BATE BORISOV HAVE had the better of tonight’s Champions League qualifier against Dundalk in Belarus so far, but the hosts are probably fortunate to still have 11 men on the field.
Maksim Zhavnerchik seemingly caught Dundalk captain Stephen O’Donnell with an elbow on the half-hour mark, but the BATE defender escaped with just a yellow card from Ukrainian referee Evgen Aranovskiy.
(Click here to view a video, including replays, of the incident from eir Sport)
Daryl Horgan and Robbie Benson have both gone close for Dundalk, but they’ve mostly been under severe pressure against the side who eliminated them last season.
Nevertheless, it’s scoreless at half-time in the first leg of the third-round qualifier at the Borisov Arena.
