The Metalurh Zaporizhzhia Courier
Squad16 Nov 2026
The knee: Heorhiy Lunyov out for 18 days
18 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Metalurh Zaporizhzhia lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Viktor Mokrytskyi says Metalurh Zaporizhzhia went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Ivan Holovkin 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 Metalurh Zaporizhzhia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Artem Sitalo 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.
Market16 Nov 2026
Nazar Baida linked with a move away
The name of Nazar Baida keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Metalurh Zaporizhzhia say nothing, which says plenty.
Looking ahead16 Nov 2026
Home comforts ahead for Metalurh Zaporizhzhia
Chernihiv, position 4, come to town on Saturday. Nobody will call it a big game and nobody at the club will be treating it as anything else.
In brief
- Squad The training reports on Yaroslav Dziubko are not good
- The dugout The manager comes out for Artem Sitalo