Samed Baždar wins it after the whistle should have gone
93 minutes played. Samed Baždar found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and Gornik Leczna went from a point to nothing inside one movement.
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Guilherme Montóia scored, was marked 7.53, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Bernardo Vital 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.
At 23 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.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Samed Baždar was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.00. 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.
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Jagiellonia, and 0 appearances in 13 say he has earned the hearing.
In brief
SquadKajetan Szmyt falls out with a teammate over standards
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Jagiellonia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Afimico Pululu. 1‑0 against Cracovia, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
7.56, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Jagiellonia had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
Squad2 Nov 2026
A place in the month's best eleven for Andy Pelmard
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Andy Pelmard has come out of that comparison in the side, and Jagiellonia have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
Bernardo Vital 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words at Jagiellonia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sergio Lozano 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.
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Sławomir Abramowicz is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Jagiellonia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Filip Čuić 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.
Marked 8.00 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Youssuf Sylla, and the manager let it.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words at Jagiellonia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kajetan Szmyt 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.
Bernardo Vital 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.
“The easiest signature of my career.” Norbert Wojtuszek and Jagiellonia agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Jagiellonia can tell you which week it ends in.
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Samed Baždar 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.
“I watch every Jagiellonia 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 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.
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Slask defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Jagiellonia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Sergio Lozano 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.
Bernardo Vital 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.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Jagiellonia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Jesús Imaz. 1‑0 against Zaglebie, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Bernardo Vital 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.
It finished 1‑0, and it was Jesús Imaz’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Jagiellonia.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Jagiellonia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sergio Lozano 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.
The offer from Paralimni for Dawid Drachal 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.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Jagiellonia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Add another name to the list: Gornik Leczna have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Paweł Czułowski. The answer from Jagiellonia has not changed — yet.
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Samed Baždar is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
The offer from Lech for Kamil Jóźwiak 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.
Afimico Pululu 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.
1 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Jagiellonia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The phone has started ringing about Dawid Drachal again, and this time the name on the line is Paralimni. Jagiellonia are listening politely and promising nothing.
At 22 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Sergio Lozano 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.
There comes a point where a club either backs its own ambition or admits it does not have any. Jagiellonia have paid $2.5M for Filip Čuić, which is the loudest way there is of saying which one it chose.
The offer from Piast for Dimitris Rallis 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.
Afimico Pululu 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.
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Sławomir Abramowicz and Jagiellonia agree another 4 years.
Afimico Pululu 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.
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Sławomir Abramowicz trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Legia defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Afimico Pululu and Jagiellonia agree another 4 years.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Jagiellonia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
At 22 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.
It finished 2‑0, and it was Samed Baždar’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Jagiellonia.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Sergio Lozano 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.
The name of Maciej Kolasa has come up in conversations Jagiellonia were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.