The Pyunik Chronicle
Player ratings23 Apr 2029
Iman Griffith runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 35. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match23 Apr 2029
Pyunik are in among the leaders
Position 3 and 13 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Market23 Apr 2029
Tai Primc has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Pyunik they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Match21 Apr 2029
BKMA take the points off Pyunik
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout23 Apr 2029
The manager makes an example of Nathaniel Nwosu
“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.
Squad23 Apr 2029
A row about effort at Pyunik
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Witi was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad23 Apr 2029
João Teixeira 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 Pyunik this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom23 Apr 2029
Doors closed at Pyunik
The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.
Squad23 Apr 2029
Pyunik are still strangers to each other
7 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
In brief
- The dugout Henrikh Mkhitaryan: “No excuses”
- Market A long bet from Pyunik on Rick Stengs
- The dugout Hovhannes Harutyunyan has become a man the manager trusts