Rafał Augustyniak

Central Defender - Legia
28 Aug 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Rafał Augustyniak

51 Edition

The Legia Herald

19 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

HNK Rijeka come back empty-handed

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

Squad

Tempers go at Legia

Ottó Hindrich 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.

Squad

Rafał Augustyniak has improved at 33, which nobody expected

Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.

In brief

Back issues
38 Edition

The Legia Herald

19 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Rafał Augustyniak damages knee ligaments — 22 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 22 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad

Adam Mesjasz breaks a bone — 68 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 68 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

Tempers go at Legia

Ottó Hindrich 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.

In brief

37 Edition

The Legia Herald

12 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Rafał Augustyniak

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

Squad

A fracture rules Adam Mesjasz out for 76 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Legia will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad

Home is on Luciano Cosentino's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Legia are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

In brief

36 Edition

The Legia Herald

5 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Rafał Augustyniak damages knee ligaments — 38 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 38 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad

Adam Mesjasz breaks a bone — 86 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 86 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

Jakub Żewłakow is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 20 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

In brief

35 Edition

The Legia Herald

29 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Rafał Augustyniak damages knee ligaments — 47 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 47 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad

A fracture rules Adam Mesjasz out for 94 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Legia will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad

Real improvement from Miłosz Kurzydłowski at Legia

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Miłosz Kurzydłowski is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

In brief

34 Edition

The Legia Herald

22 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Rafał Augustyniak damages knee ligaments — 56 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 56 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad

A fracture rules Adam Mesjasz out for 103 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Legia will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad

Samuel Šarudi: 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.” Legia have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

In brief

  • Squad Tempers go at Legia
33 Edition

The Legia Herald

15 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Rafał Augustyniak

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

Squad

A fracture rules Adam Mesjasz out for 112 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Legia will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad

Ottó Hindrich in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Legia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief

32 Edition

The Legia Herald

8 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Rafał Augustyniak damages knee ligaments — 72 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 72 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad

Adam Mesjasz breaks a bone — 122 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 122 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

Petar Stojanović says Legia went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

In brief

31 Edition

The Legia Herald

1 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Rafał Augustyniak

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

Squad

A fracture rules Adam Mesjasz out for 132 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Legia will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad

Eric Ramírez wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Legia know it.

Squad

Ottó Hindrich in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Legia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Loan watch

Dawid Nos counts the days

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

Loan watch

Antonio Čolak would rather not come back

“For the first time in years I am picked because somebody wants me in the team.” Karpaty suits him; the awkward conversation belongs to Legia, and the summer will force it.

In brief

30 Edition

The Legia Herald

22 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Rafał Augustyniak damages knee ligaments — 88 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 88 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Player ratings

Bartosz Kapustka runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 34. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

Legia out of the cup

Lechia ended it 1‑1. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Jakub Żewłakow at 20 — 8.07

The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Jakub Żewłakow did not need any: 8.07, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Squad

Tempers go at Legia

Ottó Hindrich 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.

Match

Still nobody has beaten Legia

The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Squad

No hiding place for Kamil Piątkowski

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

Match

No time for Lechia to settle

The goal that put Lechia ahead was still being replayed on the concourse when Legia equalised, 1 minutes later. Leads are only worth what you do with them.

Player ratings

The kick that got away from Vahan Bichakhchyan

Twelve yards, a goalkeeper guessing, and it still did not go in. He will take the next one, and every soul in the ground will hold their breath.

In brief

29 Edition

The Legia Herald

15 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Rafał Augustyniak damages knee ligaments — 97 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 97 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad

Ottó Hindrich in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Legia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Vahan Bichakhchyan signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Vahan Bichakhchyan commits to Legia for another 3 years.

In brief

28 Edition

The Legia Herald

8 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Rafał Augustyniak

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

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Jakub Żewłakow at 20 — 8.41

The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Jakub Żewłakow did not need any: 8.41, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Squad

Luciano Cosentino wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Legia know it.

Match

Legia keep winning on the road

4 away wins in a row. Travelling support is the truest kind, and this season it is being repaid in the only currency that counts.

