The Bylis Chronicle
Player ratings18 Sep 2028
Rabiu Abdullahi was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 35. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad18 Sep 2028
Ionuţ Gurău keeps Bylis in it on his own
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad18 Sep 2028
Words at Bylis training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Aleksandrs Zjuzins 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.
Match16 Sep 2028
Pedro Vieira rescues a point for Bylis
It needed Pedro Vieira to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Tirana, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
The dugout18 Sep 2028
No hiding place for Denis Shera
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Denis Shera, and the manager let it.
The dugout18 Sep 2028
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Bernard Vata was not hiding it after 1‑1, and nobody in the Bylis dressing room was either.
The dugout18 Sep 2028
Aleksandrs Zjuzins does not fit this one
Ninety specific minutes wanted a different sort of player, and the manager picked one. He is not out of form and he is not in the side, and both are true.
Squad18 Sep 2028
A first team debut at 16 for Henry Prendi
Off the academy pitches and into a senior shirt, at 16. The parents in the stand will keep the programme, and so will he.
Market18 Sep 2028
The Pedro Vieira story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Pedro Vieira signs something — a contract at Bylis or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
In brief
- The dugout Tomas Paulauskas knocks on the manager’s door
- Squad “I want to play”: Nikita Korolev speaks
- Market Bylis put Antonio Mando up for sale