The Akron Chronicle
Match30 Sep 2026
The cup run ends for Akron
1‑1 against Saturn, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Edgar Sevikyan runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 33. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
A brace, and Gilson Benchimol takes the afternoon — 8.31
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Gilson Benchimol provided it, and the 8.31 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Vitaly Gudiev decides it from twelve yards
1 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Akron
Kristijan Bistrović 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Home is on Paulo Vitor's mind
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Akron are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at Akron training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Roberto Fernández 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 terraces5 Oct 2026
The crowd has taken to Aleksa Đurasović
At 23 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.
Match3 Oct 2026
Gilson Benchimol sends Akron past Dinamo Makhachkala
It finished 2‑0, and it was Gilson Benchimol’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Akron.
In brief
- Player ratings The kick that got away from Konstantin Maradishvili
- Market Talks stall between Akron and Alexandr Morozov
- Player ratings The pass was always on for Agustín Segundo