The Jelgava Sentinel
Squad5 Apr 2027
Vitalijs Jagodinskis damages knee ligaments — 97 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 97 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.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Kristaps Ikaunieks keeps Jelgava in it on his own
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Tempers go at Jelgava
Francisco Décima 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.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Words at Jelgava training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dominik Javorček 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.
Player ratings5 Apr 2027
Nothing got past Aleksandrs Rugins
20 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.
Player ratings5 Apr 2027
Kaspars Stolcers runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
In brief
- Match Point won or two lost for Jelgava?
- Player ratings An afternoon Kaspars Oss will want back