The Sesvete Post
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Fran Topić scores twice — 8.95
Two goals and a mark of 8.95 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Match19 Sep 2026
5 matches without a win for Sesvete
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Sesvete are no longer polite ones.
Squad21 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Sesvete
Moses Zambrang Barnabas and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match19 Sep 2026
Fran Topić’s goal not enough for Sesvete
Fran Topić scored, and precious little else went right: 2‑3 to Zadar, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words at Sesvete training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marino Skelin 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.
The terraces21 Sep 2026
One of their own: Fran Topić
He is 22 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Tino Agić
“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.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 2‑3 defeat, delivered by Marin Barisic to a room that had heard them before.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Moses Zambrang Barnabas beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 15. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
In brief
- The dugout Noa Mikić has become a man the manager trusts
- The dugout The form table has caught Toni Gorupec
- Squad Daniel Adu-Adjei: “I am not a substitute”