The Atlantas Herald
Match12 Aug 2026
The cup run ends for Atlantas
0‑1 against Kauno Zalgiris, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
The ground has had enough
“We travel everywhere and we get this.” 13 of the 32 senior players heard it walking off, and the ones who did not hear it were not playing.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
A first appearance Mantas Lasickas will want to forget — 5.22
Everybody's debut is one of two stories and this was the other one. 5.22, and the only consolation available is that nobody's career has ever been decided by ninety minutes in a shirt he had just been given.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Vykintas Barauskas in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Atlantas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad17 Aug 2026
No hiding place for Vykintas Barauskas
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Vykintas Barauskas, and the manager let it.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Deividas Mikoliunas signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Deividas Mikoliunas commits to Atlantas for another 3 years.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Justas Satkus has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Atlantas 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.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Tadas Paulauskas could not find anything
4.94. Every footballer has these and most of them happen away from a full ground; his did not, and he will be aware of that all week.
Market17 Aug 2026
Donatas Sernas told to find a new club
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Donatas Sernas has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Atlantas.
In brief
- Player ratings An afternoon Arvydas Kuklys will want back
- Player ratings A day to forget for Rokas Kazlauskas
- Market Andrius Barauskas placed on the list