A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Olympiakos Nicosia will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Christos Wheeler 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.
A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Antoine Lejoly will call it something else in private.
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Charalambos Nicolaou after 1‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
In brief
Player ratingsRevaz Injgia beats them one at a time
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: APOEL keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Viktor Kovalenko 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.
Olympiakos Nicosia asked and PAEEK said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
200 games in the shirt. Nobody sets out to build a record like that; it happens to a certain kind of player at a certain kind of club, and this town knows what it has.
The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Olympiakos Nicosia are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 4 arrived, 1 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Viktor Kovalenko 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.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. APOEL have kept their man, and Olympiakos Nicosia go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $1.9M for Rody Junior Effaghe, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Hrvoje Miličević was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
2 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.
The offer from Omonoia for Viktor Kovalenko was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Olympiakos Nicosia, and it is not being withdrawn.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Aris have kept their man, and Olympiakos Nicosia go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The deal with AE Kition is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Viktor Kovalenko 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.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Stefan Đurić 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.
In brief
Player ratingsFrom twelve yards, and João Mário misses
The offer from Gareji Sagarejo for David Milićević was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
7.84, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.
Uroš Kilibarda 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.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Viktor Kovalenko 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.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Panionios have kept their man, and Olympiakos Nicosia go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: APOEL keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Renan Carlos is living that version at Olympiakos Nicosia, and it tends to show in the first month.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Olympiakos Nicosia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boards get told what they have done wrong for years and hear nothing on the days they get it right. This is one of those days: Valentinos Ioannou from APOEL for $110.0K, and a ticket office having a very good morning.
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Iasonas Pikis. 1‑0 against Ypsonas, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Successful dribbles: 18. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Christos Wheeler 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.
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Olympiakos Nicosia have done the hard part with Paralimni, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Successful dribbles: 19. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
“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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Stefan Đurić 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.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Viktor Kovalenko 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.
Jean Felipe 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.
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Level with 91 minutes on the clock, after an afternoon Olympiakos Nicosia had all but put away. Apollon will call it a point earned; the home dressing room will call it two given away, and both of them are right.
It needed Viktor Kovalenko to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Apollon, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Charalambos Nicolaou chose the glass-half-full version of 1‑1; the supporters left with the other one.
3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Christos Wheeler was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Charalambos Nicolaou kept it short after the 3‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Olympiakos Nicosia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Stefan Đurić 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.
Successful dribbles: 15. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 1‑0, Charalambos Nicolaou could afford to be generous.
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Olympiakos Nicosia, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
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.
“The easiest signature of my career.” Nikola Trujić and Olympiakos Nicosia agree another 1 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 1‑0, Charalambos Nicolaou could afford to be generous.
Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and João Mário obliged against ASIL Lysi. 3‑0 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Olympiakos Nicosia.
Successful dribbles: 32. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Match25 Nov 2026
João Mário wins it after the whistle should have gone
95 minutes played. João Mário found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and ASIL Lysi went from a point to nothing inside one movement.
1 for Orhan Džepar, marked 7.99, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.
Viktor Kovalenko 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.
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
“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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Stefan Denić 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.
In brief
Player ratingsNinety minutes of Uroš Kilibarda at his very best
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Olympiakos Nicosia know it.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Stefan Đurić 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 dugout23 Nov 2026
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑2 defeat, delivered by Charalambos Nicolaou to a room that had heard them before.
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.
Uroš Kilibarda 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.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Viktor Kovalenko 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.
AEL next, and one man in the Olympiakos Nicosia dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Antoine Lejoly signs something — a contract at Olympiakos Nicosia or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
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.
Jean Felipe 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.
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑3 defeat, delivered by Charalambos Nicolaou to a room that had heard them before.
Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Nikola Trujić is on it.
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Olympiakos Nicosia have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Viktor Kovalenko 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.
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Stefan Đurić 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.
Marked 7.79. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
The view from the dugout
“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Charalambos Nicolaou, on a 1‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.
0‑3 to AE Kition, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
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.
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.
