The Rotor 2 Post
Squad17 Aug 2026
Timofey Falchenko 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 Rotor 2 this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match15 Aug 2026
Rotor 2 cannot find the net
3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Maxim Khramtsov takes the honours
Marked 7.40 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Rotor 2 had the best player on the pitch.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
Vasily Chaykovsky: “We have to be better”
“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.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
Somebody else is better right now than Semyon Zubarev
The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
The one thing Adrian Platon could not do
Shots: 7, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.
Match15 Aug 2026
Rotor 2 draw a blank against Kvant
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Kvant defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
Stepan Pravkin does not fit this one
Ninety specific minutes wanted a different sort of player, and the manager picked one. He is not out of form and he is not in the side, and both are true.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Yegor Tarin
Successful dribbles: 10. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
In brief
- Squad Somebody is after Yegor Tarin’s shirt
- Market Rotor 2 put Nikita Plotnikov up for sale
- Squad Alexey Pogudin says his piece