Sheriff played the first friendly match during its training session in Turkey. It beat Olympic, which ranks sixth in Uzbekistan, by 2-1. Moldova’s campaign was being led, but Amin Talal and Stepan Radeljic helped it changed the score, IPN reports.

The team trained by Roberto Bordin will now meet the leader of the championship of Denmark, Nordsjalland, on February 4. Before the legs against Partizan Belgrad of the UEFA Europa Conference League of February 16-23, Sheriff will play against Krivbass, which is trained by the former coach of the team from Tiraspol Yuri Vernydub.

The internal competition is resumed on March 4 with the matches of the quarterfinals of Moldova’s Cup. Sheriff plays Dacia Buiucani at this stage of the competition.