Benjamin Mendy

Left Back - Pogon
2 Jan 2027
Saturday
Process

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From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Nowhere to hide for Pogon

0‑3 against GKS Katowice, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.

The dugout

No hiding place for Linus Wahlqvist

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Linus Wahlqvist, and the manager let it.

Looking ahead

The big one: Legia come into view

Two sides from the top of the table, one afternoon, and a month of talk decided in ninety minutes. Pogon will not use the word title this week and will not stop thinking it.

Boardroom

Nobody left the Pogon dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

Loan watch

Tristan Andrew counts the days

“I watch every Pogon game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Gornik Zabrze runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.

The dugout

Filip Zielinski faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Filip Zielinski after 0‑3, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

Squad

Benjamin Mendy makes the team of the month

Four or five weekends of consistency, measured against everybody else in the division. A quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.

Looking ahead

Kamil Grosicki faces his old club

Legia next, and one man in the Pogon dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.

The dugout

No place in the plan for Patryk Dziczek

The manager wanted a different profile for this opponent, which is a real football reason and no consolation. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.

In brief

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From our football correspondent Triumph

Market

Arka Gdynia come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Pogon did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Player ratings

Vintage Kamil Grosicki — 8.36

At 38 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.36, and nobody on the pitch better.

Market

Dimitris Keramitsis 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 Pogon can pretend not to have heard.

Match

Pogon make it 4 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Pogon have 4 straight wins of it.

Transfer targets

Pogon rebuffed over Jonatan Braut Brunes

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Raków Częstochowa have kept their man, and Pogon go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Match

Jean-Pierre Nsame the difference as Pogon beat Lech

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Jean-Pierre Nsame. 2‑1 against Lech, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Squad

Lukas Willen reaches 100 appearances

100 games in the shirt. Nobody sets out to build a record like that; it happens to a certain kind of player at a certain kind of club, and this town knows what it has.

The dugout

No hiding place for Rajmund Molnár

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Rajmund Molnár, and the manager let it.

Player ratings

Benjamin Mendy's mistake decides it

Ten men and a goalkeeper behind him, and it still finished in the net. He knew before anybody told him, and nobody at Pogon needed to.

In brief