Hellas Verona played an impressive 1-1 draw with Rubin Kazan, decided by veteran hitman Luca Toni.
The Ukrainians took the lead after just six minutes when Sardar Azmoun sprung the offside trap on a long ball over the top.
Hellas Verona played an impressive 1-1 draw with Rubin Kazan, decided by veteran hitman Luca Toni.
The Ukrainians took the lead after just six minutes when Sardar Azmoun sprung the offside trap on a long ball over the top.
Nicolas performed a crucial save to deny Atalanta” data-scaytid=”6″>ex-Atalanta and Inter striker Marko Livaja and Vladimir Dyadyun.
After the restart, Verona drew level when Toni was quickest to react on a parried Rafael Marques header.
Panagiotis Tachtsidis and Mattia Valoti had chances to give Verona the victory, then in the final minutes Michael Rabusic thumped the crossbar.
Despite it being a friendly, Cesar Navas was sent off after 77 minutes.
Verona: Nicolas (Gollini 46); Martic, Marques (Bianchetti 65), Gonzalez, Agostini (Zampano 46); Sala (Obbadi 46), Donati (Tachtsidis 46), Hallfredsson (Ionita 65); Chanturia (Gomez Taleb 46), Toni (Rabusic 65), Jankovic (Valoti 65)
Rubin Kazan: Ryzhikov (Filtsov 46); Kverkvelia, Navas, Nabiullin, Sobolev; Dyadyun (Kambolov 46), Kislyak (Evseev 75), Mogilevets (Kalinskiy 78), Wakaso (Bibilov 65); Livaja (Mullin 78); Azmoun (Devic 46)