The Lions arrived safe and sound in Yekaterinburg

The plane carrying the lions of Senegal landed at Yekaterinburg airport in the early afternoon of Friday 22 june.

Coach Aliou Cisse’s boys are playing their second group match of the World in that city of about 1500 000 inhabitants and which is at 1400 km East of Moscow.

This City which is the fourth largest one in Russia after Moscow, Saint Petersburg and Novosibirsk and is already in the colors of Senegal and Japan, which will lock horns this Sunday at 15 pm (Dakar time).

The lions who are in good shape are ones again very determined to play this match as if it were a final.

The two teams are top of Group H with 3 points each and the winner of this match will automatically reach the second round of the FIFA World Cup Russia 2018.