The Strogino Post
Squad21 Sep 2026
Ilja Zakharov damages knee ligaments — 26 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 26 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match19 Sep 2026
No end in sight to Strogino's wait for a win
8 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Strogino has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad21 Sep 2026
6 saves: Magomed-Deni Tsutsulaev was the team
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Market21 Sep 2026
Denis Dragan has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Strogino they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Strogino
Andrey Alexeenkov 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.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Eldar Guseinov did the work nobody counts — 6.84
13 combined actions and 6.84. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.
Transfer targets21 Sep 2026
SKA Khabarovsk tell Strogino: Demjan Iljev is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words at Strogino training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ilja Zakharov 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.
Match19 Sep 2026
A bad afternoon for Strogino against Metallurg
0‑2 to Metallurg, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
In brief
- The dugout Anton Belyakov: “No excuses”
- The dugout Sergey Guzyuk asks for a word with the manager
- The dugout Evgeniy Kudryashov gets it from the manager