Marked for Yegor Truntaev
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market24 Sep 2029
Emin Eskerov hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Krylya Sovetov 2 can pretend not to have heard.
The dugout24 Sep 2029
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad24 Sep 2029
Alexey Belikov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match22 Sep 2029
It finished 2‑2, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Squad24 Sep 2029
Words at Krylya Sovetov 2 training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Emin Eskerov 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.
The dugout24 Sep 2029
Nikita Kokarev knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Nikita Kokarev trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market24 Sep 2029
The Andrey Tsorn story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Andrey Tsorn signs something — a contract at Krylya Sovetov 2 or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
The dugout24 Sep 2029
The shape wanted a different profile against this opponent, which is a real football answer and no comfort at all to the man it is about. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
Player ratings24 Sep 2029
Successful dribbles: 8. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Back issues
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Steady
Market30 Jul 2029
Sergey Bozhin hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Krylya Sovetov 2 can pretend not to have heard.
Match28 Jul 2029
12 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.
Market30 Jul 2029
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Krylya Sovetov 2 is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad30 Jul 2029
Danil Beltyukov and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Player ratings30 Jul 2029
Successful dribbles: 19. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad30 Jul 2029
Words at Krylya Sovetov 2 training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Arseny Abzalilov 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.
Player ratings30 Jul 2029
Marked 7.48. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
The dugout30 Jul 2029
The manager makes an example of Timur Bulatsev
“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.
Match28 Jul 2029
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Pobeda defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Market23 Jul 2029
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Krylya Sovetov 2 is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad23 Jul 2029
Danil Beltyukov 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.
The dugout23 Jul 2029
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
Squad23 Jul 2029
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Khayalethu Mzimela was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market23 Jul 2029
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Krylya Sovetov 2 has been clear about where Ionafan Sapozhnikov stands, which is more than many ever get.
Market23 Jul 2029
The clock does Yegor Borisov’s negotiating for him
1 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee Krylya Sovetov 2 could ask drops and the wages Yegor Borisov can ask rise.
The dugout23 Jul 2029
The shape wanted a different profile against this opponent, which is a real football answer and no comfort at all to the man it is about. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
Market23 Jul 2029
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Yegor Truntaev’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
The dugout23 Jul 2029
Yordy Reyna has been promised minutes
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Yordy Reyna has written the date down.
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Upbeat
Match11 Jun 2029
47 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Squad11 Jun 2029
Vladimir Ignatenko and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad11 Jun 2029
Petr Salasin 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.
Squad11 Jun 2029
Andrey Tsorn: “I am not a substitute”
“I have done everything asked of me in training and it has not changed a thing on a Saturday.” The most familiar complaint in football, and one Krylya Sovetov 2 will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.
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Upbeat
Match14 May 2029
47 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Squad14 May 2029
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Krylya Sovetov 2 can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Squad14 May 2029
Vladimir Ignatenko and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad14 May 2029
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Arseny Abzalilov was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout14 May 2029
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Krylya Sovetov 2, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market14 May 2029
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Krylya Sovetov 2 has been clear about where Artur Zagorodnikov stands, which is more than many ever get.
The dugout14 May 2029
The manager makes an example of Emin Eskerov
“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.
Market14 May 2029
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Krylya Sovetov 2 know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Squad14 May 2029
“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and Krylya Sovetov 2 will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.
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Upbeat
Match16 Apr 2029
Position 2 and 47 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Market16 Apr 2029
Nikita Ivlev hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Krylya Sovetov 2 can pretend not to have heard.
Squad16 Apr 2029
Vladimir Ignatenko and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad16 Apr 2029
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Arseny Abzalilov was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout16 Apr 2029
Andrey Tsorn knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Andrey Tsorn trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market16 Apr 2029
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Krylya Sovetov 2 know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Upbeat
Squad26 Feb 2029
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Krylya Sovetov 2 this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout26 Feb 2029
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
The dugout26 Feb 2029
Andrey Tsorn asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
The dugout26 Feb 2029
A promise honoured for Artem Chaly
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Krylya Sovetov 2 told Artem Chaly something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
Market26 Feb 2029
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Yegor Truntaev’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Market26 Feb 2029
The market said no: Yordy Reyna stays put
Krylya Sovetov 2 opened the door and nobody walked through it. So Yordy Reyna stays — listed, trained, and available — while both sides mark the days to January on the same calendar.
