The Neftchi Sentinel
Squad28 Sep 2026
Vladimir Jovović 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Stipe Perica 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 Neftchi this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Zoran Marušić 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.
Match26 Sep 2026
Neftchi come up short against Bunyodkor
Bunyodkor left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad28 Sep 2026
When it matters, Botirali Ergashev plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
The chances came and went for Xurshid G'iyosov
6 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.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Nobody could get near Jamshid Iskanderov
Successful dribbles: 11. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
An afternoon Stipe Perica will want back
Marked 5.62. Nothing he attempted worked and by the hour mark he had stopped attempting much, which is the part a manager notices rather than the mistakes.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
An afternoon Zoran Marušić will want back
Marked 5.66. Nothing he attempted worked and by the hour mark he had stopped attempting much, which is the part a manager notices rather than the mistakes.
In brief
- Market Husan O'rolov leaves for nothing
- Market Muhammadqodir Rasuljonov leaves for nothing
- Market Muhammadziyo Adhamjonov leaves for nothing