David Pekarik

Left Midfielder - MFK Michalovce
7 Jan 2038
Thursday
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Marked for David Pekarik

578 Edition

The MFK Michalovce Gazette

24 Aug 2037
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

MFK Michalovce out of the cup

FK Senica ended it 2‑2. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.

Player ratings

Both of them Daniil Kulikov's — 8.39

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.39, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Squad

Matej Mazuch is the hero from the spot

A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Matej Mazuch: 1 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.

Player ratings

David Pekarik could not have asked for more on his first appearance — 7.24

Debuts are survived rather than enjoyed. This one was enjoyed: 7.24, 0 goals, and a manager already being asked whether he starts again next week.

Player ratings

Kido Taylor-Hart, 34, rolls back the years — 8.83

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.83 at 34, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Market

William Bergman has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around MFK Michalovce they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Match

A bad afternoon for MFK Michalovce against Spartak Trnava

2‑3 to Spartak Trnava, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Cheick Kone

Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market

The Ondrej Hrosovsky conversation is coming

Everyone has stopped pretending: MFK Ruzomberok will make the call about Ondrej Hrosovsky this week. MFK Michalovce have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.

In brief

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529 Edition

The MFK Michalovce Gazette

15 Sep 2036
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Adam Strelec

15 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. MFK Michalovce lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad

Denis Hamsik breaks a bone — 40 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 40 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

Omar Barry asks to leave MFK Michalovce

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Player ratings

Tomasz Walczak was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.54. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Squad

Lautaro Bianco is carrying MFK Michalovce

8 goals and a season average of 7.33. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Squad

Franck Bahi 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.

Player ratings

One of those days for Lautaro Bianco

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.21, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Match

MFK Michalovce share the spoils with FK Senica

A 2‑2 draw with FK Senica leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

Player ratings

Tómas Orri Róbertsson runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 12. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief