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Uneasy
Player ratings8 Nov 2027
Successful dribbles: 33. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market8 Nov 2027
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at FK Senica, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad8 Nov 2027
Milan Bero 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 FK Senica this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces8 Nov 2027
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 19-year-old it feels ownership of. Matej Grahovac 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.
Squad8 Nov 2027
Words at FK Senica training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Vladimir Gyomber 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.
Loan watch8 Nov 2027
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at FK Senica, and 1 appearances in 17 say he has earned the hearing.
Squad8 Nov 2027
Matej Grahovac named in the team of the month
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Matej Grahovac is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
Squad8 Nov 2027
Matej Hamsik has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at FK Senica will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Match6 Nov 2027
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Podbrezova defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
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Steady
Squad30 Aug 2027
There were 8 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Market30 Aug 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what FK Senica can pretend not to have heard.
Match28 Aug 2027
4 matches without a win for FK Senica
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around FK Senica are no longer polite ones.
Player ratings30 Aug 2027
Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Milan Bero 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 FK Senica this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match28 Aug 2027
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between FK Senica and AS Trencin, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
The terraces30 Aug 2027
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Lukáš Prokop 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.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Words at FK Senica training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tomás Aristizábal 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.
Player ratings30 Aug 2027
A performance of 8.04 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
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Uneasy
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 32. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market14 Dec 2026
Juraj Valjent 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 FK Senica can pretend not to have heard.
Match12 Dec 2026
FK Senica cannot find the net
3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Words at FK Senica training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bamba Diarrassouba 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.
Loan watch14 Dec 2026
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at FK Senica, and 0 appearances in 18 say he has earned the hearing.
Squad14 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Karol Suslov, and the manager let it.
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Crisis
Squad16 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Stefan Sestak
14 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. FK Senica lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 12 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match14 Nov 2026
0‑3 to Slovan Bratislava, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Market16 Nov 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at FK Senica, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Matej Hamsik 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 FK Senica this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Words at FK Senica training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Vladimir Gyomber 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.
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Crisis
Squad5 Oct 2026
Stefan Sestak damages knee ligaments — 59 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 59 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match3 Oct 2026
Beaten 0‑3 by Spartak Trnava, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Matej Hamsik 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 FK Senica this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings5 Oct 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at FK Senica training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Vladimir Gyomber 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Miroslav Strelec and FK Senica agree another 1 years.
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Crisis
Squad28 Sep 2026
Stefan Sestak damages knee ligaments — 68 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 68 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Milan Bero runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 26. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Jakub Jokl is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 20 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Matej Hamsik 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
0‑2 to MFK Ruzomberok, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Bamba Diarrassouba 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.