The Slovacko Sentinel
Squad31 Aug 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Daniel Tetour
111 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Slovacko lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad31 Aug 2026
A fracture rules Jonathan Bryan out for 81 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Slovacko will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match29 Aug 2026
Adrián Fiala settles it late for Slovacko
The 89th minute, half the ground already edging towards the exits, and Adrián Fiala decided nobody was going anywhere. Viktoria Plzen had no time left to answer.
Market31 Aug 2026
Banik Ostrava come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Slovacko did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
A brace, and Adrián Fiala takes the afternoon — 8.06
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Adrián Fiala provided it, and the 8.06 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Slovacko
Marek Havlík 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Slovacko count the cost of losing Pavel Juroška
18 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Match29 Aug 2026
Adrián Fiala sends Slovacko past Viktoria Plzen
It finished 2‑1, and it was Adrián Fiala’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Slovacko.
The terraces31 Aug 2026
The crowd has taken to Adrián Fiala
At 21 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
In brief
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Pavel Juroška
- Player ratings Off the bench and decisive: Ousman Ceesay
- Boardroom Slovacko answer back