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Steady
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 56. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market23 Nov 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Words at Rostov 2 training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kirill Cheburakov 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.
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Upbeat
Match17 Oct 2026
3‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.18, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Match17 Oct 2026
Still nobody has beaten Rostov 2
The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad19 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Kirill Cheburakov, and the manager let it.
Match17 Oct 2026
Rostov 2 settle it inside twenty minutes
2 goals before the ground had finished arriving. Legion spent the rest of the afternoon playing a match that had already been decided, and everybody in the stadium knew it.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Murad Alimov 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.
Boardroom19 Oct 2026
Nobody left the Rostov 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Danil Ryazanov 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Rostov 2 told Rustam Asenchukov something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
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Steady
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
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.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
A brace, and Ilja Zhbanov takes the afternoon — 8.14
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Ilja Zhbanov provided it, and the 8.14 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Nikita Romanov pops up at the right end — 7.51
7.51, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.
Match10 Oct 2026
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between Rostov 2 and Kuban Holding, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Match10 Oct 2026
Kuban Holding made Rostov 2 work for it, but the scoreboard read 4‑2 at the end and the table does not ask how.
The terraces12 Oct 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Rustam Asenchukov 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Ilja Zhbanov
“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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words at Rostov 2 training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Murad Alimov 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Rostov 2 this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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Uneasy
Match19 Sep 2026
No end in sight to Rostov 2's wait for a win
8 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Rostov 2 has to find a result from somewhere.
Match21 Sep 2026
Rostov 2 are in real trouble now
Position 12, 6 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Squad21 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Rostov 2 this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match19 Sep 2026
3 matches without a goal for Rostov 2
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Murad Alimov 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.
The terraces21 Sep 2026
At 19 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Nikita Kolyuchkin, and the manager let it.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Danil Ryazanov 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.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Marked 7.15. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
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Uneasy
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
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.
Match22 Aug 2026
No end in sight to Rostov 2's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Rostov 2 has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Vladimir Kasparyan 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.