Preview: Shakhtar Donetsk v BATE

• Shakhtar host BATE two weeks after beating the Belarusian side 7-0 in Borisov
• Mircea Lucescu says his Shakhtar team "don't expect an easy game"
• The Romanian coach believes the visitors will be "eager to restore their reputation" • Shakhtar are second in Group H, two points ahead of third-placed BATE
• BATE's Aleksandr Yermakovich insists his side will "at least put up a fight" this time

Possible lineups
Shakhtar: Pyatov; Srna, Ordets, Rakitskiy, Shevchuk; Stepanenko, Fernando; Douglas Costa, Alex Teixeira, Taison; Luiz Adriano.
• Out: Kryvtsov (ankle), Kucher (unspecified)
• Doubtful: Márcio Azevedo (knee), Ilsinho (illness)

BATE: Chernik; Khagush, Polyakov, Tubić, Mladenović; A Volodko, Karnitski, Likhtarovich; Gordeychuk, Signevich, M Volodko.
• Out: Filipenko (hamstring)

Mircea Lucescu, Shakhtar coach
It doesn't matter who we play and what the result of the last game was if it's the UEFA Champions League. This is the most prestigious tournament and we are the only club involved from Ukraine. We will play for ourselves but also for the coefficient of Ukraine. We need three points.

We don't expect an easy game after the 7-0 win. Each match is a different story and BATE must be supremely motivated after that disappointing result. I'm sure they will be fully focused and will be eager to restore their reputation, so it's very important for us not to listen to talk about us winning the match 3-0 or 4-0 or whatever. We have to keep our concentration and motivation and remember that BATE are a strong side who deservedly beat Athletic on matchday two.

We lost two central defenders, Serhiy Kryvtsov and Olexandr Kucher, to injuries but every team has problems. What we need to do is to play our natural game and get three points. I'd like to believe a lot of fans will come to the stadium to support us, which will help us to win, and we will try to thank them with a good performance.

Aleksandr Yermakovich, BATE coach
It's really hard for us to compete with clubs who are better in many departments, but we don't consider ourselves outsiders in the group. We'll see at the end of the group stage what we achieve. We are going to at least put up a fight against Shakhtar and play some quality football.

There is no one recipe for recovering from a loss such as what we had on matchday three. Of course, we analysed that match very closely and saw how many mistakes we made. Now we hope to avoid them at the Arena Lviv. I can't say we didn't know about Shakhtar's ability to mount fast attacks before the first game, but it's one thing to know about something and another to counteract it.

Weekend results
FC Metalurh Donetsk 2-1 Shakhtar (Morozyuk 72, Lazić 75; Srna 82)
FC Dinamo Minsk 1-2 BATE (Nikolić 90pen; Khagush 69, Polyakov 74)

Form guide (all competitions)
BATE: WDLWWW
Shakhtar: LWWWLD

Match facts
• BATE captain Dmitri Likhtarovich has made 91 appearances in UEFA club competition, one shy of the Belarusian record set by which player? Find out in our extensive match background.