The Baltika 2 Gazette
Match28 Nov 2026
Cruel end for Saturn as Baltika 2 pounce
There is no crueller way to lose a football match. Baltika 2 scored in the 92th minute, the restart barely happened, and the away end was still standing when the whistle went.
Market30 Nov 2026
Timofey Schelkunov is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Baltika 2 is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Arnur Sagalbaev, 20, steals the show — 7.71
Marked 7.71 at 20, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Match28 Nov 2026
Baltika 2 cannot stop winning
3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Squad30 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Baltika 2
Arnur Sagalbaev and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The terraces30 Nov 2026
The crowd has taken to Eldzhat Mamedov
At 20 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.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Arseny Popushoy beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 19. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Match28 Nov 2026
Baltika 2 get the job done against Saturn
A 1‑0 win over Saturn, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of David Cherkasov
“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.
In brief
- The dugout The manager’s verdict
- The dugout Somebody else is better right now than Andrey Tsitsilin
- Player ratings Nothing got past David Cherkasov