Marked for Kirill Isaev
From our football correspondent
Steady
Match12 Aug 2028
Kirill Krasnokhod had done his part in building a 2-goal cushion. What happened after that was collective, and Leningradets were allowed back into a match that had been finished with.
Market14 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.
Squad14 Aug 2028
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Dmitry Alexandrov is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Match12 Aug 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.
Squad14 Aug 2028
“The easiest signature of my career.” Ivan Lepskiy and Dinamo Moscow 2 agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad14 Aug 2028
Words at Dinamo Moscow 2 training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dmitry Skopintsev 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.
Squad14 Aug 2028
Ivan Lepskiy in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Dinamo Moscow 2 this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match12 Aug 2028
2‑2, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Player ratings14 Aug 2028
Successful dribbles: 13. 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
Match13 Mar 2028
Position 2 and 32 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Market13 Mar 2028
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Dinamo Moscow 2 is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad13 Mar 2028
Words at Dinamo Moscow 2 training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alexandr Kutitskiy 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.
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Steady
Squad13 Dec 2027
Baqtiiar Zainutdinov 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 Dec 2027
“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.
Squad13 Dec 2027
Kirill Isaev 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.
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Upbeat
Market1 Nov 2027
“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 Dinamo Moscow 2, and it is not being withdrawn.
The terraces1 Nov 2027
The ground has had enough
“We travel everywhere and we get this.” 7 of the 28 senior players heard it walking off, and the ones who did not hear it were not playing.
Squad1 Nov 2027
“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 Dinamo Moscow 2 know it.
Squad1 Nov 2027
Baqtiiar Zainutdinov 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.
Match30 Oct 2027
Textilschik left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad1 Nov 2027
“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.
Squad1 Nov 2027
Kirill Isaev 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 ratings1 Nov 2027
5.30. Every footballer has these and most of them happen away from a full ground; his did not, and he will be aware of that all week.
Player ratings1 Nov 2027
Marked 5.55. Nothing he attempted worked and by the hour mark he had stopped attempting much, which is the part a manager notices rather than the mistakes.
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Triumph
Match25 Oct 2027
Dinamo Moscow 2 refuse to drop out of the race
Position 1, 28 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
Squad25 Oct 2027
Kirill Isaev: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Dinamo Moscow 2 have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Match23 Oct 2027
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation Dinamo Moscow 2 did not have in the autumn.
Squad25 Oct 2027
Ivan Lepskiy 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 ratings25 Oct 2027
Baqtiiar Zainutdinov was on a different afternoon to everybody else
9.04. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Match23 Oct 2027
Another one collected away from home
3 on the bounce on the road for Dinamo Moscow 2. The coaches leave early, arrive at unlovely grounds in the dark, and keep coming home with three points.
Match23 Oct 2027
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Baqtiiar Zainutdinov. 1‑0 against Sibir, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad25 Oct 2027
Alexandr Kutitskiy 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.
Squad25 Oct 2027
“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
Squad15 Feb 2027
Words at Dinamo Moscow 2 training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alexandr Kutitskiy 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.
Squad15 Feb 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 Dinamo Moscow 2 this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad15 Feb 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Kirill Isaev, and the manager let it.
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Uneasy
Market28 Dec 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Dinamo Moscow 2 can pretend not to have heard.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Daniil Promoshkin is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Alexandr Kutitskiy 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.
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Uneasy
Market21 Dec 2026
“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 Dinamo Moscow 2, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad21 Dec 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Dinamo Moscow 2 may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Alexandr Kutitskiy 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.
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Uneasy
Squad23 Nov 2026
Words at Dinamo Moscow 2 training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dmitry Skopintsev 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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
“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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Kirill Isaev 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.
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Crisis
Match16 Nov 2026
Every point is an argument now for Dinamo Moscow 2
Position 8 and 18 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
The terraces16 Nov 2026
8th and falling: the mood at Dinamo Moscow 2 has gone
18 points and a position everybody in the ground can do the arithmetic on. The songs have stopped being about the team and started being about surviving, which is a different noise entirely.
Market16 Nov 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Dinamo Moscow 2 can pretend not to have heard.
Squad16 Nov 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Gleb Miroshnichenko and Dinamo Moscow 2 agree another 4 years.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Dmitry Skopintsev 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
“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.
Match14 Nov 2026
0‑1 to Tyumen, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Kirill Isaev in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Dinamo Moscow 2 this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Marked 5.30. Nothing he attempted worked and by the hour mark he had stopped attempting much, which is the part a manager notices rather than the mistakes.
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Uneasy
Market9 Nov 2026
“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 Dinamo Moscow 2, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
The hardest thing about being 18 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Vladislav Stepanov did not need any: 7.87, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
The terraces9 Nov 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 18-year-old it feels ownership of. Vladislav Stepanov 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Dmitry Alexandrov 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Leon Zaidenzal
“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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Kirill Isaev 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.