The Sevastopol Courier
Match29 Aug 2026
No mercy from Sevastopol
Angusht will want this one forgotten quickly: 3‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Sevastopol were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Amet Dugu goes up and wins it — 7.90
A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.90 for the rest of it.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Sevastopol
Artem Stepanovich 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 terraces31 Aug 2026
The crowd has taken to Maxim Isaev
At 21 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Artem Stepanovich in the eights
A performance of 8.21 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Sevastopol are still strangers to each other
10 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
Danila Nazarov: “That is the standard”
“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 3‑0, already talking about the next one.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Redvan Osmanov runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at Sevastopol training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Rostislav Tyschenko 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.
In brief
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Rostislav Tyschenko
- The dugout Bekkhan Aliev has become a man the manager trusts
- Squad Georgy Maltsev, 17, gets his chance