The Utenis Chronicle
Squad15 Mar 2027
Karolis Slavickas damages knee ligaments — 81 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 81 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Ander Marticorena 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 Utenis this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces15 Mar 2027
The crowd has taken to Ander Marticorena
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.
Match13 Mar 2027
Utenis find a way past Siauliai
Siauliai made Utenis work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings15 Mar 2027
Nobody could get near Darius Girdvainis
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Aidas Eliosius out for 16 days
The medical room confirms 16 days on the sidelines for Aidas Eliosius, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Player ratings15 Mar 2027
Nobody on the pitch touched Ander Marticorena
7.78, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Utenis had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
The dugout15 Mar 2027
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.” Ignas Kazlauskas kept it short after the 1‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
The dugout15 Mar 2027
Quentin Bena knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Quentin Bena trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
In brief
- Looking ahead Utenis take on the side everybody is chasing
- Looking ahead Simas Venckevičius goes back to face Suduva
- The dugout Donatas Simkus does not fit this one