The Obod Sentinel
Match1 May 2027
The wait goes on for Obod
13 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad3 May 2027
Dušan Puletić wants to go home
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Obod know it.
Match1 May 2027
Obod come up short against Neftchi
Neftchi left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout3 May 2027
No hiding place for Aziz Mirzaev
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Aziz Mirzaev, and the manager let it.
Player ratings3 May 2027
Ibrohim G'anixonov runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout3 May 2027
Abdulla Komilov: “No excuses”
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑1, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
Squad3 May 2027
A step back for Nodir Fayzullaev at Obod
Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.
The dugout3 May 2027
Jahongir Abdumo'minov 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.
Squad3 May 2027
Words at Obod training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Asilbek Tojiddinov 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.
In brief
- The dugout Jahongir Abdumo'minov asks for a word with the manager
- Looking ahead A reunion for Azizbek Odilov
- Market Akmal Mirzaev leaves for nothing