The Atlantas Herald
Squad15 May 2028
Vikintas Sernas damages knee ligaments — 27 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 27 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.
Squad15 May 2028
A fracture rules Linas Vaitkunas out for 45 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Atlantas will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match13 May 2028
6 matches without a win for Atlantas
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Atlantas are no longer polite ones.
Squad15 May 2028
Aidas Jankauskas keeps Atlantas in it on his own
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad15 May 2028
Yuta Tanaka says Atlantas went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Match13 May 2028
Modestas Valskis rescues a point for Atlantas
It needed Modestas Valskis to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Trakai, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
In brief
- Player ratings Linas Lasickas runs at them all day
- Player ratings Bas Xavi Simons never got going
- The terraces The press cannot get enough of Aidas Jankauskas