Wednesday September 19, 2012 Group Phase: Group F Finished Grand Stade Lille Métropole

Lille OSC 1 - 3 BATE Borisov

  • Chedjou 60’
  • Volodko 6’
  • Rodionov 20’
  • Olekhnovich 43’

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  1. Champions League - Matchpack: Lille v BATE Borisov

    Champions League - Matchpack: Lille v BATE Borisov

    Team news and quotes ahead of the Champions League group stage match between Lille and BATE Borisov at the Grand Stade Lille Métropole. More

  • Live Commentary

    Time:90'
    • Lille OSC
    • BATE Borisov
    • 90+3 And that's it. Deserved win for the visitors - their first in the Champions League group stage takes them top of Group F.
    • 90+1' BATE have been superb throughout and thoroughly deserve this win.
    • 89' Three minues of added time for the visitors to record a famous first victory in Europe's elite competition.
    • 87' A sense of resignation around the ground now – this game was vital to their hopes of getting out of this group. Looks like a battle for Europa now.
    • 85' That stats tell the story of the second half: 20 shots to 4 in favour of the hosts. But the visitors still lead.
    • 83' Debuchy, who has impressed, is replaced by Sidibé. Odd change there.
    • 81' Hleb leads a break but thrashes his effort into the side netting – that would have settled it.
    • 80' Kalou works some space down the left, and slips a ball across the box with Balmont to meet it. His effort is low and hard but Harbunow has the measure of it.
    • 79' He whips the ball up and over the wall but it is too close to Harbunow, who pushes it out for a throw. Decent punch.
    • 78' Payet is felled on the edge of the box, just right of centre. He is over it.
    • 77' Digne breaks down the left and finds Roux in the box but his effort is wide. It was on the half turn, though.
    • 75' Lille break again but the ball had gone out despite the best efforts of Mendes. Goal kick.
    • 73' Kalou almost gets to a kind break of the ball but his effort is blocked. The corner evades everyone, even Kalou when it may have been easier to score. The home side claim a hand ball in the resulting melee but the referee waves the claims away.
    • 71' Yellow for Polyakov for time wasting. Twenty or so to go.
    • 69' The hosts work the ball to the right and then switch it to the back post where Mendes looks to sneak one in at the near post. Decent stop. Then Payet draws a save from the keeper with an effort from distance.
    • 67' Sivakov for Likhtarovich. Straight swap in midfield.
    • 65' Every BATE player behind the ball.
    • 63' Mendes exchanges passes to work space inside the box but he is just ushered off of it as the substitute looks to shoot.
    • 61' The visitors drop deeper and deeper and invite pressure. Payet takes aim but his effort is always rising.
    • 60' GOOAL!! They’re back in it, the home side. Chedjou gets ahead of his man and heads the ball in off the crossbar from a corner. This will be interesting now. Huge change in atmosphere immediately. 1-3.
    • 59' Kalou finds Roux, who charges forward and wins a corner.
    • 57' BATE are utilising their keeper and the full dimensions of the pitch as they continue to keep the ball well and out of reach of their hosts.
    • 56' Hleb breaks into the box and is almost certainly hacked down by Chedjou but the referee turns away the appeals.
    • 54' Yellow cards a plenty following a late challenge that sparked a melee. Roux and Pavlov, it looks like.
    • 52' Debuchy moves forward at will and lets go of a dipping shot that whistles past the post.
    • 50' Kalou rises well but heads Debuchy’s cross wide of the target.
    • 49' Literally, there has been a seismic shift in the territorial advantage.
    • 48' This is a far better opening from the hosts. They are giving away a foul here or there but it is much improved.
    • 46 Mendes and Roux for Martin and De Melo as the hosts get the half underway.
    • 45+1 The Lille fans are not shy in venting their frustrations as the referee blows the whistle for half time.
    • 44' This is an unbelievable score and performance.
    • 43' GOOOOAL! Olekhnovich breaks the offside trap – a pretty poor excuse for one, actually – but Landreau makes a good stop. The rebound falls to Olekhnovich, just inside the box and he makes absolutely no mistake second time of asking.
    • 41' Lille just can’t seem to sustain any sort of pressure.
    • 40' BATE continue to look comfortable. They remain composed but there has been a marked increase in the hosts' intensity. If BATE can see this out to half-time it would be huge psychologically.
    • 38' Helb loses the ball and Payet moves forward at pace. His shot is blocked though for a corner. The visitors deal with the whipped delivery quite comfortably.
    • 36' Debuchy finds Payet inside the box but once again he dithers and before he can shoot he is crowded out.
    • 35' Kalou finds Payet but he can’t get the ball out of his feet and it is cleared.
    • 34' Payet whips in a corner but Gorbunov rises to punch clear.
    • 33' Debuchy cuts in from the right and drags an effort wide from just outside the box.
    • 31' The hosts really need to up the intensity here if they are to haul themselves back into this.
    • 29' Yellow for Olekhnovich for hauling down Digne. Payet delivers, Gorbunov flaps at it but Martin takes a fraction too long to muster a shot and it is blocked by Olekhnovich.
    • 27' BATE keep the ball well following a loose ball from Debuchy. They move the ball back and forth between midfield and defence. Lille really need to put more pressure on the ball.
    • 25' BATE really do have the measure of their hosts on the break.
    • 24' This could be a first ever win in the group stages for the team from Belarus.
