Premium Picks Weekly Shakhtyor Karagandy - BATE 2013-07-23 - 15:30 Pick: 2 Odds: 1.82 Bookie: FortunaWin Stake: 6/10 Second game between BATE Borisov and Shakhtar Karagandy for the second qualifying round of the Champions League. First game ended with Shakhtar win away to BATE with the score of 0:1, in a game where the hosts had the possesion of the game but Shakhtar Karagandy played full defense and scored to one of the few opportunities they created. Shakhtar Karagandy lost 1:3 at home against Ordabasy last Friday for the league of Kazakhstan. The qualifiers of the Champions League seems that costing them as before the first game they also lost points in the league, stayed at 1-1 against K. Almaty, and now they are five points behind the third position in the league they are out of any title scenarios. Their head coach Viktor Kumykov stated that their roster do not have depth and there is no equally replacements for key players, that’s why he can not rest his team without causing damage of points to the league. Shakhtar Karagandy is expected to play with the same defensive tactics like the first game, with five defenders in order to keep the clean sheet. They have no problems ahead of today’s game, as Armenian winger Gevorg Ghazaryan is now eligible to play. BATE Borisov suffered a shock result to the first match, in a game where they lacked of creativity and failed to break the solid defense of Karagandy. According to the match reports they were slow and predictable but also had lot of complaints from the referre and they are hoping for a different game today as the Scottish referee in the first game allowed some very hard play which served the play of Karagandy with enough fouls to spoil the pace of the game. Last Friday BATE Borisov won 3-1 at home against Dnepr Mogilev for the league of Belarus and approached leading Shakhtyor Soligorsk to four points and they completed eight consecutive games unbeaten. They played with several substitutes in the starting lineup and their head coach Viktor Goncharenko stressed that passion and aggression should serve as a message and example for the qualification. Midfielder Dmitri Baga, striker Dmitri Mozolevski, midfielder Pavel Nekhajchik, midfielder Aleksandr Volodjko and attacking midfielder Aleksandr Hleb are all out of the squad due to injuries. I think that BATE Borisov will have a different game today will qualify. For me it is hard to see a team with such a rich roster to be out of Champions League so early. Remember the last season, where BATE made a mistake at home against Debrecen, and then at aeay demolished the hungarian team!
Posted on: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 10:11:18 +0000