At their training camp in Austria Kuban played a friendly match against Admira Wacker. Russian club won  – 2:0, the goals were scored by Gheorghe Bucur and Vladislav Ignatyev. Sekou Oliseh made his appearance in the second half.

Admira-Wacker – Kuban – 0:2 (0:1)

Goals:  Bucur, 23, Ignatyev, 76.

Kuban: Belenov (Baychora, 60), Sosnin (Zhavnerchik, 71), Armash, Xandão (Dealbert , 46), Zhavnerchik (Yakuba, 46), Ignatyev (Khubulov, 71), Kabore (Kulik, 69), Kulik (Tlisovв, 46), Khubulov (Ignatyev, 71), Bucur, Melgarejo (Oliseh, 46).

Cautions: Dealbert, 84.

The club Head Coach Victor Gancharenko gave his assessment of his players activities during the game and spoke about his impressions on the conditions in which the team prepares for the season to the official website of the club.

-         Victor, how far are you satisfied with the friendly match taking into consideration the fact that our team had it under extended training load?

-         After a long interval it takes some time during such kind of first match to restore some playing functions and forgotten connections. But in general I liked the way we have been working at training sessions, the way we survived rather serious training load. The most important in such matches: to show character and will. These qualities were seen in this game in full. And our players have a lot of skills. I think that we had a sparring match of good quality. It is important in such games to provide playing practice for as many players as possible. And in our case it was also arranged.

-         Did you have any problem with not having an optimized squad for this game?

 - Yes, we did not have Popov, but if it is better to keep the player away for some use and no to field him, it is better to do so.

 - How serious is his injury? 

 - I think that he will return to his training in several days. We shall evaluate his recovery, but I don’t think it will last long.

 - The format of today match permitted to have back substitutions, which Kuban used in full. What do you think about this system in such friendly matches?

 - May be for players it is not very pleasant – they leave the pitch, cool down and then return in the game. But it was necessary in our situation in order to devide the load among the players equally.

 - How will you continue your work at the first training camp?

 - The focus is still made for the extended physical load, but working with balls won’t be put aside. Besides, we are going to have one more friendly match, which we shall have just before our flight to Krasnodar. I would like to emphasize again that the food, recovery, quality of the pitch we are using for two training sessions a day  - everything is at the highest possible level. Our work in the preparation for the season is going strictly according to our plans.