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Shakhtar Donetsk's Luiz Adriano scores his team's seventh goal during the UEFA Champions League group H football match between BATE Borisov and Shakhtar Donetsk at the Borisov Arena in Borisov on October 21, 2014
Champions League nights have come to represent normality for Shakhtar Donetsk in recent years. The reigning Ukrainian champions, making their ninth group-stage appearance in 11 seasons, are certainly used to the rigours of European competition. However, Wednesday evening's Group H encounter against BATE Borisov will be anything but a normal game for the hosts.