The Epicentr Sentinel
Squad19 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Nil Coch
45 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Epicentr lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match17 Oct 2026
A 2-goal lead gone for Epicentr
It is a specific kind of quiet, a ground watching a winning position dissolve. Oleksandriya kept coming because nothing stopped them, and Epicentr will be asked about the last half hour all week.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Both of them Vladyslav Supriaha's — 8.65
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.65, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Carlos Rojas runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Epicentr
Nil Coch 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Daniil Vashchenko signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Daniil Vashchenko commits to Epicentr for another 4 years.
Match17 Oct 2026
Epicentr and Oleksandriya take a point apiece
It finished 2‑2, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
Heorhiy Babenko: “We have to be better”
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 2‑2 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
Somebody else is better right now than Yevhen Zaporozhets
The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.
In brief
- Looking ahead A test against the best for Epicentr
- Looking ahead Ihor Kyriukhantsev goes back to face Shakhtar
- The dugout When it matters, Ihor Kyriukhantsev plays