The Aris Post
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Grigoris Kastanos runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Steeve Yago 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 Aris this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Abdoulaye Sow is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Aris training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ismael Páez 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
No hiding place for Alexandr Kokorin
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Alexandr Kokorin, and the manager let it.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Alexandr Kokorin leaves them behind him
Shots: 10. Goals: none. The chances were there and they were good ones, and they went into the stand, the goalkeeper's arms and the side netting in roughly that order.