The Spartak Kostroma Gazette
Match21 Nov 2029
Spartak Kostroma out of the cup
Rubin ended it 1‑3. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Match26 Nov 2029
Spartak Kostroma up to position 3
37 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Match24 Nov 2029
The wait goes on for Spartak Kostroma
4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad26 Nov 2029
Nikolay Tarasov 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 Spartak Kostroma this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings26 Nov 2029
A masterclass from Nikita Demchenko
Marked 8.97 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad26 Nov 2029
No hiding place for Maxim Ignatjev
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Maxim Ignatjev, and the manager let it.
Player ratings26 Nov 2029
One of those days for Marat Tlekhugov
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.52, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings26 Nov 2029
A masterclass from Nikolay Tarasov
Marked 8.40 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Player ratings26 Nov 2029
Maxim Chikanchi in the eights
A performance of 8.01 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
In brief
- Squad Nikolay Tarasov is in the form of his life
- Match Nikita Demchenko rescues a point for Spartak Kostroma
- Squad Nikita Demchenko finally opens his account