Mentor of the Belarusian team Alexander Ermakovich commented on the duel of his charges against Alexandria.

After a scoring draw of 1: 1 at home, the Ukrainian team had all chances to make it to the group stage of the Europa League by leading in the first half of the away match against BATE.

Nevertheless, the Belarusians managed to turn the game in a few moments when midfielder Mirko Ivanich made a double from 69 to 73 minutes and set the final score in the match - 2: 1 in favor of the hosts.

After the fight, the head coach of BATE Alexander Ermakovich did not hide his satisfaction with the result, while noting the qualitative game of the opponent.

"For us, of course, the match was a success," Yermakovich began. "His script was almost like a movie: an unfortunate start and a happy ending. It was very difficult to enter the game ".

"In the first half," Alexandria "dominated the field, created more moments and exerted more pressure.

I am very glad that we managed to reverse the course of such an unsuccessfully developing match. The team showed the character of ".

"I'm just proud of the actions of the players in the second half. Of course, we are very satisfied. In a difficult time to win and go to the group is worth a lot, "- said a specialist in an interview with the official website of BATE.

The team from Borisov learns their rivals for the LE group at 14:00 at 14:00 today.