Kaspars Laizans

Striker - Skonto U20
1 Jan 2028
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Marked for Kaspars Laizans

38 Edition

The Skonto Gazette

19 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad19 Apr 2027

Ifeagwu Ojukwu breaks a bone — 79 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 79 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad19 Apr 2027

A knee injury of the worst kind for Kaspars Laizans

19 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Skonto lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad19 Apr 2027

Words exchanged at Skonto

Ifeagwu Ojukwu and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad19 Apr 2027

Skonto lose Kaspars Fertovs

56 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Player ratings19 Apr 2027

Vitalijs Jurkovskis takes the honours

Marked 7.70 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Skonto had the best player on the pitch.

Match17 Apr 2027

Skonto share the spoils with Jelgava

A 1‑1 draw with Jelgava leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

The dugout19 Apr 2027

Abdulrafiu Taiwo gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Abdulrafiu Taiwo is on it.

The dugout19 Apr 2027

Davis Oss: “We have to be better”

“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 1‑1 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.

Player ratings19 Apr 2027

Rachid Moumini runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 13. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

Back issues
37 Edition

The Skonto Gazette

12 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad12 Apr 2027

Ifeagwu Ojukwu breaks a bone — 87 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 87 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad12 Apr 2027

Kaspars Laizans damages knee ligaments — 26 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 26 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.

Market12 Apr 2027

Only the photograph left for Alvis Ikaunieks

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Alvis Ikaunieks will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Skonto the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad12 Apr 2027

A falling-out at Skonto

Ifeagwu Ojukwu and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad12 Apr 2027

A row about effort at Skonto

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ikenna Motors was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout12 Apr 2027

No hiding place for Mory Cissé

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mory Cissé, and the manager let it.

Player ratings12 Apr 2027

Rachid Moumini was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 16. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Loan watch12 Apr 2027

Olegs Tarasovs wants to come home

“I did not go to Ventspils to sit and watch. I want to come back to Skonto and fight for my place.” 4 appearances in 13 matches say the rest.

The dugout12 Apr 2027

The view from the dugout

“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Davis Oss chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.

In brief

36 Edition

The Skonto Gazette

5 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad5 Apr 2027

Ifeagwu Ojukwu breaks a bone — 94 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 94 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad5 Apr 2027

Kaspars Laizans damages knee ligaments — 34 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 34 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.

The dugout5 Apr 2027

Rachid Moumini: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Skonto have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad5 Apr 2027

8 saves: Nikita Jurkovskis was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 8 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Squad5 Apr 2027

Alvis Jaunzems 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.

Match3 Apr 2027

Kaspars Laizans rescues a point for Skonto

It needed Kaspars Laizans to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Liepaja, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

The dugout5 Apr 2027

Half-satisfied: Davis Oss 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.

The dugout5 Apr 2027

The manager makes an example of Joaquim Marques

“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.

The dugout5 Apr 2027

Somebody else is better right now than Kristaps Dubra

The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.

In brief