Opening
In mid-June set-piece coach Artem Buloychik quietly returned to Baltika after a spell away. Below I explain why this may be one of the most important transfers of the summer.
Baltika have a problem that no single glamorous signing can solve. Talalaev's team knows how to suffer, fight, kill the tempo and drag a match into its own working zone. But in matches like that the decisive moment is rarely a 14-pass attack; it is one corner, one throw-in, one second ball. Not positional beauty, but the ability not to waste the episode that is already lying almost at your feet.
