The Lokomotiv Sofia Post
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Divine Teah, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 7.65
A mark of 7.65 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
António Eirô runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Ryan Bidounga 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 Lokomotiv Sofia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match19 Sep 2026
Adil Taoui sends Lokomotiv Sofia past Botev Vratsa
It finished 2‑0, and it was Adil Taoui’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Lokomotiv Sofia.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Ante Aralica was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.40. 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
200 appearances for Erol Dost
200 games in these colours. Service of that kind gets rarer every season, and the crowd knows it.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Gonçalo Cascalheira stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Gonçalo Cascalheira and Lokomotiv Sofia agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Stanimir Ivanov has his say
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Stanimir Ivanov on a 2‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words at Lokomotiv Sofia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sadio Dembélé 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.
In brief
- The dugout The plan did not have a place for Lovro Bizjak
- Market The Angel Lyaskov question follows Lokomotiv Sofia around
- The dugout David Ogaga has become a man the manager trusts