The Epicentr Sentinel
Match31 Jul 2027
Whatever happens, Epicentr do not lose
11 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad2 Aug 2027
Kyrylo Kovalets 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 Epicentr this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market2 Aug 2027
The Oleh Bilyk conversation is coming
Everyone has stopped pretending: Kudrivka will make the call about Oleh Bilyk this week. Epicentr have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.
Boardroom2 Aug 2027
6 academy players handed senior numbers at Epicentr
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.
Squad2 Aug 2027
Words at Epicentr training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marian Shved is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Match31 Jul 2027
Andrii Boriachuk the difference as Epicentr beat Obolon
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Andrii Boriachuk. 2‑1 against Obolon, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings2 Aug 2027
A masterclass from Andrii Boriachuk
Marked 8.71 — 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.
Market2 Aug 2027
Epicentr promote Vitaliy Boyko from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Vitaliy Boyko has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market2 Aug 2027
One of our own: Nazariy Kovalenko joins the Epicentr first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Nazariy Kovalenko is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market Epicentr promote Pavlo Malynovskyi from within
- Squad Stanislav Krystin stays put
- Player ratings Mykola Myroniuk runs at them all day