Nika Tsitaishvili

Defensive Midfielder - Obod
18 Oct 2026
Sunday
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The Obod Sentinel

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

9 saves: Farhod Akhmedov was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 9 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Match

Obod out of the cup

Pakhtakor ended it 0‑3. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.

The terraces

A cup embarrassment at Pakhtakor follows Obod home

0-3. Going out of a cup is one afternoon; going out like that is a week of phone-ins, and the manager will hear every one of them.

Squad

Tempers go at Obod

Umid Mirzaev was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Transfer targets

Bunyodkor tell Obod: Sadriddin Hasanov is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Match

Neftchi take the points off Obod

Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

The dugout

No hiding place for Farhod Akhmedov

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Farhod Akhmedov, and the manager let it.

Boardroom

Nobody left the Obod dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

The dugout

Odil Mirzaev: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 1‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

In brief