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Only a few steps separate many teams from reaching the group stage in European competitions. While some hope for a perhaps even first-time participation in the group matches of a European Cup, for many champions of their country especially the qualification for the Europa League only a consolation after leaving the qualifiers for the Champions League.
The encounter between BATE Borisov and FK Sarajevo fits in well with the picture. Both teams claimed the championship title in their country last season, but both failed to qualify for the premier class recently.
While FK Sarajevo has never played in the group stage of an international competition and can therefore make history by qualifying for the Europa League and therefore would be very satisfied, BATE Borisov has been a regular on the international stage in recent years.
Accordingly, the Belorussians have a slightly different expectation and had actually targeted the Champions League, in which they were regularly represented in the recent past. But that’s the way it should be at least the Europa League and after the victory in the first leg, the team from Belarus at home has all the trumps in hand.
Accordingly, in the second leg between BATE Borisov and FK Sarajevo, the prognosis is in the direction of a victory of the internationally experienced home side.
Bate Borisov:
If you take a look at BATE Borisov’s latest results, then you might think that for the moment it could not be any better for Belorussians. Of the last 17 competitive games BATE Borisov lost only one and won 14 – last three in a row.
In the national cup, the club is in the quarter-finals after a 8-1 victory over league rival Torpedo Minsk in the quarter-finals and also in the national championship is the subscription champion on a good path towards the championship title.
At the weekend, BATE Borisov scored all four goals in the 4-1 home win against Energetik BGU on Matchday 17 against Energetik BGU in the first half hour. BATE leader Dinamo Brest remains hot on the heels of the treble, having scored two points but one more game.
The question of whether BATE Borisov will win the 14th consecutive championship title (!) Might have been decided next weekend, as BATE Borisov should have played for Dinamo Brest. However, the game was postponed due to Borisov’s qualifier against Sarajevo.
And if it was said at the beginning that for BATE Borisov at the moment “actually” could not run better, it is because the only defeat in the last 17 competitive matches hurts. She picked up the Belarussian figurehead in Norway at Rosenborg Trondheim. BATE Borisov was eliminated from the Champions League qualifiers by 2-0 in the second leg, despite a 2-1 win in the first leg.
Now, at least, this is the Europa League and even before the first duel between BATE Borisov and FK Sarajevo, the prognosis for a progress of the Belarussians. They have hardly any staff worries in the second leg, so that coach Aleksey Baga will be able to send his best team to the pitch at home. The injured Jahor Filipenka, Nemanja Milic and Anton Saroka have already been missing for several weeks anyway.
At home BATE Borisov is very difficult to defeat anyway. Of the last ten competitive games in the domestic arena, BATE Borisov has won nine – a draw. In six of their last seven home games, the Belarusians scored at least two goals. Accordingly, in the match between BATE Borisov and FK Sarajevo a tip on some goals of the home side is a good option.
FK Sarajevo:
If it was mentioned at the beginning that FK Sarajevo has never reached the group stage of a European competition, then that is correct. However, one should not underestimate that these competitions did not always start with a group phase.
For example, in earlier years Sarajevo had already qualified six times for the main round of an international competition, most recently in 2007.
In the last eleven years Sarajevo was allowed to reach the Champions and the Europa League in eight qualifiers, but always failed. Last season, Atalanta Bergamo were knocked out in the second round when Sarajevo lost 2-0 at home to Italy 2-0 in the first leg, losing 2-0 at home.
While at next opponent BATE Borisov the league match was postponed this weekend, the same was the case with Sarajevo last weekend. The home game against Siroki Brijeg was postponed due to the upcoming match on Thursday.
So the Bosnian double winner of last season after three completed matchdays in this season is still in two wins and a draw and has conceded in his first three league games still no goal. Conversely, always at least two, there were in all three qualifying games, the FK Sarajevo all lost.
After all, the club has also been able to meet in all three games themselves. The fact that the Bosnians would fail in qualifying for the Champions League at Celtic Glasgow (1: 3 at home and 1: 2 away) was foreseeable. Meanwhile, Sarajevo had set a course for the home game against BATE Borisov, but ultimately lacked in precision at the end.
In a largely balanced game (odds ratio 13:13, ball possession ratio 48:52) found only a conclusion of the Bosnians the way to the opponent’s box and this at least the way into it.
Now it will be even more difficult in the second leg, especially as coach Husref Musemic will have to do without defender Amer Dupovac, as well as the two offensive players Amar Rahmanovic and Milos Stanojevic. In the match between BATE Borisov and FK Sarajevo, the odds of winning a away win in the last few days have clearly increased again.
BATE vs FK Sarajevo head to head matches
08.08.19 EL FK Sarajevo BATE 1 : 2