The Gomel Chronicle
Match17 Apr 2038
Chastening afternoon for Gomel
A 0‑3 beating by Slutsk was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Squad19 Apr 2038
Arseniy Achapovskiy 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 Apr 2038
The goals have deserted Gomel
3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Gomel can tell you which week it ends in.
Squad19 Apr 2038
Vadim Martinkevich 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.
Squad19 Apr 2038
Gomel count the cost of losing Daniil Grishkov
23 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad19 Apr 2038
Tempers go at Gomel
Bogdan Kutsyi was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Boardroom19 Apr 2038
Inquest at Gomel
The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.
Player ratings19 Apr 2038
Nikita Sanko could not find anything
5.70. Every footballer has these and most of them happen away from a full ground; his did not, and he will be aware of that all week.
Player ratings19 Apr 2038
Off the bench and decisive: Benoît Mathieu
The substitution nobody applauded turned out to be the whole story. Gomel were going nowhere until he came on.
In brief
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Yahor Hryshyn
- Boardroom The Gomel production line keeps running