The Dinamo St Petersburg Courier
Squad5 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Ilja Kubyshkin out for 86 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Dinamo St Petersburg will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match30 Sep 2026
Dinamo St Petersburg bow out of the cup
Rubin go through and Dinamo St Petersburg go home, 0‑0 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Georgy Korolev is the hero from the spot
A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Georgy Korolev: 1 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Alexey Baev, 33, rolls back the years — 8.49
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.49 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Match3 Oct 2026
9 unbeaten for Dinamo St Petersburg
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 9 matches without defeat is a foundation Dinamo St Petersburg did not have in the autumn.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Georgy Korolev says Dinamo St Petersburg went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Maxim Polkovnikov was immovable
25 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Vladislav Shepelev 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 Dinamo St Petersburg this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Nothing got past Dmitry Borodin
21 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.
In brief
- Boardroom 270% of the income goes out in wages at Dinamo St Petersburg
- The terraces The crowd has taken to Omar Popov
- Match Dinamo St Petersburg see off Metallurg