The Volgar Sentinel
Squad24 Aug 2026
A fracture rules Vladislav Yampolskiy out for 128 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Volgar will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match19 Aug 2026
Cup progress for Volgar
A 2‑1 win over Tver, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Vladislav Adaev
Successful dribbles: 34. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match22 Aug 2026
Volgar run riot against Textilschik
3‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
A defender's goal wins it for Volgar — 7.85
1 for Alexey Pavlishin, marked 7.85, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.
Match22 Aug 2026
Volgar make it 3 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Volgar have 3 straight wins of it.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Vyacheslav Krotov 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 Volgar this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
Volgar supporters have found a favourite in Magomed Nasibov
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Magomed Nasibov 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.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
A masterclass from Dmitry Lesnikov
Marked 8.55 — 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.
In brief
- Player ratings Magomed Nasibov in the eights
- Squad The division's best last weekend was a Volgar man
- Squad Kirill Volkov is the weekend's best young player