Illia Sosnytskyi

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Marked for Illia Sosnytskyi

11 Edition

The Metalist Chronicle

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad12 Oct 2026

Illia Sosnytskyi breaks a bone — 19 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 19 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad12 Oct 2026

Illia Krupskyi 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 Metalist this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad12 Oct 2026

Oleksandr Martyniuk stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Oleksandr Martyniuk and Metalist agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad12 Oct 2026

A row about effort at Metalist

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Baton Zabërgja was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout12 Oct 2026

Baton Zabërgja knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Baton Zabërgja trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Looking ahead12 Oct 2026

Denys Antiukh faces his old club

Zorya next, and one man in the Metalist dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.

Market12 Oct 2026

The Peter Itodo talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Metalist know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

Loan watch12 Oct 2026

The goals keep arriving from Kristian Mba’s exile

6 goals in 9 games at Chornomorets — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Metalist updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.

The dugout12 Oct 2026

Ramik Hadzhyiev gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Ramik Hadzhyiev is on it.

In brief

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10 Edition

The Metalist Chronicle

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad5 Oct 2026

The knee: Illia Krupskyi out for 21 days

21 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Metalist lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Player ratings5 Oct 2026

A brace, and Carlos Paraco takes the afternoon — 8.71

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Carlos Paraco provided it, and the 8.71 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Squad5 Oct 2026

27 days out for Illia Sosnytskyi after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Metalist will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Squad5 Oct 2026

A one-man rearguard from Heorhii Yermakov

There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Rafael Profini wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Metalist know it.

Match3 Oct 2026

Metalist get the job done against LNZ

A 2‑1 win over LNZ, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Loan watch5 Oct 2026

Yaroslav Protsenko counts the days

“I watch every Metalist game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Ahrobiznes runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.

The terraces5 Oct 2026

Metalist supporters have found a favourite in Carlos Paraco

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Carlos Paraco 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 ratings5 Oct 2026

Artem Smolyakov was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 16. 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.

In brief