The Cibalia Chronicle
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
A defender's afternoon for Petar Brlek
Defensive actions: 23. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Cibalia
Agustín Allione 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.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Ignacio Irañeta runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Mehmet Feyzi Yıldırım signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Mehmet Feyzi Yıldırım commits to Cibalia for another 3 years.
Squad17 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Marko Pervan
“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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
This league is too small for Agustín Allione
He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. Cibalia will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Gabrijel Boban takes the honours
Marked 7.56 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Cibalia had the best player on the pitch.
Market17 Aug 2026
No place for Petar Mišić in the plan
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Petar Mišić has his answer from Cibalia; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
The one thing Ante Kuliš could not do
Shots: 10, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.
In brief
- Market Cibalia bring in an old head
- Market Ignacio Irañeta brings the grey hairs Cibalia lacked
- Match No goals between Cibalia and Rudes