Squad26 Feb 2029
The move was somebody else's story. What it left behind was a dressing-room stall nobody has taken and a player who keeps looking at it.
Market26 Feb 2029
5 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs Krylya Sovetov 2 money.
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Upbeat
Match19 Feb 2029
47 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Market19 Feb 2029
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
The dugout19 Feb 2029
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Krylya Sovetov 2 may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad19 Feb 2029
Yordy Reyna wants one last season at home
Every long career reaches the week the last one is thought about. He would like it to be where he started, and Krylya Sovetov 2 know now that the thought has arrived.
Squad19 Feb 2029
Yegor Truntaev 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.
Market19 Feb 2029
Dinamo Moscow are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Krylya Sovetov 2 will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Squad19 Feb 2029
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Arseny Abzalilov was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout19 Feb 2029
Yegor Borisov knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Krylya Sovetov 2, and both men came out saying it was fine.
The dugout19 Feb 2029
Something was said to Emin Eskerov and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
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Upbeat
Market8 Jan 2029
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Krylya Sovetov 2 can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings8 Jan 2029
A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.99 for the rest of it.
Match6 Jan 2029
11 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
Squad8 Jan 2029
“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 Krylya Sovetov 2 know it.
Squad8 Jan 2029
Dmytro Ivanisenya 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.
Match6 Jan 2029
A 1‑0 win over Khimik, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad8 Jan 2029
Words at Krylya Sovetov 2 training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Arseny Abzalilov 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.
The dugout8 Jan 2029
No place for Ivan Ignatjev on the big day
He found out with everybody else, an hour before kick-off, from a sheet of paper on a wall. Nobody at Krylya Sovetov 2 pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.
Squad8 Jan 2029
“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and Krylya Sovetov 2 will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market1 Jan 2029
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad1 Jan 2029
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 Krylya Sovetov 2 have had the benefit of it.
Squad1 Jan 2029
Yegor Truntaev and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Player ratings1 Jan 2029
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.
The dugout1 Jan 2029
The manager makes an example of Yordy Reyna
“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.
Match30 Dec 2028
Uralets-TS left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout1 Jan 2029
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑1, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
Squad1 Jan 2029
Andrey Tsorn has had enough of the bench
“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and Krylya Sovetov 2 will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.
Market1 Jan 2029
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Krylya Sovetov 2 has been clear about where Panagiotis Chiotis stands, which is more than many ever get.
From our football correspondent
Steady
The terraces18 Dec 2028
Anger at Krylya Sovetov 2 spills outside the ground
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Squad18 Dec 2028
Danil Beltyukov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Looking ahead18 Dec 2028
Dinamo Barnaul next, and the two sides the division is watching meet each other. Whoever wins will be told nothing is decided in the same breath as being congratulated.
Player ratings18 Dec 2028
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.92 on the card, and the Krylya Sovetov 2 support went home talking about one name.
The dugout18 Dec 2028
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Andrey Zotkin on a 1‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
The dugout18 Dec 2028
Yordy Reyna knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Krylya Sovetov 2, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Player ratings18 Dec 2028
Shots: 7. Goals: none. The chances were there and they were good ones, and they went into the stand, the goalkeeper's arms and the side netting in roughly that order.
Player ratings18 Dec 2028
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 13 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
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Steady
The terraces20 Nov 2028
Supporters organise against the Krylya Sovetov 2 board
A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.
Market20 Nov 2028
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad20 Nov 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Krylya Sovetov 2 this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout20 Nov 2028
Yordy Reyna gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad20 Nov 2028
Yegor Chistyakov 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.
The dugout20 Nov 2028
Danil Beltyukov asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Market20 Nov 2028
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Danil Beltyukov signs something — a contract at Krylya Sovetov 2 or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Market20 Nov 2028
The shop window has Artem Chaly in it
Krylya Sovetov 2 have let the market know Artem Chaly can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.
Squad20 Nov 2028
The training reports on Petr Salasin are not good
A bad Saturday is forgiven; a bad Tuesday is chosen. Standards have slipped and in a building where everybody watches everybody, it has been noticed.
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Steady
Match11 Nov 2028
Every run ends on an afternoon somebody had marked down as routine. This one went 10 matches, which is long enough that a town had stopped counting, and short enough that it will remember exactly who stopped it.
Squad13 Nov 2028
Yegor Truntaev and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match11 Nov 2028
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad13 Nov 2028
100 times in these colours, in all weathers and under four or five different managers. That kind of service is quietly disappearing from the game.
