The Trakai Courier
Squad19 Apr 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Saulius Simkus
20 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Trakai lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match17 Apr 2027
The wait goes on for Trakai
6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Words at Trakai training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yukiyoshi Karashima 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.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Tempers go at Trakai
Alexey Tkhagalegov 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 Apr 2027
The manager makes an example of Edgaras Dubickas
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Player ratings19 Apr 2027
A masterclass from Vykintas Jankauskas
Marked 8.19 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
In brief
- Loan watch Donatas Cernych has seen enough of Suduva
- Match Trakai and Siauliai take a point apiece
- Player ratings Rokas Mikoliunas runs at them all day
- Player ratings Lukas Satkus never got going