The Jelgava Sentinel
Squad17 May 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Janis Cauna
53 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Jelgava lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match17 May 2027
Jelgava sink to position 5
11 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Player ratings17 May 2027
Davis Vanins goes up and wins it — 7.32
A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.32 for the rest of it.
Match15 May 2027
Spartaks take the points off Jelgava
Beaten 3‑4, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Match15 May 2027
Nobody could stop scoring
7 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Jelgava and Spartaks in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Squad17 May 2027
Kaspars Cauna 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 Jelgava this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad17 May 2027
No hiding place for Raivis Kamess
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Raivis Kamess, and the manager let it.
Loan watch17 May 2027
Arturs Bulvitis has seen enough of Liepaja
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Jelgava, and 2 appearances in 17 say he has earned the hearing.
Squad17 May 2027
A promise honoured for Aleksandrs Jurkovskis
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Jelgava told Aleksandrs Jurkovskis something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
In brief
- Player ratings Igors Savalnieks changes it off the bench
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Lucas Zalazar