Marked for Denis Halinský
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Uneasy
Squad26 Oct 2026
Jaroslav Harušťák 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Teplice this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Marked 7.40. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
Squad26 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Denis Halinský
“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.
Match24 Oct 2026
It needed Jan Fortelný to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Jablonec, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
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Crisis
Match26 Sep 2026
The wait goes on for Teplice
10 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 35. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match26 Sep 2026
5 matches without a goal for Teplice
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 5 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Matouš Trmal 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 Teplice this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Matěj Pulkrab 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Jaroslav Harušťák, and the manager let it.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Lukáš Mareček commits to Teplice for another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Matouš Trmal 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Teplice training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jaroslav Harušťák 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.
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 Teplice, another week without a signature from Lukáš Mareček.
Market3 Aug 2026
Still no offer on the table, and Daniel Mareček’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
Market3 Aug 2026
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Jakub Jakubko has his answer from Teplice; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Denis Halinský, and the manager let it.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
6.93, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Teplice had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.