The Spartaks Post
Squad15 Mar 2027
Marcis Bulvitis keeps Spartaks in it on his own
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Player ratings15 Mar 2027
Up for the corner, and Patrik Vydra delivers — 7.08
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Patrik Vydra scored, was marked 7.08, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Player ratings15 Mar 2027
Janis Stolcers did the work nobody counts — 6.60
15 combined actions and 6.60. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Patrik Vydra 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 ratings15 Mar 2027
Pavels Savalnieks ran the middle of the pitch — 6.65
He won it back and then made something of it, which is two jobs and the reason the scoreline looks the way it does. 13 combined actions and a mark of 6.65, and not one of them will make a highlights package.
Loan watch15 Mar 2027
Davis Jurkovskis counts the days
“I watch every Spartaks game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Metta/LU runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
In brief
- Squad Kaspars Cauna in a row with a teammate
- Squad Aleksandrs Ikaunieks signs on for more
- Match Spartaks share the spoils with Skonto
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Luca Meirelles