The Kyzyltash Chronicle
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Łukasz Piontek, 21, steals the show — 7.85
Marked 7.85 at 21, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Squad26 Oct 2026
6 saves: Nikolay Prisyazhnenko was the team
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Alexandr Lapin: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Kyzyltash have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Kyzyltash
Oleg Bulatnikov and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Match24 Oct 2026
Kyzyltash see off Spartak Nalchik
Three points for Kyzyltash, 2‑1 the final word against Spartak Nalchik in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad26 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Kyzyltash
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Artem Demagin was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The terraces26 Oct 2026
One of their own: Łukasz Piontek
He is 21 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
A masterclass from Ushindi
Marked 8.00 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Too much change too quickly at Kyzyltash
15 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
In brief
- The dugout The view from the dugout
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Vladimir Kosmachev
- Player ratings Neri Taliandro was unplayable