The dugout13 Nov 2028
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Andrey Zotkin after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Squad13 Nov 2028
Yegor Chistyakov 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.
Squad13 Nov 2028
“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and Krylya Sovetov 2 will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.
The dugout13 Nov 2028
Yegor Borisov knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Krylya Sovetov 2, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Player ratings13 Nov 2028
Successful dribbles: 12. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
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Upbeat
Match30 Sep 2028
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 3‑0 against Rubin 2, and it could have been more.
Match2 Oct 2028
21 points and nobody above them. The word is not being said around the ground yet, and it is being thought in every seat.
Player ratings2 Oct 2028
A defender's goal wins it for Krylya Sovetov 2 — 7.69
1 for Andrey Tsorn, marked 7.69, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.
Match30 Sep 2028
The unbeaten run reaches 7. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad2 Oct 2028
Yegor Truntaev 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.
The terraces2 Oct 2028
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
The dugout2 Oct 2028
The manager makes an example of Petr Salasin
“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 ratings2 Oct 2028
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.85 on the card, and the Krylya Sovetov 2 support went home talking about one name.
Squad2 Oct 2028
Four or five weekends of consistency, measured against everybody else in the division. A quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
In brief
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict
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The dugout
Danil Beltyukov knocks on the manager's door
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Squad
Yordy Reyna moves up the pecking order
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
The terraces25 Sep 2028
Anger at Krylya Sovetov 2 spills outside the ground
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Player ratings25 Sep 2028
A brace, and Chinedu Geoffrey takes the afternoon — 8.67
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Chinedu Geoffrey provided it, and the 8.67 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad25 Sep 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Krylya Sovetov 2 this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match23 Sep 2028
6 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
The terraces25 Sep 2028
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Yegor Borisov 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.
Match23 Sep 2028
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Chinedu Geoffrey. 2‑0 against Khimik, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Market25 Sep 2028
Yordy Reyna is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Krylya Sovetov 2 has been clear about where Yordy Reyna stands, which is more than many ever get.
Squad25 Sep 2028
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Yegor Chistyakov was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout25 Sep 2028
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 2‑0, Andrey Zotkin could afford to be generous.
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Upbeat
The terraces28 Aug 2028
The mood at Krylya Sovetov 2 has turned into something else
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
Player ratings28 Aug 2028
Age has not caught Yordy Reyna yet — 7.84
At 34 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.84 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Squad28 Aug 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Krylya Sovetov 2 this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Aug 2028
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Chinedu Geoffrey was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The terraces28 Aug 2028
At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Player ratings28 Aug 2028
Marked 8.07 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Player ratings28 Aug 2028
Marked 8.00 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
The dugout28 Aug 2028
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Andrey Zotkin kept it short after the 3‑1 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
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Steady
Market14 Aug 2028
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Krylya Sovetov 2, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings14 Aug 2028
Age has not caught Yordy Reyna yet — 7.85
At 34 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.85 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Squad14 Aug 2028
Yegor Truntaev 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.
Market14 Aug 2028
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Krylya Sovetov 2 will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Match12 Aug 2028
A 2‑1 win over Chelyabinsk 2, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
The dugout14 Aug 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Danil Beltyukov, and the manager let it.
Match12 Aug 2028
2 goals before the ground had finished arriving. Chelyabinsk 2 spent the rest of the afternoon playing a match that had already been decided, and everybody in the stadium knew it.
Player ratings14 Aug 2028
Marked 7.96. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
Squad14 Aug 2028
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Yegor Chistyakov was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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Crisis
Market7 Aug 2028
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Krylya Sovetov 2, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market7 Aug 2028
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad7 Aug 2028
Yegor Truntaev and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad7 Aug 2028
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Chinedu Geoffrey was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match5 Aug 2028
0‑2 to Akron 2, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout7 Aug 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Harry McKirdy, and the manager let it.
Squad7 Aug 2028
The Krylya Sovetov 2 dressing room has split into 4 groups
Squads form friendships and that is healthy; this is not that. 4 separate groups, 3 players belonging to none of them, and a set of tables at lunch that have stopped rearranging themselves. It very rarely fixes itself.
Market7 Aug 2028
No place for Petr Salasin in the plan
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Petr Salasin has his answer from Krylya Sovetov 2; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
The dugout7 Aug 2028
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑2 Andrey Zotkin left the room before anybody could ask which.
