Kaunas starts with a victory in the Sandraugos Cup © EuroFootball.com

On Saturday in Moscow, the annual "Unity Cup" tournament started, where the best teams from former Soviet Union countries, preparing for the season, as always, participate.

Representing Lithuania, the country's champion FBK "Kaunas", missing two team attackers S. Mikoliūnas and A. Gedgaudas, who left for Edinburgh "Hearts", still managed to defeat the "Dordoi-Dinamo" team from Kyrgyzstan.

The people of Kaunas took the lead after R. Sydykovas sent the ball into his own net, but at the beginning of the second half, Z. Zhimagulov equalized the score by scoring a penalty from 11 meters. However, "Kaunas" did not give up, and in the 72nd minute, Richard Beniušis scored the winning goal.

In another Group B match, the Georgian champion "Tbilisi" won by a narrow margin against "Pakhtakor" from Uzbekistan, and now share the first place with three points. On Sunday, "Kaunas" and "Tbilisi" will play each other, and on Tuesday the people of Kaunas will meet "Pakhtakor".

The victory in Group D was won by Riga's "Skonto", who crushed the Tursunzade "Regar-Tadaz" team from Tajikistan with a score of 4-1. In this match, the Lithuanian representing the Latvian team, Orestas Buitkus, also scored a goal.

In Group A, Minsk's "Dynamo" is in the lead, defeating Almaty's "Kairat", while the Estonian champion Tallinn's "Levadia" could not beat the Russian youth team - this match ended goalless. In the only match of Group D, Baku's "Neftchi" defeated Tiraspol's "Sheriff" team.

Results

Group A: Minsk's "Dynamo" (Belarus) 2 - 1 Almaty's "Kairat" (Kazakhstan) Tallinn's "Levadia" (Estonia) 0 - 0 Russian youth team

Group B: Tbilisi's "Dinamo" (Georgia) 1 - 0 Tashkent's "Pakhtakor" (Uzbekistan) "Kaunas" (Lithuania) 2 - 1 Naryn's "Dordoi-Dinamo" (Kyrgyzstan)

Group C: Riga's "Skonto" (Latvia) 4 - 1 Tursunzade's "Regar-Tadaz" (Tajikistan)

Group D: Baku's "Neftchi" (Azerbaijan) 1 - 0 Tiraspol's "Sheriff" (Moldova)