The Luki-Energiya Courier
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Alexandr Kukharchuk did the work nobody counts — 6.76
16 combined actions and 6.76. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words at Luki-Energiya training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ilja Salnikov 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.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Lev Ushakhin gets it from the manager
“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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Too much change too quickly at Luki-Energiya
9 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Igor Shestakov runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Ilja Mamkin was the difference for Luki-Energiya
Marked 7.14. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
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.” Anton Yelagin chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
The form table has caught Igor Kurbanov
Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.
Match24 Oct 2026
Luki-Energiya and Cherepovets cancel each other out
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Cherepovets came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
In brief
- Player ratings The one thing Yegor Pankov could not do
- The dugout Alexey Pipo left out for tactical reasons at Luki-Energiya
- Squad Nikita Gorbachev wants out of the dugout