The Krasnodar Post
Match12 Apr 2028
Cup progress for Krasnodar
A 2‑1 win over Lokomotiv Moscow, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Squad17 Apr 2028
Defences have started doubling up on Eduard Spertsyan
17 goals and a season average of 7.92 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Squad17 Apr 2028
A one-man rearguard from Stanislav Agkatsev
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad17 Apr 2028
Diego Costa 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 Krasnodar this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings17 Apr 2028
A masterclass from Diego Costa
Marked 9.24 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Player ratings17 Apr 2028
Batxi runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings17 Apr 2028
Eduard Spertsyan in the eights
A performance of 8.58 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Loan watch17 Apr 2028
German Kudryavtsev has seen enough of Dinamo Moscow
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Krasnodar, and 0 appearances in 9 say he has earned the hearing.
Squad17 Apr 2028
No hiding place for Gustavo Santos
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Gustavo Santos, and the manager let it.
In brief
- Player ratings The one thing Jhon Córdoba could not do
- Market The Alexandr Chernikov talk will not go away
- The terraces The press have found their man in Eduard Spertsyan