The Zvezda Chronicle
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Alexey Titkov, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 7.90
A mark of 7.90 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Market19 Oct 2026
Ruslan Bagaev hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Zvezda can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
A hand in 2 of them from Fernando Macedo — 7.89
Marked 7.89. There is a kind of forward whose value only shows up when you count what he was involved in rather than what he finished, and this is the day that argument makes itself.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Miłosz Rogula 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 Zvezda this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Andrey Zaitsev falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Match17 Oct 2026
Zvezda get the job done against Kosmos
A 2‑1 win over Kosmos, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
The terraces19 Oct 2026
Zvezda supporters have found a favourite in Fernando Macedo
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Fernando Macedo 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.
Match17 Oct 2026
Zvezda settle it inside twenty minutes
2 goals before the ground had finished arriving. Kosmos spent the rest of the afternoon playing a match that had already been decided, and everybody in the stadium knew it.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Nobody could get near Mukhammad Khalibegov
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
In brief
- Squad The manager has not finished forgetting Denis Lebedev's mistake
- Squad No hiding place for Petr Timofeev
- Player ratings Miłosz Rogula ran the game