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Aris in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
In brief
Player ratingsStefan Đurić beats them one at a time
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Olympiakos Nicosia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Stefan Denić 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 team at the top of the table next, and the honest measure of where this side actually is. Anybody can beat the club below them; the question is what happens against AE Kition.
AE Kition next, and one man in the Olympiakos Nicosia dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Olympiakos Nicosia have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Viktor Kovalenko 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.
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Marios Kastanos has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Constantinos Charalambous has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Everybody at Olympiakos Nicosia saw it before anybody said it, which is how this always goes. At 34 the decline is real and measurable — 3 points — and the only question left is how the club handles somebody it owes a great deal to.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Stefan Đurić 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.
12 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
Omonoia next, and one man in the Olympiakos Nicosia dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Vladimir Bradonjić is on it.
In brief
The dugoutThe manager makes Stefan Đurić a promise
Successful dribbles: 27. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Olympiakos Nicosia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Viktor Kovalenko was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
“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.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑1 Charalambos Nicolaou left the room before anybody could ask which.
There is no crueller way to lose a football match. Olympiakos Nicosia scored in the 96th minute, the restart barely happened, and the away end was still standing when the whistle went.
Two goals and a mark of 8.10 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Successful dribbles: 20. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Uroš Kilibarda. 2‑0 against Ypsonas, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Olympiakos Nicosia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Stefan Đurić was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Marked 7.93 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Olympiakos Nicosia had the best player on the pitch.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Charalambos Nicolaou kept it short after the 1‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Nikola Trujić’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Olympiakos Nicosia needing him to play as if none of it matters.
The shape wanted a different profile against this opponent, which is a real football answer and no comfort at all to the man it is about. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Olympiakos Nicosia can pretend not to have heard.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Viktor Kovalenko was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Olympiakos Nicosia ran out of time with Paralimni. The paperwork was open when the deadline passed, and a transfer that was almost done is now a transfer that never happened.
12 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
A defender's mistake gets tidied up by somebody else; a goalkeeper's ends up in the net. He knew before the ball crossed the line, and so did everybody in the ground.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Charalambos Nicolaou to a room that had heard them before.
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 18 arrived, 1 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Everything agreed with Paralimni, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $35.0K — a club that wants Ahmed Khaled enough to be asked twice.
Viktor Kovalenko 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.
Olympiakos Nicosia asked and Aguilas Doradas said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Stefan Denić 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.
He used to be one of the options. He is now one of the men the options are picked around, and the change happened quietly enough that only the dressing room noticed on the day.
“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. David Milićević had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Olympiakos Nicosia can pretend not to have heard.
Nikola Trujić was the name on every phone-in, and the club has gone and signed him for $210.0K. For one week the board can do no wrong, which is a week most boards never get.
Olympiakos Nicosia asked and Panathinaikos said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Stefan Đurić 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.
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Stefan Denić has, at Olympiakos Nicosia, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
$210.0K settles it between the clubs for Nikola Trujić
Ypsonas have accepted the money. What Olympiakos Nicosia do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.
Uroš Kilibarda 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.
Olympiakos Nicosia asked and Ypsonas said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Viktor Kovalenko was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Olympiakos Nicosia will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Olympiakos Nicosia, another week without a signature from Stefan Denić.
Olympiakos Nicosia asked and Petrolul Ploiești said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Viktor Kovalenko 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.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Christos Wheeler 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.
10 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Olympiakos Nicosia are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
Panathinaikos have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Olympiakos Nicosia has been clear about where Markos Charalabous stands, which is more than many ever get.
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Antoine Lejoly has, at Olympiakos Nicosia, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Olympiakos Nicosia asked and Aris said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Jason Makris has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Michalis Ioannou has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Grigoris Laifis has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Antonis Papoulis has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Stefan Đurić was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Olympiakos Nicosia will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
In brief
Transfer targetsA loan move for Giorgos Katris is in the works
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. David Milićević is living that version at Olympiakos Nicosia, and it tends to show in the first month.
“The easiest signature of my career.” Viktor Kovalenko and Olympiakos Nicosia agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Viktor Kovalenko was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. NK Celje have kept their man, and Olympiakos Nicosia go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Jean Felipe 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.