Marked for Arvydas Dapkus
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad23 Nov 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 54 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad23 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Utenis
Edvinas Girdvainis and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Arvydas Dapkus pulls a muscle — 14 days out
The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 14 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.
In brief
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Squad
A row about effort at Utenis
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad19 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Utenis
Marius Vaitkunas 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
The training reports on Rokas Lasickas are not good
A bad Saturday is forgiven; a bad Tuesday is chosen. Standards have slipped and in a building where everybody watches everybody, it has been noticed.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Through a full week of training without a reaction, and already asking for a place. Utenis will be careful with him and he will resent every day of it.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad28 Sep 2026
Arvydas Dapkus damages knee ligaments — 17 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 17 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Paulius Lasickas is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad28 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Utenis
Justas Eliosius and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad21 Sep 2026
24 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Utenis lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad21 Sep 2026
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 dugout21 Sep 2026
Fiodor Cernych 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 Fiodor Cernych trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad14 Sep 2026
31 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Utenis lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
Vikintas Kazlauskas is still being punished for one mistake
Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.
Market14 Sep 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Utenis, another week without a signature from Paulius Sernas.