Marked for Gabriel Ramírez
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad8 Mar 2038
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Kolos this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad8 Mar 2038
A place in the month's best eleven for Mykhailo Dziun
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Mykhailo Dziun has come out of that comparison in the side, and Kolos have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
Squad8 Mar 2038
Pavel Zemskov knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Kolos, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Steady
Squad19 Oct 2037
There were 13 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad19 Oct 2037
A fracture rules Vasyl Stepanenko out for 80 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Kolos will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad19 Oct 2037
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Kolos have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad19 Oct 2037
Tempers go at Kolos
Igor Bambecki was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Player ratings19 Oct 2037
Ninety minutes of Marian Leskovets at his very best
Marked 8.95. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Kolos.
Player ratings19 Oct 2037
Ninety minutes of Mykhailo Dziun at his very best
Marked 8.68. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Kolos.
Match17 Oct 2037
Honours even between Kolos and Kryvbas
2‑2, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Player ratings19 Oct 2037
11 attempts, none of them in. He got into the right places all afternoon, which is the hard part, and did the easy part badly — and that is the version of a bad day a manager can live with.
Player ratings19 Oct 2037
Successful dribbles: 11. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.