The SKA Khabarovsk 2 Herald
Match15 Aug 2026
SKA Khabarovsk 2 taken apart
0‑3 to Metallurg, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tempers go at SKA Khabarovsk 2
Nürtilek Sulaymanov 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.
Match15 Aug 2026
SKA Khabarovsk 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.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
Maxim Ulezko 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Nikolay Kuralenya 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.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Nobody left the SKA Khabarovsk 2 dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑3 Yegor Reshetnikov left the room before anybody could ask which.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
SKA Khabarovsk 2 pick somebody else ahead of Vladislav Nikiforov
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.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
No place in the plan for Maxim Ulezko
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.
In brief
- Squad Ivan Andrakhovich has company in his position
- Player ratings Vladislav Zykh runs at them all day
- Squad Vladislav Nikiforov speaks, and the room listens