Andreas Schmid

Left Midfielder - Siauliai
28 Dec 2031
Sunday
Process

Marked for Andreas Schmid

201 Edition

The Siauliai Gazette

3 Jun 2030
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Full time on the season at Siauliai

Position 6 on 14 points. Every season is a story and this is the last line of it, and now the club has three months to decide what the next one is about.

Squad

Miloš Zličić takes the match ball home

3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.

Squad

A falling-out at Siauliai

Miloš Zličić and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match

Trakai take the points off Siauliai

Beaten 3‑4, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Match

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 Siauliai and Trakai in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.

Player ratings

Miloš Zličić was on a different afternoon to everybody else

9.37. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Squad

Words at Siauliai training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Davor Nedeljković 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 ratings

Daniel Simon was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 17. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

The dugout

No hiding place for Abdullahi Shehu

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

In brief

  • The dugout The view from the dugout
  • Squad A place in the month's best eleven for Andreas Schmid
  • The dugout Abdullahi Shehu gets picked when it counts
Back issues
193 Edition

The Siauliai Gazette

8 Apr 2030
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Šimon Drozd sends Siauliai through

Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Šimon Drozd obliged against Trakai. 2‑1 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Siauliai.

Match

Siauliai win it in stoppage time

The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 104th minute. Trakai will replay every second of the added time for a week.

Player ratings

A brace, and Nikola Pavlica takes the afternoon — 9.32

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Nikola Pavlica provided it, and the 9.32 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Player ratings

Šimon Drozd scores twice — 8.78

Two goals and a mark of 8.78 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Player ratings

A debut Andreas Schmid will not forget — 7.88

There is exactly one of these per career and it does not usually go like this. 0 on the scoresheet, 7.88 beside the name, and a crowd that had never seen him before chanting it by the end.

Squad

6 saves: Serif Berbic was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Squad

A falling-out at Siauliai

Serif Berbic and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Player ratings

Vido Marković was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 21. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Match

Siauliai get the job done against Stumbras

A 3‑2 win over Stumbras, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

In brief