Mikhail Pykhcheev

Defensive Midfielder - Orenburg 2
8 Sep 2026
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The Orenburg 2 Courier

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match22 Aug 2026

Orenburg 2 win it in stoppage time

The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 91th minute. Uralets-TS will replay every second of the added time for a week.

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

Ruslan Kul' runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 30. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Orenburg 2

Ivan Ivaschenko was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

The terraces24 Aug 2026

One of their own: Bakhammad Khadjimusala

He is 18 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.

Market24 Aug 2026

Ruslan Kul' attracts admirers

The name of Ruslan Kul' has come up in conversations Orenburg 2 were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Match22 Aug 2026

Evgeny Bolotov sends Orenburg 2 past Uralets-TS

It finished 1‑0, and it was Evgeny Bolotov’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Orenburg 2.

The dugout24 Aug 2026

No hiding place for Yegor Antsiperov

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Yegor Antsiperov, and the manager let it.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Words at Orenburg 2 training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mikhail Pykhcheev is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

The dugout24 Aug 2026

Platon Zhuravlev: “That is the standard”

“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 1‑0, already talking about the next one.

In brief

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The Orenburg 2 Courier

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match15 Aug 2026

Chastening afternoon for Orenburg 2

A 0‑3 beating by KDV Tomsk was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Ivan Ivaschenko 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 Orenburg 2 this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout17 Aug 2026

The manager makes an example of Ivan Ivaschenko

“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.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Words at Orenburg 2 training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mikhail Pykhcheev is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Boardroom17 Aug 2026

Nobody left the Orenburg 2 dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

The dugout17 Aug 2026

Platon Zhuravlev: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑3, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

The dugout17 Aug 2026

Ivan Ivaschenko dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

The dugout17 Aug 2026

Yegor Postrigan knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Orenburg 2, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

Stanislav Poroikov could have had three

12 attempts, none of them in. He got into the right places all afternoon, which is the hard part, and did the easy part badly — and that is the version of a bad day a manager can live with.

In brief