The Merani Sentinel
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
A goal and an assist for Bakar Laghadze — 7.66
Involvement in 2 goals, from a player who spent the ninety minutes doing the thing a manager actually wants: being where the ball was going to end up. 7.66 beside his name.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Nodar Kavtaradze in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Merani this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match26 Sep 2026
Levan Tsotsonava’s goal not enough for Merani
Levan Tsotsonava scored, and precious little else went right: 3‑4 to Tskhinvali, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Match26 Sep 2026
7 goals as Merani and Tskhinvali go for it
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 7 goals between Merani and Tskhinvali, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Levan Tsotsonava was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.32. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words at Merani training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nikoloz Kharabadze is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad28 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Doueugui Mala
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Nobody could get near Ruslan Askerov
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Too much change too quickly at Merani
10 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
In brief
- Player ratings Sandro Qazaishvili changes it off the bench
- The terraces The press have found their man in Levan Tsotsonava