The Baranovichi Post
Market20 Mar 2028
Timofey Tkachev hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Baranovichi can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings20 Mar 2028
Aldiiar Ältaev, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.99
A mark of 7.99 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Player ratings20 Mar 2028
Timofey Tkachev runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 26. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad20 Mar 2028
Words exchanged at Baranovichi
Egor Lapun and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad20 Mar 2028
Words at Baranovichi training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Arseniy Galushko 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.
The terraces20 Mar 2028
Baranovichi supporters have found a favourite in Egor Yuschenko
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Egor Yuschenko has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Match18 Mar 2028
Baranovichi see off Lokomotiv Gomel
Three points for Baranovichi, 1‑0 the final word against Lokomotiv Gomel in a contest settled by the finer margins.
The dugout20 Mar 2028
Vitaliy Arlouski: “That is the standard”
“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 1‑0, already talking about the next one.
The dugout20 Mar 2028
Aldiiar Ältaev gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Aldiiar Ältaev is on it.
In brief
- The dugout Uladzimir Filipenko knocks on the manager's door
- Looking ahead Martin Artyukh faces his old club
- Squad Viktar Malevich makes his debut at 18