The Lokomotiv Moscow Sentinel
Match15 Jul 2028
Lokomotiv Moscow tear Dinamo Makhachkala apart
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 4‑0 against Dinamo Makhachkala, and it could have been more.
Match15 Jul 2028
Nobody wins at Lokomotiv Moscow
16 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.
Player ratings17 Jul 2028
Both of them Nino's — 8.66
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.66, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad17 Jul 2028
Daniil Veselov 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.
Market17 Jul 2028
Nino wants European nights
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Squad17 Jul 2028
César Montes 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 Lokomotiv Moscow this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings17 Jul 2028
A masterclass from Sergey Pinyaev
Marked 9.62 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Boardroom17 Jul 2028
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Lokomotiv Moscow
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Squad17 Jul 2028
Words at Lokomotiv Moscow training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Zelimkhan Bakaev 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.
In brief
- Squad Fasson has improved at 27, which nobody expected
- The terraces Lokomotiv Moscow supporters have found a favourite in Sergey Pinyaev
- Market Lokomotiv Moscow promote Fedor Ushakov from within