Fixtures and Results >  SEASON-2014

FC BATE — Shakhtyor

According to the tradition the first game of the championship began with flag raising ceremony, which was performed by the captains of the team Vitali Radzionau and Aliaksandr Yurevich, who played for BATE last season.

BATE had Ryhor Filipenka missing as he had to serve the two game suspension from the previous season. Vitali Haiduchyk took his position in the centre of defense.

BATE were more active in the starting ten minutes, creating several good opportunities. They grabbed their first corner in 2014 season much earlier than the opponents and created a couple of good chances. Aliaksandr Karnitski made a good run down the left flank, but the shoot was missing. FC Shakhtyor made a couple of approaches to BATE's half, but with no danger for Germans Māliņš. And the Yellow-Blues could have broken the deadlock after an amazing Dzmitry Baha free kick. Kotenko made a nice save for the ball to hit the bar.

After 30 minutes BATE played even more aggressively. The home side did not expect that and started to foul too much. Matveichik got a fair yellow card for a dangerous jump into Filip Mladenović.

BATE started the second half with even more determination and commitment and rushed forward. But as it sometimes happens, the home side scored. Yurevich made an easy cross into the box with no Shakthyor players at all. But Māliņš failed to catch the ball and it jumped into the goal.

Right after that Aliaksandr Valadzko wasted a fantastic opportunity. Sasha received the ball in the middle of the box, but failed to shoot on target.

But that was not the situation when luck was totally not on BATE's side. Quickly Haiduchyk, Māliņš and Paliakou were too careless passing the ball near their own goal, and were covered by the opponents. The goalkeeper had to clear the ball for a throw in. Shakhtyor did it extremely quickly and Edhar Aliakhnovich had to foul to prevent a goal. The result of the foul was a red card and a penalty.

Osipenko was too self-confident taking the spot kick and missed the target narrowly and the score did not change

Aliaksandr Yermakovich made quite sensible changes. He sent Anri Khagush into the pitch to restore the back four, and then added momentum to BATE attacks by switching on Aliaksandr Paulau and Mikalai Sihnevich to the game.

The last 15 minutes was very nervous. BATE lacked final pass to equalise, but nevertheless did quite well in the defence. The Yellow-Blues were determined to equalise and did a lot to do it. But another unlucky episode solved the fate of the match. Māliņš was not quick clearing the ball from the box, and Rios covered him to send the second goal into the net.

Let's hope that the first home match for BATE next Saturday will bring BATE more luck.

Aliaksandr YERMAKOVICH (FC BATE):
- There is not much to comment on. The game could have gone the other way had we not conceded this silly goal. I think we gave the win as a gift to the opponents. I have to congratulate FC Shakhtyor. And we will get ready for Matchday 2. We will try to bounce back after this loss in front of our crowd.

Sergei BOROVSKI (FC Shakhtyor Soligorsk):
- The first goal changed the game for sure. The motivation rises when the team is one goal up. I would like to thank my guys for the game. It is good we scored the second goal as well, although the opponents had just ten players on the pitch. Now the attitude of the players is important for me. We'll see in autumn what we will have.

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№	Player	Substitutions	G	P	PG	PNS	GC	ПП	ОП		О
30	Māliņš G.						1		1		4.4
3	Haiduchyk V.	74'									4.8
13	Sihnevich M.	74'									4.4
7	Karnitski A.										4.3
8	Valadzko A.										4.9
9	Aleksiyevich I.	64'									4.7
17	Paulau A.	64'									4.8
10	Krivets S.	64'									5.3
14	Khagush A.	64'									4.7
20	Radzivonau V.										4.5
22	Mladenović F.										4.6
23	Aliakhnovich E.										4.8
25	Baha D.										5
33	Paliakou D.										4.8

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