The Ludogorets Sentinel
Match25 Dec 2027
Nobody wants to play Ludogorets right now
7 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Player ratings27 Dec 2027
Nobody could get near Bernard Tekpetey
Successful dribbles: 31. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad27 Dec 2027
The step up is real for Ventsi Stoyanov
At 16 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Market27 Dec 2027
Leandro Godoy wants European nights
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Squad27 Dec 2027
Rwan Cruz is in the form of his life
A season average of 7.27 with 14 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Squad27 Dec 2027
A falling-out at Ludogorets
Emerson Rodríguez and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout27 Dec 2027
No hiding place for Sergio Padt
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Sergio Padt, and the manager let it.
Match25 Dec 2027
Ludogorets see off Arda
Three points for Ludogorets, 2‑0 the final word against Arda in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad27 Dec 2027
Ludogorets count the cost of losing Krasimir Ivanov
32 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
In brief
- Player ratings One of those days for Rwan Cruz
- Player ratings Leandro Godoy in the eights
- The dugout The view from the dugout