The Stumbras Herald
Market24 May 2027
Tomas Barauskas puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Stumbras, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings24 May 2027
Both of them Tomas Barauskas's — 8.32
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.32, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings24 May 2027
Age has not caught Saulius Simkus yet — 7.96
At 34 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.96 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Squad24 May 2027
Tempers go at Stumbras
Ignas Dapkus 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.
Match22 May 2027
Stumbras see off Kauno Zalgiris
Three points for Stumbras, 3‑2 the final word against Kauno Zalgiris in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Match22 May 2027
Stumbras leaking at the back
4 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.
Loan watch24 May 2027
Deividas Klimavicius counts the days
“I watch every Stumbras game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Kauno Zalgiris runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Squad24 May 2027
Words at Stumbras training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lukas Barauskas 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.
Squad24 May 2027
Tomas Barauskas has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Stumbras will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
In brief
- Squad Fiodor Sernas makes his debut at 15
- Player ratings Edgaras Jankauskas runs at them all day
- Player ratings The referee tires of Karolis Eliosius