The Irtysh Chronicle
Match17 Oct 2026
13 matches without a win for Irtysh
The run now stands at 13, and the questions being asked around Irtysh are no longer polite ones.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Giovanni Farneti beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 23. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Alexandr Smirnov 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 Irtysh this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match17 Oct 2026
The goals have deserted Irtysh
3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Irtysh can tell you which week it ends in.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Dmitry Khokhlov 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
Irtysh come up short against Torpedo Miass
Torpedo Miass left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
No hiding place for Aznaur Geryugov
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Aznaur Geryugov, and the manager let it.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
Denis Kuzin: “No excuses”
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑1, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
Mark Isong asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
In brief
- The dugout Yury Bavin does not fit this one
- Squad Roman Yanushkovskiy says his piece
- Squad Andriy Vyskrebentsev is back in contention