由于乌克兰没有‘主场’比赛，阿尔达·图兰所在的球队再次踏上征程，切尔西的斯坦福桥球场将承办他们的欧冠征程。早晨的薄雾散去，留下低矮的细薄云层。云层之下，顿涅茨克矿工的球员们正在进行训练。对于前一天未首发对阵维雷斯·里夫内的球员来说，这是一次轻松的训练；这意味着阿尔达·图兰站在一旁观察，与足球总监达里奥·斯尔纳一起观看。
With no ‘home’ games in Ukraine, Arda Turan’s side hit the road again, with Chelsea’s Stamford Bridge hosting their Champions League campaign The morning has thinned out into low, wispy cloud. Beneath it, Shakhtar Donetsk’s players are going through their paces. It is a light session for those who did not start against Veres Rivne the previous day; that means Arda Turan observes from the side, watching with the director of football, Darijo Srna.
一个偏离的球飞向他们，斯尔纳先是将其 juggling 起来，然后用熟悉的右脚弧线将其弹入球门。“莫德里奇！”图兰惊呼。但这两人各自都是足球传奇，随着他们在斯尔纳匆忙离开去接另一个电话之前继续开玩笑，一个念头浮现：这个欢乐的场景几乎可以在任何其他地方上演。就在球队住宿处不远处，湖面在初升的阳光下闪耀着光泽。
A stray ball zips towards them and Srna, after juggling it up, bends it into the goal with a familiar right-footed arc. “Modric!” exclaims Turan. But the two men are football legends in their own right and, as they continue to joke before Srna dashes away to take another phone call, the thought occurs that this happy scene could be played out almost anywhere else. Nearby, just beyond the team’s accommodation, a lake shimmers under the emerging sun.
这掩盖了一个事实：就在黎明时分，空袭警报打断了所有人眼前的宁静。即便在这里，位于利沃夫郊外15分钟车程的顿涅茨克矿工乡村水疗酒店基地，也没有人能免受俄罗斯火箭和无人机的威胁。在里夫内，向东北方向驾车三小时的地方，另一次警报迫使球员和工作人员冲向体育场的避难所。下半场因此推迟了20分钟，无论是国家的哪个角落还是秋色的绚烂程度，这已经成为每周的现实。
It masks the fact that, around dawn, air raid sirens disrupted the peace for everyone in view. Even here, in Shakhtar’s bucolic spa hotel base 15 minutes outside Lviv, nobody is safe from the threat of Russian rockets and drones. In Rivne, three hours’ drive to the north-east, another alarm had sent the players and staff down to the stadium’s shelter. The second half was delayed by 20 minutes and that, no matter the corner of the country or the vividness of the autumn colours, is a weekly reality.
