The Smorgon Herald
Squad29 May 2028
36 days out for Danila Glushakov after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Smorgon will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Match29 May 2028
Smorgon are top
22 points and nobody above them. The word is not being said around the ground yet, and it is being thought in every seat.
Player ratings29 May 2028
Both of them Nikita Krasnov's — 8.39
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.39, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad29 May 2028
A falling-out at Smorgon
Dmitriy Latykhov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match27 May 2028
Whatever happens, Smorgon do not lose
6 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Match27 May 2028
Nikita Krasnov the difference as Smorgon beat Lida
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Nikita Krasnov. 2‑1 against Lida, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad29 May 2028
Christian Intsoen 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 dugout29 May 2028
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Mikita Skavysh kept it short after the 2‑1 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
The dugout29 May 2028
Artem Stankevich gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Artem Stankevich is on it.
In brief
- Squad The weekend belonged to Nikita Krasnov
- Player ratings Dmitriy Latykhov could have had three
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Dmitriy Simankov