The Probiy Gazette
Match26 Aug 2026
Probiy through in the cup
A 2‑2 win over Dynamo Kyiv, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Maksym Kovalenko decides it from twelve yards
1 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.
Match29 Aug 2026
The wait goes on for Probiy
6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Valentyn Napuda, 21, steals the show — 7.66
Marked 7.66 at 21, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
No thanks: Oswaldo Valencia rejects the move
Probiy had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Mitre, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Match29 Aug 2026
Probiy come up short against Bukovyna
Bukovyna left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Probiy
Valentyn Napuda 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.
Match26 Aug 2026
Late, late show earns Probiy a point
Minute 122, against Dynamo Kyiv, and a goal that felt like a win to everybody who had stayed. It was a draw. Nobody leaving the ground will describe it as one.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
Stanislav Oksenenko 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.
In brief
- The dugout The manager’s verdict
- Player ratings Maksym Hirnyi runs at them all day
- The dugout Maksym Kovalenko gets picked when it counts