The Akzhaiyk Sentinel
Match20 Mar 2027
Azat Postnikov leads the rout of Atyrau
3‑0, and Azat Postnikov took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Akzhaiyk tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Player ratings22 Mar 2027
Azat Postnikov scores twice — 8.62
Two goals and a mark of 8.62 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
The dugout22 Mar 2027
Serikzhan Nurgaliev says Akzhaiyk went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad22 Mar 2027
A move Ozodbek Marufov would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Ozodbek Marufov is living that version at Akzhaiyk, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Words at Akzhaiyk training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Talğat Kusiapov is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Match20 Mar 2027
The drought breaks for Akzhaiyk
5 without a win is the sort of run that changes how a town talks about its club, and Atyrau were the afternoon it stopped. Nothing is fixed by one result and everything feels different by one.
Player ratings22 Mar 2027
Rinat Nurgaliev in the eights
A performance of 8.07 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad22 Mar 2027
A falling-out at Akzhaiyk
Abdulaziz Al-Asbahi and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Ozodbek Marufov signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ozodbek Marufov commits to Akzhaiyk for another 3 years.
In brief
- The dugout Aibol Taykenov has his say
- The dugout No hiding place for Gafurzhan Logvinenko
- The dugout The plan did not have a place for Leiner Lobo