The Obod Sentinel
Match24 Jul 2027
Obod end the wait against Metallurg
It had gone 24 games. The players did not celebrate like men who had won a match; they celebrated like men who had been let out of something.
Squad26 Jul 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Farhod Ganiev
102 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Obod lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings26 Jul 2027
Ibrohim G'anixonov scores twice — 8.80
Two goals and a mark of 8.80 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Transfer targets26 Jul 2027
Izzatillo Po'latov is a medical away from Obod
The deal with Neftchi is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Transfer targets26 Jul 2027
Obod rebuffed over Hamidullo Abdunabiyev
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Navbahor have kept their man, and Obod go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad26 Jul 2027
Abdulla Suyunov 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 Obod this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces26 Jul 2027
The crowd has taken to Aziz Mirzaev
At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Match24 Jul 2027
Obod see off Metallurg
Three points for Obod, 2‑0 the final word against Metallurg in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad26 Jul 2027
Obod lose Otabek Shomurodov
36 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
In brief
- The dugout Timur Nematov frozen out at Obod
- Squad A muscle injury sidelines Umid Mirzaev for 14 days
- The dugout Abdulla Komilov: “That is the standard”