The Pakhtakor Sentinel
Match19 Sep 2026
Pakhtakor make it 5 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Pakhtakor have 5 straight wins of it.
Market21 Sep 2026
Hojimat Erkinov has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Pakhtakor they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Nobody could get near Hojimat Erkinov
Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Bashar Resan 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 Pakhtakor this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match19 Sep 2026
Piotr Parzyszek sends Pakhtakor past Neftchi
It finished 2‑1, and it was Piotr Parzyszek’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Pakhtakor.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Aziz Turg'unboyev in the eights
A performance of 8.75 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
A masterclass from Piotr Parzyszek
Marked 8.34 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad21 Sep 2026
No hiding place for Zaid Tahseen
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Zaid Tahseen, and the manager let it.
Market21 Sep 2026
Taraz are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Pakhtakor will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
In brief
- Squad Pakhtakor lose Dilshod Abdullayev
- Squad Sherzod Nasrullayev asks for a word with the manager
- Market Sherzod Nasrullayev linked with a move away