The Kvant Post
Match2 Jan 2027
At last: Kvant win one
13 matches without a win, and then this, against Zenit Penza. Relief is a strange noise in a football ground and it was the only noise at the end.
Market4 Jan 2027
Artemy Ositsin 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 The request is on a desk at Kvant, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings4 Jan 2027
No sign of nerves from Emil Maiorov at 19 — 8.28
The hardest thing about being 19 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Emil Maiorov did not need any: 8.28, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
Daniil Lobanov keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Kvant may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
Artemy Ositsin frozen out at Kvant
This is not rotation. Artemy Ositsin has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Kvant is pretending otherwise.
Squad4 Jan 2027
The step up is real for Azamat Djumaev
At 19 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Words exchanged at Kvant
Nikita Baranov 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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Words at Kvant training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Anton Polorotov 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 terraces4 Jan 2027
The crowd has taken to Emil Maiorov
At 19 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.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Vitaliy Cherkasov joins the Kvant first team
- Market One of our own: Evgeny Korsakov joins the Kvant first team
- Market Rodion Burov steps up from the Kvant academy