Maxim Boichenko

Right Midfielder - Arsenal Tula 2
26 Jan 2027
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Maxim Boichenko

16 Edition

The Arsenal Tula 2 Post

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

9 unbeaten for Arsenal Tula 2

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 9 matches without defeat is a foundation Arsenal Tula 2 did not have in the autumn.

Squad

Maxim Boichenko keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Arsenal Tula 2 may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

Nikita Karmaev 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.

Squad

Mikhail Kozin 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 Arsenal Tula 2 this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The terraces

Arsenal Tula 2 supporters have found a favourite in Alexandr Bastrykin

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 20-year-old it feels ownership of. Alexandr Bastrykin 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 ratings

Alexandr Bastrykin runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

Arsenal Tula 2 see off Znamya Truda

Three points for Arsenal Tula 2, 1‑0 the final word against Znamya Truda in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Player ratings

Nothing got past Yegor Knyazev

Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 19 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.

Squad

Yegor Knyazev 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

Back issues
11 Edition

The Arsenal Tula 2 Post

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Denis Grigorjev is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 19 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad

Tempers go at Arsenal Tula 2

Nikita Karmaev 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 ratings

The afternoon belonged to Nikita Karmaev

7.50, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Arsenal Tula 2 had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.

Squad

Stepan Obryvkov 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.

Squad

David Gigolaev 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.

Match

Point won or two lost for Arsenal Tula 2?

Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against SKA Khabarovsk 2? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.

In brief

3 Edition

The Arsenal Tula 2 Post

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Alexandr Bastrykin ran the middle of the pitch — 6.93

He won it back and then made something of it, which is two jobs and the reason the scoreline looks the way it does. 17 combined actions and a mark of 6.93, and not one of them will make a highlights package.

Squad

Tempers go at Arsenal Tula 2

Mikhail Kozin 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.

Squad

Words at Arsenal Tula 2 training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yaroslav Demchenko 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.

Squad

Arsenal Tula 2 pick somebody else ahead of Yegor Knyazev

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.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Maxim Boichenko

“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.

Player ratings

Ilja Sokolov runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 12. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief