The AZAL Courier
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Both of them Samir Huseynov's — 8.71
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.71, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Javid Ozobic out for 38 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason AZAL will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at AZAL
Cavid Medvedev 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.
Match3 Oct 2026
Ravan take the points off AZAL
Beaten 2‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
Renat Mammadov 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Cavid Madatov 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Richard Sadygov signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Richard Sadygov commits to AZAL for another 1 years.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
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 2‑3 Orkhan Nadirov left the room before anybody could ask which.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
Renat Mammadov dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
In brief
- Player ratings Cavid Madatov leaves them behind him
- Player ratings The one thing Cavid Medvedev could not do
- Market The Samir Huseynov story refuses to die