Marked for Marko Roginić
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad16 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at MSK Zilina this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match14 Nov 2026
0‑1 to MFK Michalovce, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad16 Nov 2026
“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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Dani Homet asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
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Steady
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Kristian Mak: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” MSK Zilina have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Match17 Oct 2026
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 7 matches without defeat is a foundation MSK Zilina did not have in the autumn.
Squad19 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at MSK Zilina this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match17 Oct 2026
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Squad19 Oct 2026
The division's best last weekend was a MSK Zilina man
It is a small honour and it is not nothing: somebody watched every match in the division and decided that Michal Faško was the best thing in any of them.
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Uneasy
Match26 Sep 2026
No end in sight to MSK Zilina's wait for a win
7 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at MSK Zilina has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Miroslav Káčer 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
3 matches without a goal for MSK Zilina
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Dani Homet dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
Match26 Sep 2026
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. DAC Dunajska Streda will be the happier side with the point.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Dani Homet knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Dani Homet trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market28 Sep 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Jakub Badžgoň’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Squad28 Sep 2026
The plan did not have a place for Marko Roginić
Nobody at MSK Zilina is suggesting he is out of form. The manager simply wanted somebody with a different set of qualities for ninety specific minutes, and there is nothing a player can train to fix that.
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Uneasy
Match19 Sep 2026
6 matches without a win for MSK Zilina
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around MSK Zilina are no longer polite ones.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad21 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at MSK Zilina this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Sep 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
Match19 Sep 2026
Point won or two lost for MSK Zilina?
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Spartak Trnava? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
Squad21 Sep 2026
The shape wanted a different profile against this opponent, which is a real football answer and no comfort at all to the man it is about. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.