The Montana Gazette
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Nikola Krajinović runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 35. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
A brace, and Mats Lillebo takes the afternoon — 8.03
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Mats Lillebo provided it, and the 8.03 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Montana
Mats Lillebo 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.
Match10 Oct 2026
Still nobody has beaten Montana
The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Étienne Camara 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.
Match10 Oct 2026
Montana get the job done against Lokomotiv Plovdiv
A 2‑1 win over Lokomotiv Plovdiv, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
In brief
- Squad Solomon James signs a new deal
- Squad 5 new faces, and Montana are still learning each other
- Player ratings Angelos Tsingaras spends the afternoon fouling