Marked for Agil Sadygov
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Uneasy
Squad21 Dec 2026
Tempers go at Inter
Ricardo Díaz 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Rahid Sadygov is still paying for one afternoon at Inter
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
Squad21 Dec 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
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Crisis
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 47. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match2 Dec 2026
Inter bow out of the cup
Khazar go through and Inter go home, 1‑2 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Match5 Dec 2026
No end in sight to Inter's wait for a win
6 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Inter has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Tempers go at Inter
Ricardo Díaz 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.
Match5 Dec 2026
A bad afternoon for Inter against Qarabag
0‑2 to Qarabag, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad7 Dec 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.
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Steady
Match14 Nov 2026
Kamran Nadirov had done his part in building a 3-goal cushion. What happened after that was collective, and AZAL were allowed back into a match that had been finished with.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.09, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad16 Nov 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 Inter this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces16 Nov 2026
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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ricardo Díaz, and the manager let it.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Ninety minutes of Agil Sadygov at his very best
Marked 8.51. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Inter.
Match14 Nov 2026
Honours even between Inter and AZAL
3‑3, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Loan watch16 Nov 2026
“I watch every Inter game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Khazar runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Squad16 Nov 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Kamran Jafarov's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
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Steady
Squad7 Sep 2026
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.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Age has not caught Bahlul Sadygov yet — 8.00
At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.00 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Market7 Sep 2026
“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.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Nobody could get near Andy Polar
Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Ricardo Díaz 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 Inter this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Inter training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Andy Polar 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.