Marked for Tomáš Vaclík
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Triumph
Match29 Aug 2026
7 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Umut Dilek takes the match ball home
3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.
Market31 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Tomáš Vaclík 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 Dinamo Tbilisi this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match29 Aug 2026
Sioni made Dinamo Tbilisi work for it, but the scoreboard read 4‑3 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Match29 Aug 2026
7 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Dinamo Tbilisi and Sioni in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Ninety minutes of Umut Dilek at his very best
Marked 9.62. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Dinamo Tbilisi.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The terraces31 Aug 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Algassime Bah 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.
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Triumph
Match22 Aug 2026
A 3‑2 win over Samtredia, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Match19 Aug 2026
Samtredia are out and Dinamo Tbilisi go through, 2‑1 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Match22 Aug 2026
6 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Market24 Aug 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Tomáš Vaclík 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Tomáš Vaclík, and the manager let it.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Marked 8.34 — 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
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Triumph
Match15 Aug 2026
A 3‑1 win over Sapovnela, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Match12 Aug 2026
A 4‑0 win over Sapovnela, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A one-man rearguard from Tomáš Vaclík
There were 8 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.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Both of them Umut Dilek's — 8.33
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.33, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.28 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
At 34 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.40 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Match15 Aug 2026
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Dinamo Tbilisi have 4 straight wins of it.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tomáš Vaclík 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 Dinamo Tbilisi this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
At 23 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.
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Triumph
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Mathew Gbomadu commits to Dinamo Tbilisi for another 4 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tomáš Vaclík 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 Dinamo Tbilisi this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match8 Aug 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Giorgi Zaria. 2‑1 against Torpedo Kutaisi, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Match8 Aug 2026
There is a particular helplessness in conceding 2 times before the twentieth minute. Torpedo Kutaisi tried to reorganise, Dinamo Tbilisi did not allow it, and the result was written long before it was confirmed.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Algassime Bah was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.44. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Squad10 Aug 2026
This league is too small for Tomáš Vaclík
He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. Dinamo Tbilisi will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
Market10 Aug 2026
The clock runs on Giorgi Zaria's contract
48 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.
Market10 Aug 2026
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Dinamo Tbilisi will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Giorgi Loria dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.