Urho Vaisanen

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17 Sep 2028
Sunday
Process

Marked for Urho Vaisanen

109 Edition

The Nyva Post

28 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Illia Olkhovyi keeps Nyva in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Market

Urho Vaisanen hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Nyva can pretend not to have heard.

Match

The wait goes on for Nyva

5 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Nyva

Valentyn Napuda 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.

Squad

Real improvement from Lasha Gadilia at Nyva

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Lasha Gadilia is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad

Words at Nyva training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Maksym Lopyrionok 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.

Match

A bad afternoon for Nyva against Dynamo Kyiv

1‑2 to Dynamo Kyiv, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Player ratings

Valentyn Napuda runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 12. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings

Germán González could not find anything

5.40. Every footballer has these and most of them happen away from a full ground; his did not, and he will be aware of that all week.

In brief

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108 Edition

The Nyva Post

21 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Valentyn Napuda is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 23 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Match

4 matches without a win for Nyva

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Nyva are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Maksym Lopyrionok 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 Nyva this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Illia Olkhovyi has improved at 25, which nobody expected

Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.

Squad

Words at Nyva training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Vasyl Burtnyk 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.

Match

Nyva come up short against Kryvbas

Kryvbas left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Denys Rezepov

Successful dribbles: 12. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Player ratings

Milan Mykhalchuk could not find anything

5.33. Every footballer has these and most of them happen away from a full ground; his did not, and he will be aware of that all week.

Market

The Denys Rezepov talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Nyva know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

In brief

102 Edition

The Nyva Post

10 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Maksym Lopyrionok 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 Nyva this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Denys Rezepov has improved at 26, which nobody expected

Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.

Squad

Urho Vaisanen gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Urho Vaisanen has just signed for Nyva, and for once the answer mattered.

In brief