The Trakai Courier
Squad25 Mar 2030
Tempers go at Trakai
Saulius Dubickas 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.
Squad25 Mar 2030
Tautvydas Burdzilauskas falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Player ratings25 Mar 2030
A masterclass from Marius Dapkus
Marked 8.09 — 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.
The dugout25 Mar 2030
No hiding place for Fiodor Lasickas
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Fiodor Lasickas, and the manager let it.
Match23 Mar 2030
Trakai share the spoils with Atlantas
A 1‑1 draw with Atlantas leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
The dugout25 Mar 2030
Half-satisfied: Andrius Satkus on the draw
“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 1‑1, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.
Player ratings25 Mar 2030
Rashad Pelage could have had three
13 attempts, none of them in. He got into the right places all afternoon, which is the hard part, and did the easy part badly — and that is the version of a bad day a manager can live with.
Looking ahead25 Mar 2030
Vykintas Mikoliunas goes back to face Utenis
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Vykintas Mikoliunas’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Trakai needing him to play as if none of it matters.
Player ratings25 Mar 2030
The chances came and went for Albert Hubocan
5 shots, and a count that reads like a good afternoon until you check the other column. Strikers survive weeks like this on the understanding that the chances keep arriving; the day they stop is the day it becomes a problem.
In brief
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Deividas Lasickas
- Squad Tautvydas Burdzilauskas goes off with his country
- The dugout The plan did not have a place for Tomas Novikovas