Marked for Dmitry Vorobjov
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Crisis
Squad9 Nov 2026
54 days out for Jhon Córdoba after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Krasnodar will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Tormena and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Words at Krasnodar training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Christian is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Match7 Nov 2026
Spartak Moscow left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad9 Nov 2026
200 games in the shirt. Nobody sets out to build a record like that; it happens to a certain kind of player at a certain kind of club, and this town knows what it has.
Match9 Nov 2026
The half-term report on Krasnodar
Position 7, 21 points, and every result so far reduced to one line. The second half of the season starts with the same squad and a different set of expectations.
Loan watch9 Nov 2026
11 appearances at Volos NPS and the goals keep coming. Krasnodar are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
Loan watch9 Nov 2026
11 appearances at Levadiakos and the goals keep coming. Krasnodar are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 1‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
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Steady
Squad5 Oct 2026
96 days out for Jhon Córdoba after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Krasnodar will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 36. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Match30 Sep 2026
Krasnodar bow out of the cup
Luki-Energiya go through and Krasnodar go home, 2‑4 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Match3 Oct 2026
Some goals win a match and some take one off somebody else. Dmitry Vorobjov scored in the 86th minute, Sochi had already begun thinking about the journey home, and Krasnodar took the lot.
Match5 Oct 2026
18 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Marked 7.98 at 18, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Squad5 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Krasnodar this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Roman Safronov is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Match30 Sep 2026
6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Krasnodar and Luki-Energiya in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
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Upbeat
Squad31 Aug 2026
139 days out for Jhon Córdoba after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Krasnodar will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
A brace, and Breel Embolo takes the afternoon — 7.74
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Breel Embolo provided it, and the 7.74 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Market31 Aug 2026
“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Krasnodar asked and Orenburg said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Akhmat Grozny wanted more than $2.9M and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Match29 Aug 2026
Breel Embolo scored, and precious little else went right: 3‑4 to CSKA Moscow, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Krasnodar
Eldar Guseinov and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Match29 Aug 2026
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 7 goals between Krasnodar and CSKA Moscow, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Douglas Augusto, and the manager let it.