The Slask Herald
Match19 Dec 2026
Chastening afternoon for Slask
A 1‑5 beating by Odra Opole was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
Rio Ngumoha, 18, plays like he has been here for years — 7.92
A mark of 7.92 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 18-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Match19 Dec 2026
The wait goes on for Slask
4 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Simon Schierack is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Match19 Dec 2026
Nobody could stop scoring
6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Slask and Odra Opole in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Words at Slask training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Przemysław Banaszak 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.
Boardroom21 Dec 2026
Nobody left the Slask 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.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
Jakub Szymanski answers for it
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 1‑5, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
Squad21 Dec 2026
A falling-out at Slask
Szymon Rygiel and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
In brief
- Squad Beaten 5 times: a bad day for Michał Szromnik
- The dugout The manager has not finished forgetting Yegor Matsenko's mistake
- Player ratings Off the pace: Yegor Matsenko