The Sumgayit Courier
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Aleksa Janković was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 33. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Match10 Oct 2026
Whatever happens, Sumgayit do not lose
8 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Sumgayit
Ronaldo Vásquez and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Market12 Oct 2026
One of our own: Qara Guseynov joins the Sumgayit first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Qara Guseynov is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Roi Kehat gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Match12 Oct 2026
Halfway: Sumgayit sit in position 4
18 points at the turn. The first half of a season is a promise; the second is a bill, and the town is about to find out which of the two this one was.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Defences have started doubling up on Ronaldo Vásquez
8 goals and a season average of 7.21 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Keffel was the difference for Sumgayit
Marked 7.62. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
Squad12 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Sumgayit
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Agil Amirguliyev was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
In brief
- The dugout The view from the dugout
- The dugout Somebody else is better right now than Kevin Haveri
- Match Point won or two lost for Sumgayit?