The Metalist Herald
Squad24 May 2027
Words exchanged at Metalist
Daniil Tepliakov 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.
Squad24 May 2027
A row about effort at Metalist
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ivan Holovkin was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market24 May 2027
The Daniil Tepliakov question follows Metalist around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Daniil Tepliakov’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
The dugout24 May 2027
Oleksandr Myziuk has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Metalist will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout24 May 2027
Neyder Lozano has been promised minutes
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Neyder Lozano has written the date down.
The dugout24 May 2027
Cristian Lucca asks for a word with the manager
“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.
In brief
- The dugout Oleh Mozil keeps his manager's vote
- Squad Oleh Mozil is the talk of the training ground
- Squad Yaroslav Sanin is fit again