    • 23' Digne beats his man and whips in a great cross but it is fractionally too high for Kalou at the far post.
    • 22' Suspicion of offside there. Rodionov went a fraction early but still a great move.
    • 20' GOAL. INCREDIBLE. What a counter. Hleb breaks from midfield, beats a man, slips a pass to Pavlov, who squares for Rodionov to slot home. 2-0.
    • 19' Balmont wins a free-kick down the right. Payet’s delivery is poor; he gets a second chance and this time his delivery is better but no one had gambled. Keeper collects.
    • 18' The hosts’ tempo is a little laboured thus far. Debuchy’s cross has far too much on it and Harbunow claims.
    • 16' The visitors elect a cute training ground chipped ruse but to little avail. Better off shooting there.
    • 15' Lille have been sloppy thus far. They have lost the ball far too often and the latest errant pass ends with Chedjou bringing down Rodionov and the visitors have a free-kick in a dangerous area, 35 yards out.
    • 14' The game has a little more composure to it now.
    • 13' BATE’s line-up suggested a containment job but they have done anything but yet.
    • 12' Payet has been bright thus far. He cuts in from the left and finds Debuchy, whose shot is going wide but Harbunow turns it further wide for a corner. BATE clear.
    • 11' Dimitri Payet is in the booked for a dive.
    • 10' Martin almost capitalises on a lazy clearance but his touch is heavy and Radkov intercepts.
    • 8' What have Lille got now?
    • 7' That was slightly against the run of play but it was a beauty.
    • 6' GOOOOAL!! BATE take the lead with a beauty. Aleksandr Volodko receives the ball with his back to goal but is given time and space to measure a shot from 25 yards and it flies over the desperate dive of Landreau.
    • 5' Payet works some space down the left and swings a decent ball to Kalou at the back post. With time and space he takes it down and stings the palms of Harbunow. He really should have done better there from no more than ten yards out.
    • 3' Frenetic start here with little composure shown from either side. Balmont goes through Bordachev and has a talking to from the referee.
    • 2' BATE immediately go long but the hosts come straight back at them. Martin leads the break, overruns it but charges down the attempted clearance. The ball kicks up and skews off toward the BATE goal. It is a footrace between Kalou and the BATE defender. It is cleared but that was close.
    • 1' Handshakes exchanged, coin tossed, BATE take the kick-off.
    • - Referee Marcin Borski leads out the teams with “Die Meister, Die Besten, Les grandes equips, The champions” pumping out of the speakers and that means we’re moments from kick-off.
    • 19:40 Viktor Goncharenko: "Lille are a very good team and we have to be aware of that. They have not had a great start to the Ligue 1 season but they will raise their game for the Champions League. I hope the players will play with free spirit and without pressure. We are very organised and if we play our best football we can match anybody in the group."
    • 19:35 Managers quotes: Rudi Garcia: "We've conceded at least one goal per game since the league started. But in terms of commitment and team spirit I have nothing to reproach the players for. We just need to try and push forward more, we need to be more consistent.''
    • 19:30 BATE: Alexander Hleb is an obvious one. He played for BATE before heading off to Stuttgart at the turn of the century and at 31 still has lots to offer. But key to Hleb’s success is the role that Dzmitry Likhtarovic plays for the team, he is the captain but also the holding midfielder and will provide vital cover for the rest of the side.
    • 19:25 Players to watch: Lille: Marvin Martin and fellow summer signing Salomon Kalou. Both signed in the wake of Eden Hazard’s summer transfer to Chelsea. They can be both scintillating and frustrating in equal measure but will be key if Rudi Garcia’s men are to progress this season.
    • 19:20 This will be BATE’s third crack at navigating the group stages but they’ll have to improve on a record of seven defeats and five draws in their previous 12 Champions League games if they have any hope of at least reaching the Europa league.
    • 19;15 Lille’s best Champions League performance was a spot in the last 16 in the 2006/07 season, and they’ll be looking for a strong start in a group that also includes last season’s runners-up Bayern Munich and Valencia of Spain.
    • 19:10 This is a first competitive meeting between these clubs with both looking to improve on last season’s performance in Europe’s elite competition. Both were eliminated at the group stage having finished bottom of their respective groups.
    • 19:05 BATE's versatile midfielder Dmitri Braga has been ruled out with a hamstring injury, but otherwise manager Viktor Goncharenko has no significant absentees.
    • 19:00 BATE's versatile midfielder Dmitri Braga has been ruled out with a hamstring injury, but otherwise manager Viktor Goncharenko has no significant absentees.
    • 18:55 David Rozehnal is out having missed the draw against Troyes, but right-back Mathieu Debuchy is back along with Marko Baša. Marvin Martin suffered a knock at the weekend but has recovered in time to start.
    • 18:50 Lille: Landreau; Debuchy, Baša, Chedjou, Digne; Balmont , Mavuba; Payet, Martin, Kalou; De Melo: Subs: Elana , Gueye, Mendes, Sidibé, Pedretti, Béria, Roux /// BATE Gorbunov; Volodko, Radkov, Simić, Polyakov; Likhtarovich, Olekhnovich; Bordachev, Hleb, Pavlov; Rodionov. Subs: Gutor, Yurevich, Kontsevoi, Bressan, Mozolevski, Filipenko, Sivakov.
    • 18:45 Hello and welcome to our LIVE coverage from Champions League match day one, where Lille welcome BATE Borisov to the Grand Stade Lille Métropole in Group F.

