Vitalijs Laizans

Striker - Liepaja
31 Aug 2026
Monday
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The Spartaks Post

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Eduards Ikaunieks damages knee ligaments — 123 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 123 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.

Match

Spartaks bow out of the cup

Skonto go through and Spartaks go home, 1‑3 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.

Market

Eduards Ikaunieks 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 The request is on a desk at Spartaks, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Veljko Bogićević 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 Spartaks this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Spartaks training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Arturs Stolcers 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.

Squad

No hiding place for Eduards Savalnieks

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

In brief