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Uneasy
Squad12 Jun 2028
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 104 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market12 Jun 2028
NK Varazdin come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Krylya Sovetov 2 did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market12 Jun 2028
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Krylya Sovetov 2 is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad12 Jun 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Krylya Sovetov 2 this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market12 Jun 2028
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Vladimir Ignatenko may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
The dugout12 Jun 2028
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Krylya Sovetov 2, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Uneasy
Market15 May 2028
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Krylya Sovetov 2 is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad15 May 2028
Danil Beltyukov 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.
The dugout15 May 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Andrey Tsorn, and the manager let it.
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Uneasy
Market17 Apr 2028
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Krylya Sovetov 2 they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
The dugout17 Apr 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Dmytro Ivanisenya, and the manager let it.
Market17 Apr 2028
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Yegor Truntaev’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
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Uneasy
Market20 Mar 2028
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Krylya Sovetov 2 they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad20 Mar 2028
Yegor Borisov and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
The dugout20 Mar 2028
The manager makes an example of Artem Chaly
“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.
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Uneasy
Market28 Feb 2028
The Andrey Tsorn story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Andrey Tsorn signs something — a contract at Krylya Sovetov 2 or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
The dugout28 Feb 2028
Ninety specific minutes wanted a different sort of player, and the manager picked one. He is not out of form and he is not in the side, and both are true.
Squad28 Feb 2028
Somebody is after Petr Salasin’s shirt
A new face in his position, and Petr Salasin suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. Krylya Sovetov 2 have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.
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Steady
Market17 Jan 2028
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad17 Jan 2028
Dmytro Ivanisenya 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.
The terraces17 Jan 2028
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Yegor Borisov 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.
Match15 Jan 2028
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Nikolay Maximov. 1‑0 against Rubin 2, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings17 Jan 2028
7.83, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Krylya Sovetov 2 had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
Player ratings17 Jan 2028
Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout17 Jan 2028
“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 1‑0, already talking about the next one.
Squad17 Jan 2028
One booking too many, and a game watched from the stand. Krylya Sovetov 2 lose him for the most avoidable reason in the sport.
Market17 Jan 2028
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Artur Zagorodnikov has his answer from Krylya Sovetov 2; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
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Crisis
Match8 Jan 2028
4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Match8 Jan 2028
4 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Krylya Sovetov 2 can tell you which week it ends in.
Match8 Jan 2028
Khimik left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout10 Jan 2028
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Player ratings10 Jan 2028
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout10 Jan 2028
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑1 Andrey Zotkin left the room before anybody could ask which.
Market10 Jan 2028
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Danil Beltyukov signs something — a contract at Krylya Sovetov 2 or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
The dugout10 Jan 2028
No place in the plan for Nikita Ivlev
The manager wanted a different profile for this opponent, which is a real football reason and no consolation. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
Squad10 Jan 2028
“Nobody outside is coming to save us.” It was short, it was not comfortable, and by all accounts the Krylya Sovetov 2 squad were quieter afterwards than they had been all season.
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Crisis
Market3 Jan 2028
Alexey Lysov hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Krylya Sovetov 2 can pretend not to have heard.
Squad3 Jan 2028
Danil Beltyukov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match1 Jan 2028
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Match1 Jan 2028
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout3 Jan 2028
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Player ratings3 Jan 2028
Successful dribbles: 16. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
The dugout3 Jan 2028
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Andrey Zotkin to a room that had heard them before.
Market3 Jan 2028
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Andrey Tsorn’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
The dugout3 Jan 2028
Ninety specific minutes wanted a different sort of player, and the manager picked one. He is not out of form and he is not in the side, and both are true.
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Uneasy
Market27 Dec 2027
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Krylya Sovetov 2 they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad27 Dec 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Krylya Sovetov 2 this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings27 Dec 2027
Successful dribbles: 21. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
The dugout27 Dec 2027
Half-satisfied: Andrey Zotkin on the draw
“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 0‑0, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.
The dugout27 Dec 2027
Yegor Borisov asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Squad27 Dec 2027
One booking too many, and Dmytro Ivanisenya sits out. Krylya Sovetov 2 lose him for the sort of avoidable reason that makes a manager's week longer.
Match25 Dec 2027
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Dinamo Barnaul? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
The dugout27 Dec 2027
Nikita Ivlev is still being punished for one mistake
Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.
