Zimbru was unable to score a victory within its training session in Turkey. After being beaten by a second-league team of Romania and drawing with a team of Georgia, Zimbru was defeated by Kazakhstan’s Kairat 0-2, IPN reports.

The Kazakh team scored twice during the last 15 minutes of the game, being numerically inferior. The former winner of the Champions League, Ukraine’s Anatoli Timoshchuk played for Kairat throughout the match. “The players were tired in the second part of the game given the intense training, but they will definitely be ready for the championship,” said the coach of Zimbru Simao Freitas.

Zimbru returned to Chisinau, where it will continue to train for the second part of the championship. The competition in the National Division is resumed on March 5. Zimbru meets at home Academia.