One day, two friendly matches.

Lokomotiv continue to prepare next season, today is the turn of two friendly matches, which allowed to Kuchuk to discover better the situation of 'Railroaders'. The first game was played against Chernomorets Odessa from Ukraine. Loko won 2-1 and the protagonist was absolutely Roman Pavlyuchenko, who scored a beatiful duble. The former goal was a perfect free kick, the latter instead a fantastic kick from the medium distance. Good feelings also from Makarov, who has been promoted from reserves for this camp. Tigorev played all the game and seemed that the injury is passed. Finally, Lantratov debutted for Loko. He entered at 84' for Abaev. 

Lokomotiv XI v Chernomorets: Abaev (Lantratov, 84), Mykhalyk, Shishkin, Belyaev, Yanbaev, Kasaev, Grigorjev (Koryan, 63), Tigorev, Makarov (Barinov, 82), Aleksey Miranchuk, Pavlyuchenko.

At 20.30 Moscow time, instead, the second part of Loko team played v Fortuna Dusseldorf. Kuchuk made some experiments, in particular tried the couple Sheshukov-Anton Miranchuk in the midfield and Seraskhov on the right back. In both cases, the players gave good impressions, especially Anton Miranchuk, who invented the assist for the goal of 1-0 of Tkachyov (the game finished 1-1). Corluka and Samedov returned to play with Loko after the World Cup in Brazil, while in the final minutes the Belarusian coach gave some minutes also to Barinov and Koryan, both from reserves. Next match on 21th Monday against Greuther, always from Germany. 

Lokomotiv XI v Fortuna: Guilherme, Corluka (Pejcinovic, 46), Durica, Denisov, Seraskhov, Fernandes (Barinov, 88), Sheshukov, Anton Miranchuk, Tkachyov (Koryan, 88), Maicon (Samedov, 62), N'Doye.