The Ústí nad Labem Sentinel
Squad27 Aug 2029
A knee injury of the worst kind for Jiri Stanek
20 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Ústí nad Labem lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match22 Aug 2029
Jake Tabor sends Ústí nad Labem through
Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Jake Tabor obliged against Artis Brno. 2‑1 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Ústí nad Labem.
Squad27 Aug 2029
9 saves: Tomáš Vaclík was the team
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 9 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Player ratings27 Aug 2029
No sign of nerves from António Gil at 21 — 7.65
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. António Gil did not need any: 7.65, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Market27 Aug 2029
Ondřej Prodělal puts it in writing
“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 The request is on a desk at Ústí nad Labem, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market27 Aug 2029
Bohemians 1905 come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Ústí nad Labem did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Player ratings27 Aug 2029
Nobody could get near Abdullahi Ibrahim Bewene
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Boardroom27 Aug 2029
Ústí nad Labem counting the cost
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Ústí nad Labem now.
Squad27 Aug 2029
Words at Ústí nad Labem training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tomáš Vaclík 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.
In brief
- Squad Roberto Gagliardini in a row with a teammate
- Transfer targets Door shut on Justin Araujo Wilson
- The terraces The crowd has taken to António Gil