The Metallurg Herald
Match6 Mar 2027
12 matches without a win for Metallurg
The run now stands at 12, and the questions being asked around Metallurg are no longer polite ones.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Suhrobjon Sultonov damages knee ligaments — 45 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 45 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.
Player ratings8 Mar 2027
Mirkomil Murodov, 17, plays like he has been here for years — 7.62
A mark of 7.62 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 17-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Player ratings8 Mar 2027
Dostonbek Hamdamov beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 24. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Armin Bošnjak signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Armin Bošnjak and Metallurg agree another 2 years.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Branimir Jočić wants to go home
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Metallurg know it.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Tempers go at Metallurg
Azimjon Ahmedov 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.
Match6 Mar 2027
Nobody could stop scoring
6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Metallurg and Qizilqum in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Match6 Mar 2027
Mirkomil Murodov’s goal not enough for Metallurg
Mirkomil Murodov scored, and precious little else went right: 2‑4 to Qizilqum, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
In brief
- Boardroom 5 academy graduates step up at Metallurg
- Market Metallurg promote Doniyor Fayzullaev from within
- Market One of our own: Odil Fayzullaev joins the Metallurg first team