The Metalurh Zaporizhzhia Courier
Match29 Jul 2028
The wait goes on for Metalurh Zaporizhzhia
5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad31 Jul 2028
Tymofii Machulian is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Match29 Jul 2028
The goals have deserted Metalurh Zaporizhzhia
5 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Metalurh Zaporizhzhia can tell you which week it ends in.
Player ratings31 Jul 2028
Nobody could get near Lucas Henrique
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad31 Jul 2028
Denys Smetana 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 Metalurh Zaporizhzhia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom31 Jul 2028
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Metalurh Zaporizhzhia
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Squad31 Jul 2028
Andrii Savitskyi has improved at 26, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
Match29 Jul 2028
A bad afternoon for Metalurh Zaporizhzhia against Probiy
0‑2 to Probiy, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad31 Jul 2028
The manager makes an example of Timo Königsmann
“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.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Vladyslav Sudakov joins the Metalurh Zaporizhzhia first team
- Market One of our own: Artem Kravets joins the Metalurh Zaporizhzhia first team
- Market Danylo Sydorchuk steps up from the Metalurh Zaporizhzhia academy