Arsenal and Slavia Mozyr met in the Premier League's Regular Season round 18 on 14 August 2026, and Slavia took the points with a 1:3 victory. The visitors needed the penalty goal from D. Antilevskiy in the nineteenth minute to get ahead, but it was the second half that decided everything. Arsenal pulled one back through K. Chernook in the seventieth minute, but Slavia responded twice in quick succession.
The penalty arrived after a mistake in the box, and Antilevskiy made sure of it. Then Arsenal equalised in the seventieth minute when K. Chernook found the net, and for a moment it looked like the hosts might salvage something. But A. Solovey scored in the seventy-third and again in the eighty-fourth to seal the result. By then Arsenal were chasing the game rather than shaping it.
And here's the thing — the statistics tell you where the balance lay. Slavia Mozyr held possession for 61 per cent and had six shots on target compared to Arsenal's one. The hosts managed only two corners and fired six shots wide, while Slavia kept things tighter with four off target and one blocked. It was a case where the visitors took their chances and Arsenal did not.
Arsenal had already made a change before the break, bringing on I. Vasin in the thirteenth minute, then doubled up at the restart with N. Melnikov and O. Batyshchev. Slavia brought on A. Antilevskiy and Y. Kuznetsov in the fifty-eighth minute, and the fresh legs showed. S. Sazonchik came on in the seventy-eighth minute, and E. Shevchenko in the eighty-ninth as the visitors saw the game out.
To be fair, this result matters more than the scoreline alone. Arsenal sit twelfth with 22 points from 21 games — five wins, seven draws, nine losses — and this adds to a run of defeats that includes losses to Naftan, Minsk, Nemman, and Vitebsk. Slavia Mozyr move up to tenth with 25 points from 20 games, extending a positive streak that began with three wins in four matches.