The Urartu-2 Sentinel
Squad19 Mar 2029
A falling-out at Urartu-2
Yevhen Tsymbaliuk and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The terraces19 Mar 2029
The crowd has taken to Samuka
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.
Match17 Mar 2029
Late, late show earns Urartu-2 a point
Minute 92, against Hayq, 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.
Player ratings19 Mar 2029
The afternoon belonged to Samuka
A mark of 7.33, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
Match17 Mar 2029
David Bayramyan rescues a point for Urartu-2
It needed David Bayramyan to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Hayq, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
Squad19 Mar 2029
A row about effort at Urartu-2
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Anton Bratkov was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings19 Mar 2029
Off the bench and decisive: David Bayramyan
The substitution nobody applauded turned out to be the whole story. Urartu-2 were going nowhere until he came on.
The dugout19 Mar 2029
The manager makes Yevhen Tsymbaliuk a promise
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Urartu-2. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
Market19 Mar 2029
Urartu-2 put Hamlet Sargsyan up for sale
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Hamlet Sargsyan may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
In brief
- Squad Artur Melikyan says his piece
- Squad The shirt is Anton Bratkov’s
- Player ratings Alex Bród was unplayable