The Chelyabinsk 2 Courier
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Yury Rudakov runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 38. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Mikhail Chumak 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 Chelyabinsk 2 this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces10 Aug 2026
The crowd has taken to Yury Rudakov
At 23 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.
Match8 Aug 2026
Baba N'Diaye the difference as Chelyabinsk 2 beat Akron 2
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Baba N'Diaye. 1‑0 against Akron 2, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Market10 Aug 2026
Chelyabinsk 2 and Alexandr Novosad are talking past each other
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I want to play”: Alexandr Novosad speaks
“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.
In brief
- Squad Chelyabinsk 2 pick somebody else ahead of Alexandr Novosad
- Squad The manager makes an example of Ivan Vostrov