The Zalgiris Courier
Squad12 Apr 2027
Liviu Antal damages knee ligaments — 93 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 93 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.
Match10 Apr 2027
10 unbeaten for Zalgiris
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 10 matches without defeat is a foundation Zalgiris did not have in the autumn.
Market12 Apr 2027
Only the photograph left for Marko Capan
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Marko Capan will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Zalgiris the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Bryan Teixeira 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 Zalgiris this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market12 Apr 2027
Karolis Simkus steps up from the Zalgiris academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Karolis Simkus has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market12 Apr 2027
Zalgiris promote Karolis Satkus from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Karolis Satkus has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Squad12 Apr 2027
The manager makes an example of Thanasis Papadoudis
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Player ratings12 Apr 2027
One of those days for Bryan Teixeira
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.25, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Words at Zalgiris training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Saba Mamatsashvili 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.
In brief
- Match Bryan Teixeira rescues a point for Zalgiris
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Paulius Golubickas
- Player ratings Off the bench and decisive: Exequiel Oviedo