Marked for Sandro Mchedlidze
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Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 34. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A fracture rules Davit Shengelia out for 48 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Zugdidi will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market14 Sep 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Zugdidi, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Sandro Mchedlidze 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.
The terraces14 Sep 2026
At 18 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Tornike Janelidze, and the manager let it.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Beka Mchedlidze commits to Zugdidi for another 3 years.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.32 on the card, and the Zugdidi support went home talking about one name.
Match12 Sep 2026
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Samtredia will be the happier side with the point.
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Steady
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 37. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market31 Aug 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Zugdidi can pretend not to have heard.
Squad31 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Zugdidi this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Sandro Mchedlidze 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
Squad31 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Aleksandre Gamsakhurdia, and the manager let it.
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Market24 Aug 2026
Lokomotivi come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Zugdidi did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market24 Aug 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Zugdidi, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad24 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Zugdidi this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match22 Aug 2026
Dinamo Batumi left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Zugdidi training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sandro Mchedlidze 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad24 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Lasha Kiteishvili and Zugdidi agree another 3 years.
Market24 Aug 2026
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Zugdidi has been clear about where Beka Kobiashvili stands, which is more than many ever get.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
Supporters make their feelings known about Goga Kvilitaia
The speculation has reached the stands, and the stands have answered. Zugdidi would like this settled before it becomes the only thing anybody asks about.