Slutsk began the competition on a high after thrashing Slavia-Mozyr 3-1 in their opening match. Artyom Serdyuk scored a second-half brace after Soslan Takulov had cancelled Andrey Chukhley’s opener from the spot one-minute from the break. But the Vitaliy Pavlov-coached side were beaten 0-1 at home by Dinamo Brest in their next game.