Admir Mehmedi finishes off wonderful team move for Bayer Leverkusen goal

Three second-half goals secured Bayer Leverkusen a 4-1 victory over BATE Borisov and a winning start into UEFA Champions League’ s Group E on Wednesday.

Olympique Lyonnais marked their return to the Champions League with a 1-1 draw against Belgian side, Gent.

“We also started to allow too many mistakes in the midfield and were not quick enough”.

BATE may be European minnows but their form is been strong in 2015, having lost just three times in 33 matches, while goalkeeper Sergei Chernik has kept 14 clean sheets in 18 league appearances.

Hakan Calhanoglu restored Leverkusen’s lead with another deflected goal two minutes after the break, before Hernandez struck.

“Chicharito” has a wealth of experience on the European stage for both United and Real Madrid, for who he scored the victor in last season’s Champions League quarter-final against Atletico Madrid while on loan from Old Trafford.

BATE will next play Roma and Leverkusen will face Barcelona on 29 September.

While this is a solid Bayer Leverkusen team that have added quality up front with Javier Hernandez joining from Manchester United on deadline day.

“It’s not a serious injury, but a very deep bruising and it will be close as to whether he makes it on Sunday”, said Schmidt ahead of Leverkusen’s away match at Bundesliga leaders Dortmund.

Leverkusen missed several guilt edged chances to retake the lead in the first half, the best of which fell to Mehmedi, who found himself one-on-one with the BATE keeper after a magnificent Karim Bellarabi throughball, but somehow slid the ball just wide of the right post.

Admir Mehmedi opened the scoring with the outside of his boot in the fourth minute after a botched clearance from Ilya Aleksievich, nine minutes before Serbian defender Nemanja Milunovic drew the visitors level with a deflected header.