Excellent weather in Turkish Belek corresponded to the mood within our team. Despite the defeat in the previous game from Dynamo Moscow, the team maintained a working atmosphere. The fans finally saw Soslan Dzhanaev and Mateo Cassierra in the starting lineup. For the first time after a long break, the goalkeeper and captain of the team have not played since October last year, and the last time we saw Mateo in action was in a December meeting with Krasnodar. Welcome back, guys!
In addition, defender Vanya Drkusic also joined the starting lineup for the first time this year. The remaining positions have not been changed. Vladimir Valentinovich had to do without Artur Yusupov for the second game, whose return to the field we are all looking forward to.

"Bars" started playing ball control from the first minutes. But there were few moments. Krasnodar defended compactly and confidently enough. The game was blown up by a sharp pass from Christian Noboa: Terekhov rolled to the center on Christian from the left, and he threw it into the goalkeeper area with lightning speed. Kirill Stuttered by train past the Kuban defense, the final station of the ball eventually became the gate. Thus, a native of the Krasnodar Territory opened an account in the "Nekubansky" derby. The game with a minimum number of moments continued until the break. The teams left the ground with the score 1-0 in favor of Sochi.

Sochi will play its last match in Turkey on February 18 with Kazakhstan's Kairat. With this game, the "bars" will complete their preparations for the second part of the season in Belek. On the same day, Sochi residents will return home by charter flight, where they will continue training for the game with Tula.

The half-time turned out to be crazy for substitutions. Vladimir Fedotov has changed the whole line-up! It happened not at all because the coach was dissatisfied with the team's performance, it was important to give game practice to players  as many as possible.In the goal from the first minutes of the half, we saw Nikolai Zabolotny, Barac, Yurganov and Margasov in defense. Makarchuk and Joaozinho played on the edges, Khachatryan and Chursin played in the support zone, Melkadze, Popov and Vorobyov played in the attack. The captain of this squad was Ivelin Popov. A large number of changes affected the pace of the game: there was more challenge, and less moments. Dmitriy Vorobyev had a great chance to score, but he got carried away with footwork and simply did not have time to push the opponent's goal. We didn't see any more significant moments. As a result, the victory of Sochi with a score of 1:0.