Marked for Danyil Hrechko
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Uneasy
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 36. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 16 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad26 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Vorskla
Oleh Mozil and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match24 Oct 2026
Whatever happens, Vorskla do not lose
6 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad26 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Vorskla
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Vadym Chervak was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Oleh Mozil, and the manager let it.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Andriy Tymchyk chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Somebody watched every match in the division at the weekend and decided he was the best thing in any of them. A small honour, and most careers end without one.
Match24 Oct 2026
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Chernihiv will be the happier side with the point.
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Uneasy
Squad19 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Danyil Hrechko out for 24 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Vorskla will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.44 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Match17 Oct 2026
At last: Vorskla win one
10 matches without a win, and then this, against Victoriia Sumy. Relief is a strange noise in a football ground and it was the only noise at the end.
Squad19 Oct 2026
At 22 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad19 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 Vorskla this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Vladyslav Semotiuk 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 terraces19 Oct 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 20-year-old it feels ownership of. Matvii Burenko 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
It finished 2‑0, and it was Vladyslav Kalitvintsev’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Vorskla.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Andriy Tymchyk on a 2‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
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Uneasy
Squad12 Oct 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 31 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Eduard Romanets is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 20 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.
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 Vorskla this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Vorskla are still strangers to each other
12 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
Market12 Oct 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Vorskla, another week without a signature from Matthijs van Nispen.
Looking ahead12 Oct 2026
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Maksym Kovaliov’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Vorskla needing him to play as if none of it matters.
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Uneasy
Match3 Oct 2026
10 matches without a win for Vorskla
The run now stands at 10, and the questions being asked around Vorskla are no longer polite ones.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Danyil Hrechko out for 38 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Vorskla will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match3 Oct 2026
5 matches without a goal for Vorskla
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 5 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Transfer targets5 Oct 2026
Everything agreed with another club, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Matvii Burenko is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 20 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Volodymyr Adamiuk and Vorskla agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Vorskla
Yehor Popravka and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Wages eat 89% of everything Vorskla earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
A mark of 7.23, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
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Uneasy
Match26 Sep 2026
No end in sight to Vorskla's wait for a win
9 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Vorskla has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad28 Sep 2026
A fracture rules Danyil Hrechko out for 46 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Vorskla will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match26 Sep 2026
Vorskla cannot find the net
4 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Squad28 Sep 2026
At 21 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad28 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Vorskla
Vadym Chervak and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Vladyslav Semotiuk 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 dugout28 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Oleh Mozil
“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.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
7.23, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Vorskla had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 0‑0, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.