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Uneasy
Player ratings7 Aug 2028
No sign of nerves from Alexandr Shuvalov at 20 — 7.75
The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Alexandr Shuvalov did not need any: 7.75, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad7 Aug 2028
Ivan Oborocha is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 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.
Squad7 Aug 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Yenisey 2 this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Aug 2028
Words at Yenisey 2 training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ivan Oborocha 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.
Squad7 Aug 2028
At 27 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.
Match5 Aug 2028
A 2‑2 draw with Irkutsk leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Market7 Aug 2028
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Yenisey 2, another week without a signature from Alexandr Shuvalov.
Market7 Aug 2028
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Ilja Antsiferov has his answer from Yenisey 2; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
Market7 Aug 2028
36 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Squad15 Nov 2027
Dmitry Tashov damages knee ligaments — 33 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 33 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match13 Nov 2027
The wait goes on for Yenisey 2
4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Match13 Nov 2027
Yenisey 2 leaking at the back
4 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.
Match13 Nov 2027
It finished 2‑2, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Squad15 Nov 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Danil Ambrosenok, and the manager let it.
Squad15 Nov 2027
Nikita Shershov 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.
Squad15 Nov 2027
Bogdan Ruppel has had enough of the bench
“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and Yenisey 2 will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.
Player ratings15 Nov 2027
Marked 5.71, and generously at that. Nothing came off, and by the end the crowd had stopped expecting it to.
Player ratings15 Nov 2027
A mark of 5.69 tells the story without any need for embellishment. He will want the tape of this one quietly lost.
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Uneasy
Match16 Oct 2027
Three points for Yenisey 2, 2‑1 the final word against Luki-Energiya in a contest settled by the finer margins.
The terraces18 Oct 2027
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.
Squad18 Oct 2027
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad18 Oct 2027
Ivan Oborocha 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.
Squad18 Oct 2027
Ivan Oborocha knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Yenisey 2, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad18 Oct 2027
The shape wanted a different profile against this opponent, which is a real football answer and no comfort at all to the man it is about. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
Player ratings18 Oct 2027
A mark of 5.79 tells the story without any need for embellishment. He will want the tape of this one quietly lost.
Player ratings18 Oct 2027
Successful dribbles: 9. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market18 Oct 2027
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Albert Pokrovskiy may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
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Upbeat
Player ratings19 Jul 2027
No sign of nerves from Ivan Oborocha at 21 — 8.62
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Ivan Oborocha did not need any: 8.62, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Market19 Jul 2027
The bid was some way short and Yenisey 2 did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad19 Jul 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Yenisey 2 this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad19 Jul 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Nikita Shershov and Yenisey 2 agree another 4 years.
The terraces19 Jul 2027
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.
Match17 Jul 2027
Chertanovo made Yenisey 2 work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.