The Torpedo Moscow Courier
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Age has not caught Kirill Gotsuk yet — 7.81
At 34 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.81 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Mario Ćurić 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 Torpedo Moscow this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Words at Torpedo Moscow training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ruslan Apekov 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.
The terraces9 Nov 2026
The crowd has taken to Vladislav Shitov
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Match7 Nov 2026
Torpedo Moscow get the job done against Yenisey
A 2‑0 win over Yenisey, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Market9 Nov 2026
Torpedo Moscow promote Ivan Ermakov from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Ivan Ermakov 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.
Match7 Nov 2026
Vladislav Shitov at the heart of a fast Torpedo Moscow start
2 goals inside twenty minutes with Vladislav Shitov in the middle of it, and Yenisey unable to get near the ball long enough to change anything. Some matches are won before the first drink.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
One of those days for Ruslan Apekov
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.37, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Torpedo Moscow lose Fedot Kuznetsov
23 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
In brief
- Player ratings Daniil Utkin was unplayable
- The dugout The form table has caught Rostislav Soldatenko
- The dugout Vyacheslav Serov: “That is the standard”