The Zenit Penza Post
Match16 Jan 2027
At last: Zenit Penza win one
15 matches without a win, and then this, against Rotor 2. Relief is a strange noise in a football ground and it was the only noise at the end.
Squad18 Jan 2027
A falling-out at Zenit Penza
Alexey Naidenov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The terraces18 Jan 2027
Zenit Penza supporters have found a favourite in Yaroslav Terechev
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Yaroslav Terechev 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.
Match16 Jan 2027
Zenit Penza find a way past Rotor 2
Rotor 2 made Zenit Penza work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Words at Zenit Penza training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gleb Geikin 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.
Player ratings18 Jan 2027
Nobody on the pitch touched Yaroslav Terechev
7.55, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Zenit Penza had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
Vsevolod Zinovyev has his say
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Vsevolod Zinovyev on a 1‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
No hiding place for Alexandr Kalinovsky
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Alexandr Kalinovsky, and the manager let it.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
Mukhamed Mizaushev knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Mukhamed Mizaushev trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
In brief
- Market The Evgeny Yegorov question follows Zenit Penza around
- The dugout Yury Fedoseev does not fit this one
- Market The shop window has Nikita Kolesin in it