The Obod Sentinel
Squad12 Apr 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Eldor Hasanov
26 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Obod lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match10 Apr 2027
10 matches without a win for Obod
The run now stands at 10, and the questions being asked around Obod are no longer polite ones.
Match10 Apr 2027
Obod cannot find the net
7 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.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Words exchanged at Obod
Filip Sredojević 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.
Match10 Apr 2027
Obod come up short against Metallurg
Metallurg left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout12 Apr 2027
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 0‑1 Islom Komilov left the room before anybody could ask which.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Sardor Tukhtasinov 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.
The dugout12 Apr 2027
Abdulla Suyunov 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.
The dugout12 Apr 2027
Nemanja Ilić 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 Nemanja Ilić trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
In brief
- Player ratings Aziz Masharipov was unplayable
- The dugout The plan did not have a place for Husan G'anijonov
- Squad Davronbek Rahmonov has had enough of the bench