The Poltava Herald
Match26 Aug 2026
Maksym Marusych sends Poltava through
Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Maksym Marusych obliged against Obolon. 1‑0 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Poltava.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Denys Halenkov runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Poltava
Valerii Voskonyan 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Dmytro Plakhtyr falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Match29 Aug 2026
A bad afternoon for Poltava against Kolos
0‑1 to Kolos, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad31 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Kaj Ramsteijn
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Maksym Marusych stands above it all
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.60 on the card, and the Poltava support went home talking about one name.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Arsentiy Doroshenko 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.
Market31 Aug 2026
The Daniil Sukhoruchko question follows Poltava around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Daniil Sukhoruchko’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
In brief
- Player ratings The referee tires of Dmytro Plakhtyr
- The terraces The press cannot get enough of Maksym Marusych