The Oleksandriya Sentinel
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
Nobody could get near Serhiy Buletsa
Successful dribbles: 27. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Tempers go at Oleksandriya
Andrii Klishchuk 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Ümit Akdağ 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.
Match19 Dec 2026
Oleksandriya come up short against Zorya
Zorya left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Jota Pereira reaches 100 appearances
100 games in the shirt. Nobody sets out to build a record like that; it happens to a certain kind of player at a certain kind of club, and this town knows what it has.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
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 Danylo Sirenko left the room before anybody could ask which.
Squad21 Dec 2026
No place for Daniel Bunk in the new shape
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Oleksandriya are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
Nazariy Popov dropped after a run of poor form
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.
Looking ahead21 Dec 2026
A reunion for Andrii Klishchuk
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Karpaty in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
In brief
- Market The Mykola Kukharevych story refuses to die
- The dugout Artem Shulianskyi has become a man the manager trusts
- The dugout No place in the plan for Denys Sliusar