Marked for Nicolás Sumavil
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Upbeat
Match31 Oct 2026
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 15 matches without defeat is a foundation Dynamo Kyiv did not have in the autumn.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Words at Dynamo Kyiv training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Volodymyr Brazhko 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Nicolás Sumavil was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Match31 Oct 2026
Three points for Dynamo Kyiv, 1‑0 the final word against Zorya in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Ninety minutes of Nazar Voloshyn at his very best
Marked 8.41. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Dynamo Kyiv.
Squad2 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Nicolás Sumavil
“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.
Loan watch2 Nov 2026
“I watch every Dynamo Kyiv game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Vojvodina runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Squad2 Nov 2026
A place in the month's best eleven for Denys Dykyi
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Denys Dykyi has come out of that comparison in the side, and Dynamo Kyiv have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
Back issues
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Steady
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 37. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match24 Oct 2026
Still nobody has beaten Dynamo Kyiv
The unbeaten run reaches 14. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Match26 Oct 2026
Dynamo Kyiv are in among the leaders
Position 2 and 29 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Mykola Shaparenko falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad26 Oct 2026
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Dynamo Kyiv know it.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Nazar Voloshyn was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Match24 Oct 2026
8 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
A mark of 7.26, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
Squad26 Oct 2026
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
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Upbeat
Match19 Sep 2026
Still nobody has beaten Dynamo Kyiv
The unbeaten run reaches 9. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad21 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Dynamo Kyiv this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Nicolás Sumavil
“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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words at Dynamo Kyiv training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Luis Ángel Mendoza 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.
Loan watch21 Sep 2026
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Dynamo Kyiv, and 0 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.
Squad21 Sep 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
Match19 Sep 2026
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Kolos came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
Loan watch21 Sep 2026
8 appearances at Epicentr and the goals keep coming. Dynamo Kyiv are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
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Upbeat
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 53. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
At 36 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.94 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Match12 Sep 2026
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 8 matches without defeat is a foundation Dynamo Kyiv did not have in the autumn.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Kostiantyn Vivcharenko and Dynamo Kyiv agree another 3 years.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Mykola Shaparenko falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad14 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Dynamo Kyiv this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match12 Sep 2026
Obolon made Dynamo Kyiv work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“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.
Loan watch14 Sep 2026
“I watch every Dynamo Kyiv game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Livyi Bereh runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
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Triumph
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 28. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.94 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Market24 Aug 2026
The paperwork is done: Illia Krupskyi joins from Metalist in a deal worth $1.8M. Now comes the harder part.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A move Illia Krupskyi would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Illia Krupskyi is living that version at Dynamo Kyiv, and it tends to show in the first month.
Market24 Aug 2026
Dynamo Kyiv spend $500.0K to raise the standard
This is not cover and nobody is pretending it is. $500.0K has been paid because Nicolás Sumavil is straightforwardly better than what was already here, and the club has decided to stop waiting.
Squad24 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Dynamo Kyiv this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Dynamo Kyiv training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mykola Shaparenko 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.
Match22 Aug 2026
It finished 1‑0, and it was Vitaliy Buialskyi’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Dynamo Kyiv.
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Triumph
Match19 Aug 2026
Platense march on in the cup
Gimnasia y Tiro are out and Platense go through, 1‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Market24 Aug 2026
Baniyas come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Platense did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
No sign of nerves from Manuel Tucker at 21 — 8.31
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Manuel Tucker did not need any: 8.31, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 27. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad24 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Platense this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market24 Aug 2026
Dynamo Kyiv paid $500.0K and Platense took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Manuel Tucker has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Squad24 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Augusto Lotti, and the manager let it.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Iván Gómez falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
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Steady
Market10 Aug 2026
Platense say no — this time
The offer from Dynamo Kyiv for Nicolás Sumavil was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ignacio Vázquez commits to Platense for another 4 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Matías Borgogno was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad10 Aug 2026
15 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Juan Gauto falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Match8 Aug 2026
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Newell's Old Boys defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
Market10 Aug 2026
Still no offer on the table, and Bautista Merlini’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
Market10 Aug 2026
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.