The Alania Post
Match24 Jul 2027
9 matches without a win for Alania
The run now stands at 9, and the questions being asked around Alania are no longer polite ones.
Squad26 Jul 2027
David Byazrov keeps Alania in it on his own
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 9 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Player ratings26 Jul 2027
Anzor Amiraliev runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 28. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market26 Jul 2027
Sarmat Ogoev 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 Alania can pretend not to have heard.
Squad26 Jul 2027
Victor Nafikov 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 Alania this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match24 Jul 2027
A bad afternoon for Alania against Textilschik
0‑2 to Textilschik, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad26 Jul 2027
Matvey Lisitsin out for 15 days
The medical room confirms 15 days on the sidelines for Matvey Lisitsin, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
The dugout26 Jul 2027
The manager makes an example of Makhach Abdulkhamidov
“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.
The dugout26 Jul 2027
Vladlen Bogdanov answers for it
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
In brief
- Squad A row about effort at Alania
- Looking ahead Ivan Matyushenko goes back to face Volgar
- The dugout Artur Byazrov knocks on the manager's door