Market27 Dec 2027
The Alexey Lysov story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Alexey Lysov signs something — a contract at Krylya Sovetov 2 or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
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Uneasy
Squad20 Dec 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Krylya Sovetov 2 this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings20 Dec 2027
Successful dribbles: 15. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
The dugout20 Dec 2027
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Andrey Zotkin was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Krylya Sovetov 2 dressing room was either.
Match18 Dec 2027
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. KDV Tomsk defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
Market20 Dec 2027
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Nikolay Maximov’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
The dugout20 Dec 2027
Nobody at Krylya Sovetov 2 is suggesting he is out of form. The manager simply wanted somebody with a different set of qualities for ninety specific minutes, and there is nothing a player can train to fix that.
The dugout20 Dec 2027
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Krylya Sovetov 2, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad20 Dec 2027
“Nobody outside is coming to save us.” It was short, it was not comfortable, and by all accounts the Krylya Sovetov 2 squad were quieter afterwards than they had been all season.
Player ratings20 Dec 2027
Fouls conceded: 5. Some of it was commitment, some of it was temper, and the referee had stopped telling the difference well before the end.
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Uneasy
Player ratings13 Dec 2027
A defender's goal wins it for Krylya Sovetov 2 — 7.62
1 for Nikita Pershin, marked 7.62, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.
Player ratings13 Dec 2027
A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.77 for the rest of it.
Squad13 Dec 2027
Danil Beltyukov and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
The terraces13 Dec 2027
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Alexey Lysov 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.
Match11 Dec 2027
A 2‑0 win over Chelyabinsk 2, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Match11 Dec 2027
It had gone 5 games. The players did not celebrate like men who had won a match; they celebrated like men who had been let out of something.
Squad13 Dec 2027
100 times in these colours, in all weathers and under four or five different managers. That kind of service is quietly disappearing from the game.
The dugout13 Dec 2027
The view from the dugout
“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Andrey Zotkin, on a 2‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.
The dugout13 Dec 2027
The manager makes an example of Artem Chaly
“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.
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Uneasy
Player ratings29 Nov 2027
Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market29 Nov 2027
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Krylya Sovetov 2 they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Match27 Nov 2027
No end in sight to Krylya Sovetov 2's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Krylya Sovetov 2 has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad29 Nov 2027
Dmytro Ivanisenya 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.
The dugout29 Nov 2027
The manager makes an example of Andrey Tsorn
“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.
The dugout29 Nov 2027
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Andrey Zotkin was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Krylya Sovetov 2 dressing room was either.
Looking ahead29 Nov 2027
Krylya Sovetov 2 take on the side everybody is chasing
Orenburg 2 arrive as leaders. A side at the top is beaten roughly once a month, and the club that does it gets a week it remembers for a year.
Match27 Nov 2027
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Akron 2? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
The dugout29 Nov 2027
Nikita Ivlev is still being punished for one mistake
Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.
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Uneasy
Match22 Nov 2027
Position 11, 15 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
The dugout22 Nov 2027
The manager makes an example of Danil Beltyukov
“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 ratings22 Nov 2027
One lapse, one goal, and ninety minutes of honest work counting for nothing. That is the job at Krylya Sovetov 2, and it is a cruel one.
Match20 Nov 2027
A 1‑1 draw with Volna leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
The dugout22 Nov 2027
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
The dugout22 Nov 2027
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Andrey Zotkin was not hiding it after 1‑1, and nobody in the Krylya Sovetov 2 dressing room was either.
The dugout22 Nov 2027
Andrey Tsorn knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Krylya Sovetov 2, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad22 Nov 2027
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Krylya Sovetov 2 have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
Market22 Nov 2027
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Nikolay Maximov’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
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Uneasy
Market8 Nov 2027
Alexey Lysov hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Krylya Sovetov 2 can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings8 Nov 2027
Yegor Borisov, 21, steals the show — 7.89
Marked 7.89 at 21, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Squad8 Nov 2027
Danil Beltyukov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match8 Nov 2027
Half the programme played, position 11, 14 on the board. Doubling it is the sum every supporter has done and the only one nobody at the club will do out loud.
Squad8 Nov 2027
“I did not sign to watch. Nobody does.” The oldest complaint in the game, and Krylya Sovetov 2 will have to answer it with minutes or with a move.
Match6 Nov 2027
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
The dugout8 Nov 2027
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 1‑1 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
The dugout8 Nov 2027
Yegor Borisov knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Krylya Sovetov 2, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad8 Nov 2027
One yellow too many, and a match watched from the stand. The most avoidable absence in football, and Krylya Sovetov 2 will feel it on Saturday.