Fixtures and Results >  SEASON-2014/15

BATE — Shakhtyor

Belarusian Cup final 2015 attracted a record season attendance of 9100. This was due to a quite a brisk headline featuring FC BATE, the country's biggest club, and their archrivals from FC Shakthyor Soligorsk. The Yellow-Blues proved to be the upper side smashing the Miners 4-1 scoring all the goals in the second half.

The first half was the time of equal opportunities misused by both sides. BATE had good chances in shots by Mikhail Hardzeichuk saved by Bushma. Gomel relied mostly on counters, but failed to produce a real threat in front of Chernik's goal. The Miners lacked the last pass drastically, while BATE wasted most of massive attacks shooting wide and up.

It was not until after the break when the deadlock was broken. Mikhail Hardzeichuk unlucky in the first half managed to drill the ball past Bushma early in the second half. His left-foot finish was fantastic and well prepared by Vitali Radzionau.

BATE's captain in that game Radzionau doubled the lead after another brilliant attack by the Yello-Blues involving Yauheni Yablonski, Mikhail Hardzeichuk and Ihar Stasevich. All the captain had to do is to head the ball into the empty net.

And soon it became 3-0. This time a rebound was headed into Bushma's net by Aliaksandr Karnitski. That was a result of another quick attack and a shot by Maksim Valadzko who tried to score really hard this evening but failed.

Instead another substitute Mikalai Sihnevich produced a true beauty, volleying the ball above the goalkeeper from outside the box. That happened after Shakhtyor scored a consolation goal.

Thus BATE managed to win their 19th overall title and 3rd Belarusian Cup, and will face FC Minsk next week in the next national championship match.

Aliaksandr YERMAKOVICH (FC BATE Head Coach):

- The trophy is the most important thing. We won it for the first time since 2010 and this is great. The first half was a tough one. Both teams had good opportunities. It is really important to score in such games. Then you get a huge psychological advantage. We are happy we scored this important goal in the second half and regained self-confidence. And after the second goal we thoroughly controlled the match. I would like to congratulate all our supporters.

As a coach now I won all the Belarusian trophies. This is of course great, but the club's achievements are the most important thing. And we are now work to make our 20^th title history.

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№	Player	Substitutions	G	P	PG	PNS	GC	ПП	ОП		О
16	Chernik S.						1				8.5
5	Yablonski Y.										8.5
7	Karnitski A.		1								8.6
15	Zhaunerchyk M.										8.3
19	Milunović N.										7.8
20	Radzivonau V.	71'	1	1							8.6
13	Sihnevich M.	71'	1								9
22	Stasevich I.	76'		1							8.9
17	Rios A.	76'									7.5
25	Mladenović F.										8.4
33	Paliakou D.			1							8.5
55	Baha D.	46'									7.5
42	Valadzko M.	46'									8.6
62	Hardzeichuk M.		1								9

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