The Metta/LU Gazette
Squad12 Apr 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Kārlis Vilnis
63 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Metta/LU lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match7 Apr 2027
The small margins put Metta/LU out
Out, 0‑0 to Liepaja, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Reinis Reinholds is the hero from the spot
A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Reinis Reinholds: 1 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.
Player ratings12 Apr 2027
Up for the corner, and Pablo Ricardo delivers — 7.68
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Pablo Ricardo scored, was marked 7.68, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Player ratings12 Apr 2027
A chastening introduction for Jake Coomes — 5.78
It is a hard way to meet a crowd. Marked 5.78 on the day he was handed the shirt, and the important thing now is what the next one looks like.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Jakub Nečas 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 Metta/LU this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Words at Metta/LU training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Pablo Ricardo 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.
Match10 Apr 2027
A bad afternoon for Metta/LU against Ventspils
1‑2 to Ventspils, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Player ratings12 Apr 2027
Nobody could get near Robbe Quirynen
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
In brief
- Player ratings The kick that got away from Kaden Rodney
- The terraces The press cannot get enough of Reinis Reinholds