The Dukla Prague Gazette
Squad24 Aug 2026
Jan Bačkovský is the hero from the spot
A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Jan Bačkovský: 3 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.
Match19 Aug 2026
Eric Hunal sends Dukla Prague through
Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Eric Hunal obliged against Bohemians 1905. 1‑1 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Dukla Prague.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Kévin-Prince Milla runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 28. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market24 Aug 2026
Pavel Gaszczyk hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Dukla Prague can pretend not to have heard.
Market24 Aug 2026
Vasas come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Dukla Prague did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Jakub Kadák in a row with a teammate
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.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
One of those days for Eric Hunal
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.48, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Dukla Prague lose David Tuček
29 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Jaroslav Svozil gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
In brief
- Player ratings Dominik Hašek misses from twelve yards
- Match Point won or two lost for Dukla Prague?
- Player ratings Marios Pourzitidis never got going