The Ostrovets Post
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
No sign of nerves from Nikita Yakimovich at 20 — 7.76
The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Nikita Yakimovich did not need any: 7.76, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Ostrovets
Pavel Vakulich 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Matvey Papulin falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Match22 Aug 2026
Nikita Yakimovich sends Ostrovets past Lokomotiv Gomel
It finished 2‑1, and it was Nikita Yakimovich’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Ostrovets.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
The crowd has taken to Kirill Goncharik
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.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Alexandr Fedosenko in the eights
A performance of 8.14 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad24 Aug 2026
No hiding place for Vladislav Drozd
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Vladislav Drozd, and the manager let it.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Razvan Mitrita 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.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Danil Ananka runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 11. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
In brief
- Market Franco Peña joins Ostrovets to strengthen the squad
- Player ratings Daniil Tsyk ran the game