A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Daugavpils will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Daugavpils this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Skonto go through and Daugavpils go home, 1‑5 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
7 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
Daugavpils are taken apart by Skonto — and the town wants answers
It finished 1-5. A cup exit is a disappointment; this was a public dismantling, and the difference between the two is the number of people who will still be talking about it in August.
6 goals in one match, Maksims Bērziņš on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Daugavpils and Skonto.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Daugavpils training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ceti Junior Tchibinda 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.
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Daugavpils know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Daniel Kivinda obliged against Ventspils. 3‑2 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Daugavpils.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Maksims Bērziņš could not have asked for more on his first appearance — 7.34
Debuts are survived rather than enjoyed. This one was enjoyed: 7.34, 1 goals, and a manager already being asked whether he starts again next week.
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Wasiu Falolu has, at Daugavpils, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Ziad Ouled-Haj-M'hand and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Boards get told what they have done wrong for years and hear nothing on the days they get it right. This is one of those days: Vitalijs Jagodinskis from Jelgava for $190.0K, and a ticket office having a very good morning.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Skonto have kept their man, and Daugavpils go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at Daugavpils training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Joel Yakubu 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.
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.