Marked for Igor Drapiński
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad28 Sep 2026
18 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Piast lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.24 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Jorge Félix 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 Piast this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Piotr Liszewski is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Dominik Holec
“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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Piast
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Leandro Sanca was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match26 Sep 2026
A 2‑2 draw with Widzew Łódź leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Kamil Frankowski chose the glass-half-full version of 2‑2; the supporters left with the other one.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Hugo Vallejo beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 13. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
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Uneasy
Squad21 Sep 2026
25 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Piast lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad21 Sep 2026
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad21 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Piast
Jorge Félix and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Juande Rivas
“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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Piast
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Lamine Diaby Fadiga was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Marked 7.75 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Piast had the best player on the pitch.
Match19 Sep 2026
Piast share the spoils with Korona
A 1‑1 draw with Korona leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Kamil Frankowski chose the glass-half-full version of 1‑1; the supporters left with the other one.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Jason Lokilo beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 13. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
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 Piast can pretend not to have heard.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
The deal with Raków Częstochowa is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Legia have kept their man, and Piast go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Piast have gone to Wieczysta Kraków with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Sint-Truiden keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Match22 Aug 2026
No end in sight to Piast's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Piast has to find a result from somewhere.
Market24 Aug 2026
Wisła Płock pay $480.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Piast training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Leandro Sanca 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.
In brief
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Squad
Tempers go at Piast
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Player ratings
Hugo Vallejo was unplayable
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The dugout
The view from the dugout