The Lech Sentinel
Match17 Sep 2026
Mikael Ishak lights up a European night for Lech
1‑0 against Istra 1961, and a performance that will be described to people who were not there for the rest of the season. Mikael Ishak was at the centre of the description.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Age has not caught Mikael Ishak yet — 7.88
At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.88 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Lech
Mikael Ishak 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Real improvement from Plamen Andreev at Lech
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Plamen Andreev is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad21 Sep 2026
No hiding place for Mikael Ishak
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mikael Ishak, and the manager let it.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Ninety minutes of Terry Yegbe at his very best
Marked 8.54. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Lech.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Nobody could get near Luis Palma
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Kévin Malcuit left out for the big one
A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Kévin Malcuit will call it something else in private.
Match19 Sep 2026
Lech and Wisla Krakow take a point apiece
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
In brief
- Player ratings Filip Jagiełło was immovable
- Market Bartosz Tomaszewski leaves for nothing
- The terraces The press cannot get enough of Bartosz Mrozek