The Rodina Sentinel
Match22 Aug 2026
No mercy from Rodina
Sokol will want this one forgotten quickly: 3‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Rodina were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Rodina
Mikhail Maltsev 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
Ilja Svinov moves on
Akhmat Grozny pay $340.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Brian Mansilla runs at them all day
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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Rodina training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Artem Sokol 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.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Iker Pozo in the eights
A performance of 8.02 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad24 Aug 2026
100 appearances for Stanislav Bessmertny
100 games in these colours. Service of that kind gets rarer every season, and the crowd knows it.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
No hiding place for Soltmurad Bakaev
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Soltmurad Bakaev, and the manager let it.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Rodina lose Lev Tolstoy
52 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
In brief
- The dugout The manager has not finished forgetting Sergey Volkov's mistake
- The dugout A satisfied Danil Yershov
- The dugout Dmitry Markitesov left out for tactical reasons at Rodina