Ivan Kotukha

Right Back - Livyi Bereh
14 Oct 2026
Wednesday
Process

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The Livyi Bereh Sentinel

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A fracture rules Roman Zhmurko out for 90 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Livyi Bereh will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market

Ivan Kotukha 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 Livyi Bereh can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Andrii Yakymiv 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Livyi Bereh

Maksym Mekhaniv 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 ratings

Vikentiy Voloshyn was the difference for Livyi Bereh

Marked 7.45. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Nazarii Vorobchak

Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Livyi Bereh pick somebody else ahead of Yevhen Banada

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.

Player ratings

A defender's afternoon for Valerii Samar

Defensive actions: 13. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.

Match

Livyi Bereh and Chernihiv cancel each other out

Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Chernihiv came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.

In brief