From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad28 Sep 2026
Bruno Pinto 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.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad28 Sep 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Defensive actions: 16. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Defensive actions: 16, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
A mark of 7.63, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
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Steady
Squad21 Sep 2026
Stênio 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Matvii Burenko
“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 ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match19 Sep 2026
It needed Ivan Potskhveriia to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Livyi Bereh, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Lucas Villagra knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Vorskla, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad21 Sep 2026
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Vorskla have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
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Steady
Squad14 Sep 2026
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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
14 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Stênio 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
15 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Match12 Sep 2026
A 2‑1 win over Feniks, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Marked 8.86 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
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Uneasy
Market7 Sep 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Stênio 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.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Wages eat 373% of everything Vorskla earn
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.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Marked 8.64 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad7 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Taras Dmytruk, and the manager let it.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
A performance of 8.11 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match5 Sep 2026
2‑2, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Dmytro Prikhna asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
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Crisis
Match29 Aug 2026
Vorskla out of the cup
Prykarpattia ended it 0‑1. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 29. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The terraces31 Aug 2026
The ground has had enough
“We travel everywhere and we get this.” 8 of the 25 senior players heard it walking off, and the ones who did not hear it were not playing.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Bruno Pinto 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Vladyslav Voitsekhovskyi, and the manager let it.
Market31 Aug 2026
The name of Matvii Burenko has come up in conversations Vorskla were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Boardroom31 Aug 2026
The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.
Squad31 Aug 2026
At 19 years old, Yaroslav Karpizin became the latest name off the academy production line to be handed a senior shirt.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Marked 5.44, and generously at that. Nothing came off, and by the end the crowd had stopped expecting it to.
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Upbeat
Market24 Aug 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Vorskla can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Bruno Pinto 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.
Match22 Aug 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Vladyslav Voitsekhovskyi. 2‑1 against Podillia, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad24 Aug 2026
The medical room confirms 26 days on the sidelines for Danyil Hrechko, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.07, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad24 Aug 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad24 Aug 2026
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Vorskla have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
Market24 Aug 2026
Vorskla have made Vladyslav Semotiuk available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
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Steady
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Bruno Pinto 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Bruno Pinto gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Marked 7.67 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Vorskla had the best player on the pitch.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 15 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
A defender's afternoon for Vadym Chervak
Defensive actions: 14. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
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Steady
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Bruno Pinto 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.
Match8 Aug 2026
Ahrobiznes left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Vadym Chervak, and the manager let it.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Bruno Pinto has outgrown this division
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Vorskla know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
Nobody left the Vorskla dressing room in a hurry
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.
Market10 Aug 2026
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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Bruno Pinto knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Shots: 8, not one of them in. A centre forward is paid for one thing, and on this evidence he has forgotten which thing it is.
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Triumph
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Defensive actions: 25. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Mykhailo Shershen commits to Vorskla for another 3 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
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.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 20 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
A performance of 8.51 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market3 Aug 2026
“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.
Market3 Aug 2026
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.