Squad

Luciano Cosentino is carrying Legia

14 goals and a season average of 7.24. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

The terraces

Legia supporters have found a favourite in Jakub Żewłakow

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 20-year-old it feels ownership of. Jakub Żewłakow has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Match

Jakub Żewłakow the difference as Legia beat Gornik Zabrze

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Jakub Żewłakow. 2‑0 against Gornik Zabrze, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Luciano Cosentino

Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Words at Legia training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jakub Żewłakow 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

27 Edition

The Legia Herald

1 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Rafał Augustyniak

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

Market

Legia say no — this time

The offer from Omiya Ardija for Rafał Adamski was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad

Damian Szymański in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Legia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Defences have started doubling up on Luciano Cosentino

13 goals and a season average of 7.22 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.

Player ratings

One of those days for Vahan Bichakhchyan

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.44, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Player ratings

Luciano Cosentino in the eights

A performance of 8.24 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Squad

Samuel Šarudi signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Samuel Šarudi and Legia agree another 4 years.

Match

Luciano Cosentino rescues a point for Legia

It needed Luciano Cosentino to find the net to bring anything home at all: 2‑2 against Ruch, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

Player ratings

Arkadiusz Reca turns it into his own net

Nobody's fault and entirely his: a goal that goes into the book with his name against it and nothing about it intended. Legia deserved better, and so did he.

In brief

26 Edition

The Legia Herald

25 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Rafał Augustyniak

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

Market

Artur Jędrzejczyk 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 Legia, and it is not being withdrawn.

Player ratings

Jean-Pierre Nsame, 33, rolls back the years — 7.86

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.86 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Player ratings

Luciano Cosentino runs at them all day

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.

Match

Legia cannot stop winning

3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.

Squad

Tempers go at Legia

Ottó Hindrich 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.

Match

Legia are at home on the road

3 straight away victories. Sides that win away are usually sides that can defend and can counter, and the table has begun to reflect what those journeys have earned.

Match

Jean-Pierre Nsame the difference as Legia beat Gornik Leczna

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Jean-Pierre Nsame. 1‑0 against Gornik Leczna, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Squad

Jakub Gliwa out for 25 days

The medical room confirms 25 days on the sidelines for Jakub Gliwa, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

In brief

25 Edition

The Legia Herald

18 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Rafał Augustyniak damages knee ligaments — 127 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 127 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Match

Legia win it in stoppage time

The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 94th minute. Cracovia will replay every second of the added time for a week.

Squad

Claude Gonçalves says Legia went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad

A muscle injury sidelines Eric Ramírez for 15 days

Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Legia will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.

Squad

Ottó Hindrich in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Legia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Legia find a way past Cracovia

Cracovia made Legia work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings

Luciano Cosentino in the eights

A performance of 8.06 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Player ratings

Jakub Żewłakow turns it into his own net

Nobody's fault and entirely his: a goal that goes into the book with his name against it and nothing about it intended. Legia deserved better, and so did he.

Market

The Daniil Pylypchuk conversation is coming

Everyone has stopped pretending: Lechia will make the call about Daniil Pylypchuk this week. Legia have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.

In brief

24 Edition

The Legia Herald

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Rafał Augustyniak damages knee ligaments — 136 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 136 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Match

Jean-Pierre Nsame wins it after the whistle should have gone

91 minutes played. Jean-Pierre Nsame found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and Podbeskidzie went from a point to nothing inside one movement.

Squad

Aleksander Wyganowski is the real thing at 17

A season average of 6.49 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. Legia know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.

Player ratings

Both of them Jean-Pierre Nsame's — 8.60

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.60, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Luciano Cosentino

Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Tempers go at Legia

Ottó Hindrich 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.

Market

Cracovia join the queue for Aleksander Wyganowski

Add another name to the list: Cracovia have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Aleksander Wyganowski. The answer from Legia has not changed — yet.

Match

Legia see off Podbeskidzie

Three points for Legia, 2‑1 the final word against Podbeskidzie in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Squad

The team sheet said everything about Eric Ramírez

Warm-up bib, ninety minutes of watching, and a handshake at the end that fooled nobody. Big matches tell you who a manager trusts; this one told Eric Ramírez.

