The Zenit Penza Post
Match26 Sep 2026
Zenit Penza win it in stoppage time
The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 93th minute. SKA Khabarovsk 2 will replay every second of the added time for a week.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Both of them Evgeny Yegorov's — 8.77
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.77, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Market28 Sep 2026
Yaroslav Terechev has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Zenit Penza they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Daniil Kashmin 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 Zenit Penza this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Yegor Vedernikov 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.
Match26 Sep 2026
Evgeny Yegorov sends Zenit Penza past SKA Khabarovsk 2
It finished 2‑1, and it was Evgeny Yegorov’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Zenit Penza.
The terraces28 Sep 2026
Zenit Penza supporters have found a favourite in Franciszek Antkiewicz
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Franciszek Antkiewicz 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.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
Timur Zainullin 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
11 new faces, and Zenit Penza are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
In brief
- The dugout A satisfied Rostislav Shilov
- The dugout Alexey Makushkin has become a man the manager trusts
- Squad Emil Maiorov, 19, is the weekend’s best young player