The Arsenal Dzerzhinsk Chronicle
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Pavel Kotlyarov runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 32. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market7 Sep 2026
Danila Gavrilchuk 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 Arsenal Dzerzhinsk can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Up for the corner, and Viktor Sotnikov delivers — 7.31
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Viktor Sotnikov scored, was marked 7.31, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Floriano Vanzo 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 Dzerzhinsk this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Santiago Mera 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Vladislav Vasiljev
“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 ratings7 Sep 2026
The afternoon belonged to Floriano Vanzo
7.89, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Arsenal Dzerzhinsk had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
Match5 Sep 2026
Floriano Vanzo rescues a point for Arsenal Dzerzhinsk
It needed Floriano Vanzo to find the net to bring anything home at all: 2‑2 against Naftan, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
Squad7 Sep 2026
“I want to play”: Viktor Sotnikov speaks
“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.
In brief
- Market Still no ink between Arsenal Dzerzhinsk and Yuriy Lovets
- Market Santiago Mera joins Arsenal Dzerzhinsk to strengthen the squad
- Player ratings The pass was always on for Santiago Mera