From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Match5 Sep 2026
A derby is never about the football alone, but the football helped: 2‑0, and the away end emptied early. Bragging rights renewed for another season.
Market7 Sep 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Lech can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
There are goals, and then there are goals against that particular opponent. The Lech support have their bragging rights for a year and they know exactly whose name is on them.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Lech
Mikael Ishak 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 terraces7 Sep 2026
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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Lech training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Pablo Rodríguez 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
“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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The award is a small thing with a heavy meaning: for four weeks nobody in this division did his job better. Lech have the trophy on a shelf and the player in the side.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Match29 Aug 2026
No mercy from Lech
Ruch will want this one forgotten quickly: 3‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Lech were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Terry Yegbe takes the match ball home
3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.
Market31 Aug 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Lech can pretend not to have heard.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Lech
Allahyar Sayyadmanesh 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 ratings31 Aug 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 10.00, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Market31 Aug 2026
Business is business: Patryk Palat goes
Gornik Zabrze paid $640.0K and Lech took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Mikael Ishak 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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
9 attempts, none of them in. He got into the right places all afternoon, which is the hard part, and did the easy part badly — and that is the version of a bad day a manager can live with.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Marked 8.58. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Lech.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Match19 Aug 2026
Lech march on in the cup
Podbeskidzie are out and Lech go through, 3‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.73, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Market24 Aug 2026
“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 Lech, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market24 Aug 2026
The paperwork is done: Leandro Sanca joins from Piast in a deal worth $1.2M. Now comes the harder part.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Lech
Mikael Ishak 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A muscle injury sidelines Pablo Rodríguez for 14 days
Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Lech will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
A performance of 9.21 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad24 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Bartosz Mrozek, and the manager let it.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Ninety minutes of Pablo Rodríguez at his very best
Marked 8.74. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Lech.
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Upbeat
Market17 Aug 2026
The bid was some way short and Lech did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
A first appearance Kamil Jakóbczyk will want to forget — 5.74
Everybody's debut is one of two stories and this was the other one. 5.74, and the only consolation available is that nobody's career has ever been decided by ninety minutes in a shirt he had just been given.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Mikael Ishak 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 Lech this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market17 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: Ruch have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Kamil Jakóbczyk. The answer from Lech has not changed — yet.
Squad17 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Mikael Ishak
“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.
Match15 Aug 2026
A bad afternoon for Lech against Cracovia
0‑2 to Cracovia, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Pablo Rodríguez 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.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Shots: 6. Goals: none. The chances were there and they were good ones, and they went into the stand, the goalkeeper's arms and the side netting in roughly that order.
Squad17 Aug 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.
From our football correspondent
Triumph
Match8 Aug 2026
No mercy from Lech
Podbeskidzie will want this one forgotten quickly: 3‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Lech were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Mikael Ishak, 33, rolls back the years — 7.90
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.90 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Market10 Aug 2026
The name of Bartosz Mrozek has come up in conversations Lech were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Patrik Wålemark and Lech agree another 4 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Lech
Allahyar Sayyadmanesh 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Mikael Ishak 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.
Player ratings10 Aug 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.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Marked 8.96 — 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Patrik Wålemark, and the manager let it.
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Triumph
Squad3 Aug 2026
There were 7 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
The bid was some way short and Lech did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Mikael Ishak and Lech agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Lech
Mikael Ishak 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Lech training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Terry Yegbe 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.
Match1 Aug 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Luis Palma. 3‑1 against Lechia, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Marked 8.72 — 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.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
A performance of 8.70 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
A performance of 8.36 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.