The Fakel Courier
Match13 Nov 2027
Fakel run riot against Yenisey
3‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Match13 Nov 2027
Still nobody has beaten Fakel
The unbeaten run reaches 8. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad15 Nov 2027
Tempers go at Fakel
Vyacheslav Yakimov was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad15 Nov 2027
Ilnur Alshin falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Player ratings15 Nov 2027
Ninety minutes of Kirill Danilin at his very best
Marked 8.34. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Fakel.
Squad15 Nov 2027
Fakel lose Luka Belyaev
19 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Player ratings15 Nov 2027
Ninety minutes of Axel Gnapi Dable at his very best
Marked 8.15. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Fakel.
Player ratings15 Nov 2027
Ninety minutes of Nichita Moțpan at his very best
Marked 8.08. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Fakel.
Player ratings15 Nov 2027
Nobody could get near Nikolay Giorgobiani
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
In brief
- Squad The manager makes an example of Butta Magomedov
- Market Ravil Netfullin linked with a move away
- The terraces The press have found their man in Kirill Danilin