Temirlan Anarbekov entered the top

The Kazakh team began its journey in the Conference League with an away match against "Riga" (Latvia). The teams exchanged goals in the first 12 minutes, and then a 11-meter shot was awarded to "Kairat". The Latvian team's player Badamosi shot towards the right corner of the goal, but Temirlan Anarbekov managed to firmly take the ball and emerged as the winner of this duel. In addition to the saved penalty, Temirlan saved his team several more times and ended up with 7 saves, becoming the best player of the match according to the SofaScore statistics portal. Screenshot: sofascore.com Thanks to his confident play, Anarbekov entered the top-3 of the tournament's best goalkeepers in terms of saves. Only the goalkeeper of the Faroe Islands' "Lincoln Red Imp," Jenkins, managed more saves in the first match – he saved his team 9 times in the game against the Norwegian "Brann," but this did not save the team from a 1:2 defeat. Watch this post on Instagram Anarbekov saved in the Champions League Recall that Temirlan has not been the first to save penalties in matches for "Kairat" in European competitions. Last year, thanks to his saves in the penalty shootout against "Southampton," the team first reached the group stage of the tournament and brought Madrid's "Real" to Almaty. As a result of the last group stage, the Kazakh goalkeeper entered the symbolic squad of the Champions League from the Flashscore portal. He made 34 saves in six matches and finished the tournament with a 72.3 percent save rate. Furthermore, he became the first Kazakh in Champions League history to receive the best player award for the match. Watch this post on Instagram Kazakhstan in European competitions 2026/2027 Almaty's "Kairat" is the only team that managed to reach the group stage of the European competitions this year. "Astana", "Yelimai", and "Tobol" were eliminated in the early stages of qualification. Kairat's next match in the Conference League will be on October 22nd – in Almaty, the Greek "Panathinaikos" will arrive, who started the tournament with a home victory over the Bosnian "Borac" (2:1). "Kairat" drew with "Riga" in the first match of the Conference League. Earlier, another Kazakh goalkeeper Stas Pokatilov became the best player of the Champions League and helped the Azerbaijani "Sabah" achieve a historic victory. And the President of the International Federation of Football Associations (FIFA), Gianni Infantino, apologized for the project to transfer the rights to host the World Cup.