Marked for Andrei Yablonski
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match31 Mar 2027
Isloch out of the cup
Lokomotiv Gomel ended it 0‑1. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Player ratings5 Apr 2027
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.67, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Match3 Apr 2027
At last: Isloch win one
11 matches without a win, and then this, against Orsha. Relief is a strange noise in a football ground and it was the only noise at the end.
The dugout5 Apr 2027
Denis Voychenko: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Isloch have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Match3 Apr 2027
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Alexandr Butko. 3‑1 against Orsha, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Tempers go at Isloch
Andrey Makarenko 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.
Player ratings5 Apr 2027
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout5 Apr 2027
“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.
Squad5 Apr 2027
50 goals for this club, and somewhere in the stand there is a person who can still tell you where they were for most of them.
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Squad5 Apr 2027
There were 10 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Match31 Mar 2027
Lida bow out of the cup
Arsenal Dzerzhinsk go through and Lida 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.
The dugout5 Apr 2027
Artur Chuyko: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Lida have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Match3 Apr 2027
4 matches without a win for Lida
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Lida are no longer polite ones.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Iliyan Dimitrov is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Tempers go at Lida
Alexey Legchilin 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.
Loan watch5 Apr 2027
“I watch every Lida game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Isloch runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Player ratings5 Apr 2027
Sergey Zhurnevich ran the middle of the pitch — 6.51
He won it back and then made something of it, which is two jobs and the reason the scoreline looks the way it does. 11 combined actions and a mark of 6.51, and not one of them will make a highlights package.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Words at Lida training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Artur Chuduk 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.
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Uneasy
Market22 Feb 2027
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Uni-X Labs waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Isloch is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Market22 Feb 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market22 Feb 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Isloch is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad22 Feb 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Isloch this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets22 Feb 2027
Dnepr Mogilev wanted more than $85.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Transfer targets22 Feb 2027
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad22 Feb 2027
A row about effort at Isloch
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nikita Patsko was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets22 Feb 2027
Isloch have made the call to Lida. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Squad22 Feb 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Jaroslav Růžička commits to Isloch for another 3 years.