  • Summary

    • 81' Hleb leads a break but thrashes his effort into the side netting – that would have settled it.
    • 80' Kalou works some space down the left, and slips a ball across the box with Balmont to meet it. His effort is low and hard but Harbunow has the measure of it.
    • 79' He whips the ball up and over the wall but it is too close to Harbunow, who pushes it out for a throw. Decent punch.
    • 73' Kalou almost gets to a kind break of the ball but his effort is blocked. The corner evades everyone, even Kalou when it may have been easier to score. The home side claim a hand ball in the resulting melee but the referee waves the claims away.
    • 69' The hosts work the ball to the right and then switch it to the back post where Mendes looks to sneak one in at the near post. Decent stop. Then Payet draws a save from the keeper with an effort from distance.
    • 60' GOOAL!! They’re back in it, the home side. Chedjou gets ahead of his man and heads the ball in off the crossbar from a corner. This will be interesting now. Huge change in atmosphere immediately. 1-3.
    • 56' Hleb breaks into the box and is almost certainly hacked down by Chedjou but the referee turns away the appeals.
    • 52' Debuchy moves forward at will and lets go of a dipping shot that whistles past the post.
    • 50' Kalou rises well but heads Debuchy’s cross wide of the target.
    • 43' GOOOOAL! Olekhnovich breaks the offside trap – a pretty poor excuse for one, actually – but Landreau makes a good stop. The rebound falls to Olekhnovich, just inside the box and he makes absolutely no mistake second time of asking.
    • 40' BATE continue to look comfortable. They remain composed but there has been a marked increase in the hosts' intensity. If BATE can see this out to half-time it would be huge psychologically.
    • 36' Debuchy finds Payet inside the box but once again he dithers and before he can shoot he is crowded out.
    • 22' Suspicion of offside there. Rodionov went a fraction early but still a great move.
    • 20' GOAL. INCREDIBLE. What a counter. Hleb breaks from midfield, beats a man, slips a pass to Pavlov, who squares for Rodionov to slot home. 2-0.
    • 6' GOOOOAL!! BATE take the lead with a beauty. Aleksandr Volodko receives the ball with his back to goal but is given time and space to measure a shot from 25 yards and it flies over the desperate dive of Landreau.
    • 5' Payet works some space down the left and swings a decent ball to Kalou at the back post. With time and space he takes it down and stings the palms of Harbunow. He really should have done better there from no more than ten yards out.
    • 18:50 Lille: Landreau; Debuchy, Baša, Chedjou, Digne; Balmont , Mavuba; Payet, Martin, Kalou; De Melo: Subs: Elana , Gueye, Mendes, Sidibé, Pedretti, Béria, Roux /// BATE Gorbunov; Volodko, Radkov, Simić, Polyakov; Likhtarovich, Olekhnovich; Bordachev, Hleb, Pavlov; Rodionov. Subs: Gutor, Yurevich, Kontsevoi, Bressan, Mozolevski, Filipenko, Sivakov.

Team Line-up & Ratings

  • Lille OSC

    Manager: Rudi Garcia

  • BATE Borisov

    Manager: Viktor Goncharenko

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    • Player Y! Users Expert My Rating
      Goalkeeper
      3.5 5
      Defenders
      Substitution Out85′ 4.2 7
      3.2 6
      Goal 4.6 6
      Yellow Card 4.4 7
      Midfielders
      3.9 5
      Yellow Card 5.1 5
      4.8 6
      Substitution Out45′ 4.1 5
      Yellow Card 4.8 5
      Strikers
      Substitution Out45′ 3.6 5
      Subs
      Substitution In45′ 4.7 6
      Substitution In45′ Yellow Card 5.3 5
      Substitution In85′ 4.3 5
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      Goalkeeper
      7.1 7
      Defenders
      Goal 8.5 8
      7.6 7
      7.6 6
      Yellow Card 7.5 6
      Midfielders
      Goal Yellow Card 8 6
      Substitution Out66′ 7.7 6
      7.5 6
      Yellow Card Substitution Out80′ 7.5 6
      Strikers
      Goal Yellow Card Substitution Out89′ 8.4 6
      8.1 8
      Subs
      Substitution In89′ 5.7 5
      Substitution In66′ 6 5
      Substitution In80′ 5.3 5

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