Enisey’s first ever season in the top flight was always going to be a challenge and despite having an experienced manager in Dmitri Alenichev and signing lots of players with top flight experience in the summer the issues were easy to see right from the off.
Inability to keep clean sheets, combined with passive forward actions (just 7 goals scored in the opening 14 rounds) quickly stranded Enisey at the foot of the table. Alenichev tried all sorts of formations and rotations to try and find a spark, but ultimately he failed.
The fact that the in-form early on Kostyukov, scored 3 of the first 4 goals for Enisey, got injured in September and never recovered properly after that also had major impact.
Changes of personnel took place in the winter, but none of the newly added players really impressed and Enisey continued to struggle in front of goal and at the back, which eventually doomed them to a direct relegation full month before the season was over.
Ogude was probably the most consistent player in the squad, with everyone else having good and bad days, with the bad ones much more.
It’s unlikely that coach Alenichev will stay in charge in the lower division and with many of the players also set to leave Enisey might not be able to return to the top flight again any time soon.
