Marked for Edvinas Lasickas
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
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 Stumbras this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Tomas Lasickas 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.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Stumbras, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Uneasy
Squad31 Aug 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Shota Mikautadze
27 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Stumbras lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market31 Aug 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Stumbras can pretend not to have heard.
Market31 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: Siauliai have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Paulius Sernas. The answer from Stumbras has not changed — yet.
Squad31 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Stumbras
Rokas Lasickas and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad31 Aug 2026
26 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
“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.