Aleksei Plotnikov

Left Forward - Ryazan
23 Nov 2032
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The Ryazan Post

18 Oct 2032
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

No mercy from Ryazan

Chelyabinsk 2 will want this one forgotten quickly: 7‑1, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Ryazan were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.

Squad

Alexey Osipov wins the shoot-out

2 kept out from twelve yards, and a stadium that will describe each of them for twenty years. A goalkeeper needs one night like this in a career, and this was it.

Match

The cup run ends for Ryazan

1‑1 against Sokol, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.

Match

Nobody above Ryazan

First, on 22 points. The table is a fact and a fact is allowed to be enjoyed, which is as far as anybody at the club is prepared to go in public.

Squad

3 goals for Nikita Pogrebnev

The match ball belongs to Nikita Pogrebnev, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.

Squad

A day Vladislav Kostryukov will not forget

3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.

Player ratings

Age has not caught Jérémie Broh yet — 8.17

At 35 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.17 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Market

Angelo Schiavone puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Ryazan, and it is not being withdrawn.

Match

Whatever happens, Ryazan 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.

In brief

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The Ryazan Post

19 Jul 2032
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

The knee: Gennady Gusyev out for 20 days

20 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Ryazan lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Squad

A fracture rules Albert Naniev out for 74 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Ryazan will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Player ratings

Danil Kazantsev pops up at the right end — 7.96

7.96, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.

The dugout

Rashid Yevloev: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Ryazan have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Islamzhan Nasyrov is not the player he was

It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph a local paper has to write. 34 years old, 3 points down on where he was, and a body that has started charging interest on a career.

Boardroom

Graduation day at Ryazan

5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.

Match

6 unbeaten for Ryazan

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation Ryazan did not have in the autumn.

Transfer targets

KAMAZ tell Ryazan: Vitalijs Zjuzins 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.

Squad

Semyon Abramov 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 Ryazan this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief