Marked for Dmitry Tashov
From our football correspondent
Triumph
Match29 Aug 2026
Some goals win a match and some take one off somebody else. Alexandr Gubanov scored in the 87th minute, Kosmos had already begun thinking about the journey home, and Yenisey 2 took the lot.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Ivan Oborocha, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 7.64
A mark of 7.64 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Match29 Aug 2026
Yenisey 2 make it 4 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Yenisey 2 have 4 straight wins of it.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Dmitry Tashov pops up at the right end — 7.98
7.98, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.
Match29 Aug 2026
Three points for Yenisey 2, 3‑2 the final word against Kosmos in a contest settled by the finer margins.
The terraces31 Aug 2026
At 20 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Squad31 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Danil Ambrosenok, and the manager let it.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Andrey Sorokin dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 14. 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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Triumph
Match22 Aug 2026
8‑2, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Ivan Lapitskiy, 19, plays like he has been here for years — 7.79
A mark of 7.79 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 19-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Market24 Aug 2026
Amir Batyrev 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 Yenisey 2 can pretend not to have heard.
Match22 Aug 2026
Yenisey 2 make it 3 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Yenisey 2 have 3 straight wins of it.
Match22 Aug 2026
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 10 goals between Yenisey 2 and Spartak Moscow 2, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Squad24 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Andrey Sorokin, and the manager let it.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
A performance of 8.13 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad24 Aug 2026
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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Yenisey 2 training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Amir Batyrev 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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Upbeat
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Dmitry Tashov goes up and wins it — 7.87
A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.87 for the rest of it.
Match15 Aug 2026
It finished 5‑4, and it was Astemir Khashkulov’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Yenisey 2.
Match15 Aug 2026
9 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Yenisey 2 and Cherepovets in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Squad17 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Bogdan Ruppel, and the manager let it.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Andrey Sorokin dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
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Upbeat
Match8 Aug 2026
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 4‑1 against Irkutsk, and it could have been more.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Danil Ambrosenok 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.
The terraces10 Aug 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 19-year-old it feels ownership of. Ivan Lapitskiy 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.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market10 Aug 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and Yenisey 2 will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.