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FC BATE — Torpedo-BelAZ

As usual Borisov-Zhodino derby was the climax of the matchday at the Belarusian Vysshaya Liga. BATE coaching staff headed by Aliaksandr Yermakovich decided to give some rest to the players that were on international duty with the Belarusian national team. Rotation helped Andrii Iakovlev and Nemanja Tubić to appear in the pitch.

But already after 19 minutes of play Yermakovich had to take Tubić away after the Serbian defender collided into BATE goalkeeper Siarhei Chernik and an opponent. The injury received in the incident prevented the defender to remain in the game. Dzianis Paliakou took his place beside Ryhor Filipenka in the centre of defence.

BATE managed to grab the lead early in the game when Torpedo fouled on the Yellow-Blues captain Dzmitry Likhtarovich in the box. Serbian defender Filip Mladenović converted the penalty in style with goalkeeper not even daring to jump into either of the corner.

After the goal the Borisovites continued to control the game creating several good chances, but Vitali Radzionau and Andrei Iakovlev missed good chances. And Torpedo managed to equalise using their only good opportunity of the first half when Kozeka netted a cross by Burko.

At the beginning of the second half Zhodino side were a bit more active, but BATE regained the initiative quite quickly. The flow of attacks on Pavel Chasnouski's goal was quite intense, but the Yellow-Blues were bitterly unlucky. And the referee made a lot of mistakes including not giving a second penalty for a handball by Levitski.

As the end of the match got closer, the Borisovites attacked with increasing intensity. Andrii Iakovlev turned out to be the protagonist of three amazing goalscoring chances, but BATE's No.77 failed to pass Chasnouski.

As a result the Yellow-Blues earned one point against a strong opponent before travelling to Portugal to face Porto in UCL Group stage Matchday 1 on Wednesday.

Igor KRIUSHENKO (FC Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino):
- That was a good intense game. I would like to thank the guys. In spite of the early goal the performed quite well. The penalty earned by Seliava just shows the lack of experience of the player. In the second half BATE put everything on attack. But both goalkeeper and defence were rockstone. We just lacked a bit of speed to score on a counter attack.

Aliakandr YERMAKOVICH (FC BATE Borisov):
- The game had much in common with our last meeting here at Borisov-Arena. We started with a penalty goal. But then we failed to deliver quality. I did not like our first half at all. I think it is more a psychological point: we scored a quick goal and thought it would be easy. After the break we showed some of football we are aiming. Andrii Iakovlev had a lot of opportunities. But on the whole I think the score is fair. We underestimated the opponent to some extent in the first half. And football punished us for that.

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№	Player	Substitutions	G	P	PG	PNS	GC	ПП	ОП		О
16	Chernik S.						1				8.2
2	Likhtarovich D.	62'		1							8.5
62	Hardzeichuk M.	62'									7.6
8	Valadzko A.										8.1
9	Aleksiyevich I.										7.9
14	Khagush A.										8.6
17	Paulau A.	79'									5.8
13	Sihnevich M.	79'									6.6
20	Radzivonau V.										7.6
21	Filipenka R.										8.1
22	Mladenović F.		1		1						8.7
55	Tubić N.	19'									7.7
33	Paliakou D.	19'									7.6
77	Iakovlev A.										7.6

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