The Banik Ostrava Herald
Match9 Jan 2027
15 unbeaten for Banik Ostrava
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 15 matches without defeat is a foundation Banik Ostrava did not have in the autumn.
Squad11 Jan 2027
A fracture rules Wellington out for 98 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Banik Ostrava will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings11 Jan 2027
Nobody could get near Srđan Plavšić
Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Tempers go at Banik Ostrava
Michal Kohút 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.
Match9 Jan 2027
The run at home goes on for Banik Ostrava
10 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Words at Banik Ostrava training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Karel Pojezný 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.
Market11 Jan 2027
Eyes on Viktor Budinský again
The phone has started ringing about Viktor Budinský again, and this time the name on the line is Jablonec. Banik Ostrava are listening politely and promising nothing.
Player ratings11 Jan 2027
David Buchta in the eights
A performance of 8.14 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad11 Jan 2027
The team sheet said everything about Václav Jurečka
Warm-up bib, ninety minutes of watching, and a handshake at the end that fooled nobody. Big matches tell you who a manager trusts; this one told Václav Jurečka.
In brief
- Match Banik Ostrava share the spoils with Mlada Boleslav
- Market The shop window has Urtzi Iriondo in it
- Market Banik Ostrava borrow Jiří Panoš