The Polissia Gazette
Player ratings31 Jul 2028
Both of them Mykola Haiduchyk's — 8.47
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.47, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings31 Jul 2028
Borys Krushynskyi was immovable
28 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.
Squad31 Jul 2028
Tempers go at Polissia
Heorhii Bushchan 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.
Squad31 Jul 2028
Dimitar Trajkov is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 23 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Boardroom31 Jul 2028
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Polissia
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Squad31 Jul 2028
Marek Beránek has improved at 25, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 4 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
Squad31 Jul 2028
Words at Polissia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bohdan Mykhailichenko 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.
Match29 Jul 2028
Mykola Haiduchyk sends Polissia past Epicentr
It finished 2‑0, and it was Mykola Haiduchyk’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Polissia.
Market31 Jul 2028
One of our own: Denys Sydorchuk joins the Polissia first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Denys Sydorchuk is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
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- Market One of our own: Serhiy Rotan joins the Polissia first team
- Market One of our own: Volodymyr Rotan joins the Polissia first team