The Ravan Chronicle
Match9 Sep 2026
The cup run ends for Ravan
0‑1 against Kapaz, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Market14 Sep 2026
Samir Ozobic asks to leave Ravan
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Match12 Sep 2026
4 matches without a win for Ravan
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Ravan are no longer polite ones.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Nobody could get near Agil Madatov
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
A goal and an assist for Nicklas Bärkroth — 7.75
Involvement in 2 goals, from a player who spent the ninety minutes doing the thing a manager actually wants: being where the ball was going to end up. 7.75 beside his name.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Samuel Lobato 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 Ravan this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match12 Sep 2026
Nicklas Bärkroth’s goal not enough for Ravan
Nicklas Bärkroth scored, and precious little else went right: 2‑3 to Khazar, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Ravan training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ruslan Bayramov 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Namig Huseynov
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
In brief
- Squad Nicklas Bärkroth finally opens his account
- Player ratings The pass was always on for Richard Amirguliyev
- Player ratings Namig Huseynov spends the afternoon fouling