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BATE — Neman

Belarusian Cup restart at Borisov Arena was successful for the Yellow-Blues. The home side were definitely better in the game against FC Neman Grodno and earned a fair win, although could have scored more than one goal.

Captain in the line-up
In comparison with the Supercup game BATE coaching staff made just one change. The Yellow-Blues skipper Dzmitry Likhtarovich took over from youngster Yauheni Yablonski. BATE legend proved to be of worth not only as a defensive figure but also as a creator of a couple fantastic opportunities up front.

First half: Dzmitry Baha header
BATE were a dominant side from the very first seconds of the game. Neman had to defend with all of its personnel and barely crossed the centre line. The Yellow-Blues had all the possession and territory they could and were quite close to success several times, but goalkeeper saved Aliaksandr Karnitski's shots, and Vitali Radzionau and Ihar Stasevich failed to hit the target.

Dzmitry Baha was the closest to a goal after a cross from the right side but failed to find the net after a blunder by Neman goalkeeper Vasiliuchek.

But Dzima managed to break the deadlock a couple of minutes before the break heading the ball into the far corner. That was BATE's first official goal of the season.

Right after that Aliaksandr Karnitski scored the second goal but was flagged offside.

Second half: BATE dominance
Neither the goal, nor the break influenced the scenario of the second half. After the returning from the dressing rooms the teams continued to press with a lot of effort and the opponents had to defend with all players behind the ball.

Nevertheless, the Grodno side managed to learn the lesson from the first half and looked a bit more impressive, although BATE coaching staff tried to bring in freshness into the attacks sending Maksim Valadzko and Aliaksei Rios into the pitch.

BATE attacked up to the very last minute but failed to use numerous set-pieces opportunity. Thus the fate of the encounter will be decided in the second leg in Grodno.

Aliaksandr YERMAKOVICH (FC BATE Head Coach):
- That was a true cup game. We knew what the opponent would be very committed and show good fighting spirit. We could not have afforded losing tackles. We wanted to score a quick goal, but unfortunately failed to do it and started to make too many mistakes up front. We thought set-pieces would help, and we managed to score with one of them. This is always hard to play against such a numerous defence. But the bottomline is that we scored and managed to get an important clean sheet. Now everything will be decided in Grodno.

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№	Player	Substitutions	G	P	PG	PNS	GC	ПП	ОП		О
16	Chernik S.										7.9
2	Likhtarovich D.	68'									7.3
5	Yablonski Y.	68'									7.1
7	Karnitski A.										7
15	Zhaunerchyk M.										7.7
19	Milunović N.										8.8
20	Radzivonau V.										7.7
22	Stasevich I.	78'		1							8
17	Rios A.	78'									7
25	Mladenović F.										8.3
33	Paliakou D.										8
55	Baha D.		1								7.7
62	Hardzeichuk M.	63'									7.1
42	Valadzko M.	63'									7.1

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