The Neman Chronicle
Market25 Jul 2033
Artem Vrublevskiy puts it in writing
“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 The request is on a desk at Neman, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match23 Jul 2033
Neman make home a hard place to visit
12 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
Squad25 Jul 2033
Artur Nazarenko 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 Neman this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market25 Jul 2033
Ivan Kontsevoy attracts admirers
The name of Ivan Kontsevoy has come up in conversations Neman were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Match23 Jul 2033
Alexey Shalashnikov sends Neman past Smorgon
It finished 2‑0, and it was Alexey Shalashnikov’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Neman.
Player ratings25 Jul 2033
Ninety minutes of Alexey Shalashnikov at his very best
Marked 8.20. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Neman.
Player ratings25 Jul 2033
A masterclass from Bogdan Levchenko
Marked 8.01 — 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.
Player ratings25 Jul 2033
Maxim Kravtsov runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad25 Jul 2033
Neman count the cost of losing Mikita Nekhaichik
15 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
In brief
- Market Smorgon are about to pick up the phone
- Squad Artur Nazarenko has become a man the manager trusts
- Squad The manager makes an example of Konstantin Lipnitskiy