In brief

23 Edition

The Legia Herald

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Rafał Augustyniak

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

Squad

Artur Jędrzejczyk has been here 15 seasons

411 appearances across 15 seasons in one shirt. Nobody builds a career like that on purpose any more; it happens to a certain kind of footballer at a certain kind of club.

Squad

Ottó Hindrich keeps Legia in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Squad

The season belongs to Luciano Cosentino

An individual honour is a strange thing in a team game, and the best of them are never argued with. He has had the sort of year that ends with his name being read out, and Legia have had the benefit of it.

Market

Legia turn down Ruch for Mateusz Możdżeń

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Boardroom

Mieszko Lorenc has agreed to leave Legia for nothing

He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.

Player ratings

Jakub Żewłakow runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

Bartosz Kapustka’s goal not enough for Legia

Bartosz Kapustka scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Lechia, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Player ratings

One of those days for Bartosz Kapustka

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.23, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

In brief

22 Edition

The Legia Herald

28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Rafał Augustyniak

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

Player ratings

A brace, and Luciano Cosentino takes the afternoon — 8.32

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Luciano Cosentino provided it, and the 8.32 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Squad

Tempers go at Legia

Ottó Hindrich 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.

Squad

Words at Legia training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Eric Ramírez 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.

Match

Legia get the job done against Slask

A 2‑0 win over Slask, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Player ratings

Bartosz Kapustka runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

15 Edition

The Legia Herald

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Ottó Hindrich in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Legia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Legia find a way past Wisla Krakow

Wisla Krakow made Legia work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings

One of those days for Luciano Cosentino

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.14, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Player ratings

Nothing got past Arkadiusz Reca

18 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.

Squad

Legia keep their word to Luciano Cosentino

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.

Player ratings

Nothing got past Paweł Wszołek

15 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.

In brief

10 Edition

The Legia Herald

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Ottó Hindrich

There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Match

5 matches without a win for Legia

The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Legia are no longer polite ones.

Player ratings

Rafał Augustyniak pops up at the right end — 7.22

7.22, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.

Squad

Tempers go at Legia

Ottó Hindrich 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.

Match

Legia are shipping goals every week

Two or more conceded in each of the last 5 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.

Match

6 goals as Legia and Cracovia go for it

Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between Legia and Cracovia, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.

Match

Luciano Cosentino’s goal not enough for Legia

Luciano Cosentino scored, and precious little else went right: 2‑4 to Cracovia, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Squad

Words at Legia training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Eric Ramírez 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.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Eric Ramírez

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

In brief

5 Edition

The Legia Herald

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Bartosz Kapustka wins it after the whistle should have gone

90 minutes played. Bartosz Kapustka found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and Pogon went from a point to nothing inside one movement.

Market

Mateusz Możdżeń 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 Legia, and it is not being withdrawn.

Player ratings

A goal and an assist for Eric Ramírez — 7.78

Involvement in 2 goals, from a player who spent the ninety minutes doing the thing a manager actually wants: being where the ball was going to end up. 7.78 beside his name.

Squad

Ottó Hindrich in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Legia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Legia training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jean-Pierre Nsame 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.

Match

Legia see off Pogon

Three points for Legia, 2‑1 the final word against Pogon in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Player ratings

Bartosz Kapustka in the eights

A performance of 8.21 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Market

Kryvbas expected to open talks for Rafał Adamski

Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Legia will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.

Squad

No hiding place for Jakub Żewłakow

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

In brief

4 Edition

The Legia Herald

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Legia tear Zaglebie apart

Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 4‑1 against Zaglebie, and it could have been more.

Player ratings

Both of them Bartosz Kapustka's — 8.37

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.37, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

The terraces

Supporters turn on the $1.8M sale of Mileta Rajović

He is going to Cracovia, the club has $1.8M it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.

Player ratings

Jean-Pierre Nsame, 33, rolls back the years — 8.12

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.12 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Market

Adam Mesjasz 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 Legia, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

Mileta Rajović moves on

Cracovia pay $1.8M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

Squad

Tempers go at Legia

Ottó Hindrich 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.

Player ratings

Luciano Cosentino runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market

Kryvbas watching Rafał Adamski

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Legia have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

In brief