belarus and so far they have had a very good start to their domestic Season having played 4 and won 4. They have managed to score 10 and concede just 4 and their only defeat so far has come in the Europa Cup where they were beaten 2-0 by Benfica in the opening group fixture.

Everton under the guidance of David Moyes have had a rather different start to their domestic league campaign they lost their opening game of the Season and became the only club in the Premiership history to have lost all of their opening games. They quickly recovered from that early slip up though and have since won all of their fixtures including a 4-0 win over AEK Athens in their opening group game.

Everton Team News

Steven Pienaar, Jack Rodwell, Mikel Arteta, Phil Neville, Victor Anichebe and Phil Jagielka will all be missing from the Everton team sheet tonight as they all recover from injuries. Also missing will be Lucas Neill and John Heitinga as both players are ineligible for the game. Louis Saha starts his suspension after being sent off in the AEK Athens game and will also be missing.

Summary

Everton certainly have many first team players missing from their starting lineup tonight in what could be a very tricky encounter. Bate Borisov have never played an english club before and will no doubt of had to watch a few videos to familiarise themselves with the type of play seen each week in the Premiership. However the side from Belarus have had a great start to their Season and remain unbeaten in their domestic league and with home advantage will be quitely confident that they can grab all 3pts here tonight.

Everton have gone three European games without an away win and they certainly look to have been handed a tough game here with so many first team players out and for me the best betting opportunity in this match seems to be taking Bate Borisov on the Asian Handicap +1 at 1.70 with VC Bet.

As for picking a winner of this game I am going to have to side with the Belarus side to just nick this one by the odd goal or two.

Dave's Prediction:

Everton 1-2 Bate Borisov @ 23.00 with BlueSQ