The Lokomotiv Moscow Sentinel
Squad11 Jan 2027
Majeed Waris damages knee ligaments — 32 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 32 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Player ratings11 Jan 2027
Nobody could get near Alexandr Rudenko
Successful dribbles: 37. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match6 Jan 2027
Lokomotiv Moscow bow out of the cup
Torpedo Moscow go through and Lokomotiv Moscow go home, 0‑1 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Majeed Waris: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Lokomotiv Moscow have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Tempers go at Lokomotiv Moscow
César Montes 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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Real improvement from Aikhan Bakhysh-Zade at Lokomotiv Moscow
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Aikhan Bakhysh-Zade is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Market11 Jan 2027
Claudiu Mihaila wants European nights
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Player ratings11 Jan 2027
A masterclass from Zelimkhan Bakaev
Marked 8.03 — 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.
Boardroom11 Jan 2027
Nobody left the Lokomotiv Moscow dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
In brief
- Loan watch Daniil Veselov has seen enough of Sokol
- Player ratings A costly moment from Alexandr Siljanov
- Match Zelimkhan Bakaev rescues a point for Lokomotiv Moscow