Around midday of Wednesday, 17 September, the air liner with the Bulls on board made a take-off from the runway of the Krasnodar airport and in about four hours landed successfully at the Lesquin airport of Lille.
The Team (which has all the players arrived to France including disqualified Joãozinho and Pavel Mamayev whose rehabilitation after the injury is coming to an end) made a 25-minute ride by bus to the Mercure Lille Metropole hotel, made a check-in, enjoyed its lunch and took to their rooms for a couple of hours after the flight. Later that day the players went to the Stade Pierre-Mauroy for the pre-game training session. The video sketch of the session will be offered to you in a few hours.
Half an hour before the other players the football arena of LOSC was visited by Oleg Kononov, the Head Coach, and Marat Izmailov, a midfielder, accompanied by the representatives of the Club media service. They took part in the traditional pre-match press conference. The video sketch of this event will also appear on our official website a little later. Below the text of this article you can also find a small photo report about the first day of stay of the Black-greens in Lille.
As a reminder, the first matchday fixture for the Group H of UEFA Europa League between LOSC Lille and FC Krasnodar will start on Thursday, 18 September, at 23:05 (MSK), and the live broadcast of this match can be viewed at the NTV publicly available federal channel.
