The CSKA Moscow Gazette
Squad4 Jan 2027
The season belongs to Luciano Gondou
An individual honour is a strange thing in a team game, and the best of them are never argued with. He has had the sort of year that ends with his name being read out, and CSKA Moscow have had the benefit of it.
Player ratings4 Jan 2027
Kirill Glebov beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 27. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Luciano Gondou is carrying CSKA Moscow
16 goals and a season average of 7.36. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Tempers go at CSKA Moscow
Moisés 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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Matheus Alves is the real thing at 21
A season average of 7.11 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. CSKA Moscow know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
Luciano Gondou has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at CSKA Moscow will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Match2 Jan 2027
Luciano Gondou rescues a point for CSKA Moscow
It needed Luciano Gondou to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Rostov, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
Market4 Jan 2027
Nobody at CSKA Moscow has picked up the phone to Alerrandro
49 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
The form table has caught Igor Akinfeev
Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.
In brief
- The dugout Half-satisfied: Boris Shilov on the draw
- Market The Ivan Oblyakov talk will not go away
- Looking ahead Ilzat Akhmetov goes back to face Rubin