Marked for Hassan Muhammad
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Crisis
Squad12 Oct 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Lucko may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad12 Oct 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; Lucko are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Lucko
Ivan Cvijanović 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.
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Upbeat
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.27, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words at Lucko training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alfredo Troncoso 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Lucko
Kristijan Blaževski 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.
Match26 Sep 2026
Imotski made Lucko work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad28 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 ratings28 Sep 2026
A defender's afternoon for Frane Runjić
Defensive actions: 16. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad28 Sep 2026
A Lucko teenager takes the young player award
Hassan Muhammad is 20, and for one weekend he was the best of everybody his age in the division. Nobody should build a career on it and everybody quietly does.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
11 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.
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Steady
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
No sign of nerves from Hassan Muhammad at 20 — 8.22
The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Hassan Muhammad did not need any: 8.22, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad21 Sep 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 Lucko this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Aarón Martínez 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.
Match19 Sep 2026
Rudes made Lucko work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
The terraces21 Sep 2026
At 20 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Squad21 Sep 2026
“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.