The Torpedo Moscow Courier
The terraces10 Oct 2033
Anger at Torpedo Moscow spills outside the ground
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Match5 Oct 2033
Torpedo Moscow through in the cup
A 1‑0 win over Kosmos, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Match8 Oct 2033
Torpedo Moscow tear Sokol apart
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 3‑0 against Sokol, and it could have been more.
Player ratings10 Oct 2033
Slobodan Tedić scores twice — 8.84
Two goals and a mark of 8.84 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Player ratings10 Oct 2033
German Romanov, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 7.74
A mark of 7.74 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Player ratings10 Oct 2033
Bojan Roganović, 33, rolls back the years — 8.14
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.14 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Squad10 Oct 2033
Alesson 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 Torpedo Moscow this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces10 Oct 2033
Torpedo Moscow supporters have found a favourite in German Romanov
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 20-year-old it feels ownership of. German Romanov 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.
Player ratings10 Oct 2033
Daniil Kuznetsov in the eights
A performance of 8.47 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
In brief
- Squad Danil Stepanov falls out with a teammate over standards
- Squad Torpedo Moscow lose Matej Budimir
- Squad Daniil Kuznetsov has become a man the manager trusts