Marked for Dantaye Gilbert
From our football correspondent
Steady
Match18 Nov 2026
Slavia Prague ended it 1‑2. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Dantaye Gilbert, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.71
A mark of 7.71 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Jakub Kadák 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.
Match21 Nov 2026
Three points for Dukla Prague, 3‑2 the final word against Pribram in a contest settled by the finer margins.
The terraces23 Nov 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Dario Kreiker has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Match21 Nov 2026
Pribram blown away early
There is a particular helplessness in conceding 2 times before the twentieth minute. Pribram tried to reorganise, Dukla Prague did not allow it, and the result was written long before it was confirmed.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Michal Černák was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.43. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Words at Dukla Prague training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tidjane Traoré 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.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad2 Nov 2026
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Dukla Prague are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Squad2 Nov 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 Dukla Prague this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Rajmund Mikuš 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Tidjane Traoré
“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.
Match31 Oct 2026
A 2‑2 draw with Bohemians 1905 leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
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Uneasy
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 29. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Jakub Kadák 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Tomáš Pekhart, and the manager let it.
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Uneasy
Match12 Sep 2026
4 matches without a win for Dukla Prague
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Dukla Prague are no longer polite ones.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Dantaye Gilbert 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.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
A performance of 8.32 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Dukla Prague training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tidjane Traoré 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“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.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad14 Sep 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
Match12 Sep 2026
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
The substitution nobody applauded turned out to be the whole story. Dukla Prague were going nowhere until he came on.
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Crisis
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
A goal and an assist for Michal Černák — 7.99
Involvement in 2 goals, from a player who spent the ninety minutes doing the thing a manager actually wants: being where the ball was going to end up. 7.99 beside his name.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Jakub Kadák 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.
Match15 Aug 2026
2‑3 to Sparta Prague, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad17 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Marcel Čermák
“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.
Match15 Aug 2026
The goal that put Sparta Prague ahead was still being replayed on the concourse when Dukla Prague equalised, 4 minutes later. Leads are only worth what you do with them.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at Dukla Prague training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Seif Ali Hindi 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 12. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market17 Aug 2026
Dukla Prague have let the market know Chinonso Emeka can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.