Marked for Asilder Temirsultanov
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Uneasy
Squad6 Sep 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 39 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Magomed Ibragimov and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad6 Sep 2027
“I have done everything asked of me in training and it has not changed a thing on a Saturday.” The most familiar complaint in football, and one Dinamo Makhachkala 2 will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.
Market6 Sep 2027
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Nikita Karabashev’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Squad6 Sep 2027
A decision that decides nothing on the pitch and everything in the room. The manager has said, without saying it, whose voice he wants heard when his own is not there.
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Steady
Market25 Jan 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Dinamo Makhachkala 2 can pretend not to have heard.
Squad25 Jan 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Dinamo Makhachkala 2 this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces25 Jan 2027
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Islam Mikhteev has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Player ratings25 Jan 2027
A mark of 7.04, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Arsen Shikhaliev, and the manager let it.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
Match23 Jan 2027
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Angusht will be the happier side with the point.
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Steady
Squad11 Jan 2027
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Arsen Shikhaliev is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Zainudin Zainudinov and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Match9 Jan 2027
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Amin Khachaev 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.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Denis Filatov to a room that had heard them before.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Magomed Ibragimov, 20, is the weekend’s best young player
Measured against every other kid in the division and first among them. The senior award is where Dinamo Makhachkala 2 would like this to lead.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
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.
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Crisis
Market21 Dec 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Dinamo Makhachkala 2, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 20 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Words at Dinamo Makhachkala 2 training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Magomed Abdullabekov 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.
Match19 Dec 2026
Rubin Yalta left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
Squad21 Dec 2026
A booking nobody needed, on a night the game was already won. Dinamo Makhachkala 2 lose a player for the most avoidable reason there is.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
Said Utsumiev 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.
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Uneasy
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Marked 7.98 at 21, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Match12 Dec 2026
6 matches without a win, and then this, against Sevastopol. Relief is a strange noise in a football ground and it was the only noise at the end.
The terraces14 Dec 2026
He is 21 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Match12 Dec 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Magomed Ibragimov. 2‑0 against Sevastopol, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Marked 8.13 — 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.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Denis Filatov on a 2‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Dinamo Makhachkala 2 told Asilder Temirsultanov something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
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.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
The shape wanted a different profile against this opponent, which is a real football answer and no comfort at all to the man it is about. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
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Uneasy
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Dinamo Makhachkala 2 may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Match28 Nov 2026
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Dinamo Makhachkala 2 has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad30 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Dinamo Makhachkala 2 this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Marked 8.04 — 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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Arsen Shikhaliev 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.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
Match28 Nov 2026
A 1‑1 draw with Zarya Lugansk leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Denis Filatov after the 1‑1 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
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Crisis
Squad9 Nov 2026
Magomed Ibragimov and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Serder Serderov, and the manager let it.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Amin Khachaev 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.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Denis Filatov after 1‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
Serder Serderov 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.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
The manager wanted a different profile for this opponent, which is a real football reason and no consolation. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
Market9 Nov 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Kamil Tashtemirov’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Marked 5.65. Nothing he attempted worked and by the hour mark he had stopped attempting much, which is the part a manager notices rather than the mistakes.
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Steady
Squad26 Oct 2026
Magomed Abdullabekov 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.
Match24 Oct 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Denis Filatov after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Squad26 Oct 2026
The division's best last weekend was a Dinamo Makhachkala 2 man
It is a small honour and it is not nothing: somebody watched every match in the division and decided that Serder Serderov was the best thing in any of them.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“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.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
The shape wanted a different profile against this opponent, which is a real football answer and no comfort at all to the man it is about. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
Market26 Oct 2026
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Dinamo Makhachkala 2 know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Upbeat
Match17 Oct 2026
3‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Squad19 Oct 2026
3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.
Squad19 Oct 2026
At 20 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad19 Oct 2026
20 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Magomed Abdullabekov 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.
The terraces19 Oct 2026
At 18 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Marked 8.23 — 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.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 3‑0, already talking about the next one.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“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.
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Upbeat
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
No sign of nerves from Islam Mikhteev at 21 — 8.05
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Islam Mikhteev did not need any: 8.05, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad28 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Dinamo Makhachkala 2 this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces28 Sep 2026
He is 21 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Serder Serderov was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.19. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Amin Khachaev 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.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Denis Filatov on a 2‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 13. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
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Crisis
Squad17 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 9 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Magomed Ibragimov and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Match15 Aug 2026
0‑2 to Nart, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Magomed Ibragimov, and the manager let it.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
The game went through Khizri Khidiev — 7.03
Marked 7.03 on 11 actions at both ends of the pitch. Midfielders like this get described as unspectacular by people who have never tried to play against one.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Amin Khachaev 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.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Denis Filatov after 0‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
The manager wanted a different profile for this opponent, which is a real football reason and no consolation. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
Khizri Khidiev wants a proper job in this side
Shifted about, taken off before the hour, asked to do somebody else's running — Khizri Khidiev has had enough of being useful and would like to be picked. Dinamo Makhachkala 2 know, and have known for weeks.