The Luki-Energiya Courier
The terraces18 Sep 2028
The mood at Luki-Energiya has turned into something else
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
Squad18 Sep 2028
A fracture rules Gennady Nikitin out for 19 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Luki-Energiya will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market18 Sep 2028
Kirill Puzyrev hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Luki-Energiya can pretend not to have heard.
Squad18 Sep 2028
Vsevolod Yeliseev 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 Luki-Energiya this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad18 Sep 2028
Ilja Salnikov falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
The terraces18 Sep 2028
Luki-Energiya supporters have found a favourite in Igor Shestakov
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Igor Shestakov has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Match16 Sep 2028
Vadim Timofeyev the difference as Luki-Energiya beat Kolomna
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Vadim Timofeyev. 2‑0 against Kolomna, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad18 Sep 2028
The manager makes an example of Alexey Pipo
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Player ratings18 Sep 2028
Yuri Ermakov runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
In brief
- Player ratings Igor Shestakov stands above it all
- Player ratings Off the bench and decisive: Vadim Timofeyev
- Market Igor Shestakov linked with a move away