The Sporting Baku Sentinel
Match28 Sep 2026
Sporting Baku up to position 3
11 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
A defender's goal wins it for Sporting Baku — 7.98
1 for Nəbi Məmmədov, marked 7.98, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
A hand in 2 of them from Edílson — 7.92
Marked 7.92. There is a kind of forward whose value only shows up when you count what he was involved in rather than what he finished, and this is the day that argument makes itself.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Sporting Baku
Hüseyn Əliyev 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.
Match26 Sep 2026
Zé Artur sends Sporting Baku past Shimal
It finished 3‑1, and it was Zé Artur’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Sporting Baku.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words at Sporting Baku training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jan Čtvrtečka 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 dugout28 Sep 2026
No hiding place for Ürfan Ismayilov
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ürfan Ismayilov, and the manager let it.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Eddy Huseynov out for 20 days
The medical room confirms 20 days on the sidelines for Eddy Huseynov, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
A satisfied Araz Khalilzade
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 3‑1, Araz Khalilzade could afford to be generous.
In brief
- Market The Zé Artur talk will not go away
- The dugout Cavad Qurbanlı does not fit this one
- The dugout A door opens for Elşad Tağıyev