The Krasnodar Post
Match25 Dec 2027
The run is over for Krasnodar
7 matches without defeat, and then CSKA Moscow. Nobody at the ground pretended it would go on forever; nobody expected it to stop here either.
Match25 Dec 2027
Krasnodar come up short against CSKA Moscow
CSKA Moscow left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad27 Dec 2027
Ivan Fedko out for 42 days
The medical room confirms 42 days on the sidelines for Ivan Fedko, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Player ratings27 Dec 2027
Nobody could get near Christian
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout27 Dec 2027
Stepan Mikhaylov: “No excuses”
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑1, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
Boardroom27 Dec 2027
Krasnodar bank $1.7M from an old deal
The unglamorous genius of a well-written contract. Batxi is somebody else's player now, and $1.7M has arrived because the people who sold him thought further ahead than the transfer window.
The dugout27 Dec 2027
No hiding place for Igor Leschuk
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Igor Leschuk, and the manager let it.
The dugout27 Dec 2027
Igor Leschuk is still being punished for one mistake
Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.
Loan watch27 Dec 2027
Nobody is scoring past Alexandr Koryakin at Akhmat Grozny
7 shut-outs in 21 games. A goalkeeper’s loan is judged on the afternoons when nothing happened at all, and Alexandr Koryakin has been having a lot of them.
In brief
- The dugout When it matters, Sergey Petrov plays
- Market Christian linked with a move away
- Looking ahead Daniil Utkin faces his old club