The Vitebsk Herald
Squad12 Jul 2032
Roman Lisovskiy damages knee ligaments — 16 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 16 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market12 Jul 2032
Vitebsk turn down Isloch for Bekmurodjon Abduraimjonov
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Match10 Jul 2032
Whatever happens, Vitebsk do not lose
7 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad12 Jul 2032
Roman Lisovskiy 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 Vitebsk this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Jul 2032
Víctor Florentín falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Player ratings12 Jul 2032
Alexander Rodríguez in the eights
A performance of 8.98 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Match10 Jul 2032
Vitebsk find a way past Smorgon
Smorgon made Vitebsk work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad12 Jul 2032
Vitebsk pick somebody else ahead of Alexandr Anufriev
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
Player ratings12 Jul 2032
Nothing got past Semyon Yegorov
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 12 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
In brief
- Market Talks stall between Vitebsk and Nikita Vekhtev
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Víctor Florentín
- Market Izei Solís leaves for nothing