The Obod Sentinel
Match26 Aug 2026
Obod out of the cup
Nasaf ended it 0‑1. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Market31 Aug 2026
Jasur Akhmedov asks to leave Obod
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Zakaria Messibah 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
3 matches without a goal for Obod
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at Obod training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Shohruh Komilov 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Aziz Masharipov
“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.
Match29 Aug 2026
No goals between Obod and Lokomotiv
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Lokomotiv will be the happier side with the point.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Sergei Devyatkin 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.
Market31 Aug 2026
Sherzod Nematov is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Obod has been clear about where Sherzod Nematov stands, which is more than many ever get.
In brief
- Player ratings Sergei Devyatkin could not find anything
- Player ratings Zakaria Messibah never got going
- Player ratings Jaloliddin Ahmedov could not find anything