Aitor Arias

Goalkeeper - Vorskla
6 Sep 2026
Sunday
Process

Marked for Aitor Arias

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The Vorskla Post

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad

Zakhar Karpus damages knee ligaments — 99 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 99 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.

Squad

Aitor Arias keeps Vorskla in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 9 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Player ratings

Both of them Maksym Andrushchenko's — 8.16

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.16, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Match

Vorskla make it 3 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Vorskla have 3 straight wins of it.

Player ratings

Anton Baidal runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Tempers go at Vorskla

Dmytro Prikhna 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.

Match

Vorskla find a way past Podillia

Podillia made Vorskla work for it, but the scoreboard read 4‑3 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Match

Maksym Andrushchenko among the goals in a wild afternoon

7 goals in one match, Maksym Andrushchenko on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Vorskla and Podillia.

Market

Eyes on Matvii Burenko again

The phone has started ringing about Matvii Burenko again, and this time the name on the line is Veres. Vorskla are listening politely and promising nothing.

In brief

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The Vorskla Post

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Zakhar Karpus damages knee ligaments — 114 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 114 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.

Match

Cruel end for Ahrobiznes as Vorskla pounce

There is no crueller way to lose a football match. Vorskla scored in the 91th minute, the restart barely happened, and the away end was still standing when the whistle went.

Player ratings

Both of them Vladyslav Voitsekhovskyi's — 8.34

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.34, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Squad

Dmytro Prikhna 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 Vorskla this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Vorskla find a way past Ahrobiznes

Ahrobiznes made Vorskla work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑2 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad

Words at Vorskla training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Maksym Andrushchenko 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.

The terraces

Vorskla supporters have found a favourite in Zakhar Karpus

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Zakhar Karpus 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.

Squad

No hiding place for Aitor Arias

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Aitor Arias, and the manager let it.

Market

Nobody at Vorskla has picked up the phone to Taras Dmytruk

48 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.

In brief

1 Edition

The Vorskla Post

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Vladyslav Voitsekhovskyi runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 27. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Mykhailo Shershen signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Mykhailo Shershen commits to Vorskla for another 3 years.

Squad

Maksym Andrushchenko 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 Vorskla this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Vorskla training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dmytro Prikhna 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.

Market

Still no ink between Vorskla and Vladyslav Voitsekhovskyi

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Vorskla, another week without a signature from Vladyslav Voitsekhovskyi.

Player ratings

The afternoon belonged to Anton Baidal

7.87, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Vorskla had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.

Market

36 months and counting on Dmytro Prikhna

Still no offer on the table, and Dmytro Prikhna’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.

Match

Vorskla share the spoils with Metalurh Zaporizhzhia

A 1‑1 draw with Metalurh Zaporizhzhia leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

Squad

No hiding place for Matvii Burenko

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Matvii Burenko, and the manager let it.

In brief