The Sumgayit Courier
Match9 Sep 2026
Sumgayit out of the cup
AZAL ended it 0‑1. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Age has not caught Alexandre Ramalingom yet — 7.97
At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.97 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Aleksa Janković runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Johan Osorio 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Mehdi Cənnətov
“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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Pedro Ataíde 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 Sumgayit this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match12 Sep 2026
Sumgayit share the spoils with Gabala
A 1‑1 draw with Gabala leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Johan Osorio asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
The chances came and went for Pedro Ataíde
5 shots, and a count that reads like a good afternoon until you check the other column. Strikers survive weeks like this on the understanding that the chances keep arriving; the day they stop is the day it becomes a problem.
In brief
- Player ratings Off the pace: Emil Mustafaiev
- Market Window shut, Ruslan Əliyev still here