Btw, BATE have 7 non-Belarussian players but only 2 of them are starters (2 Russian defenders).
From the players from Belarus, only 3 played for the Belarus NT and NONE of them are starters for the National team.
Having in mind that Belarus doesn't have a strong NT, you can imagine the quality of these players if they can't even make it to play for their national team.
I've seen them against Levski and it was a miracle how BATE made it to the CL groups. Levski were so dominant, missing chance after chance, missing a penalty, but they were as unlucky as we were against Catania on Wednesday.
And have in mind that Levski weren't even Bulgarian champions but they played CLQ only because CSKA Sofia was disqualified. Also, this team Levski has now is one of the weakest they had in last years. The strongest Levski (the one from 2-3 years ago) played in CL in 2006/07 and they finished the group stages with 0 points and goal difference 1:17.
It will be a miracle if we don't beat this team. Actually, if we don't beat them i'll go as far as asking for Ranieri to be sacked.
If i have to compare BATE to some other team i'd say....slightly weaker than Artmedia.