The Daugavpils Gazette
Squad19 Apr 2027
52 days out for Ziad Ouled-Haj-M'hand after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Daugavpils will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Match19 Apr 2027
Every point is an argument now for Daugavpils
Position 7 and 1 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Match17 Apr 2027
The wait goes on for Daugavpils
7 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Tempers go at Daugavpils
Ziad Ouled-Haj-M'hand was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Match17 Apr 2027
The goals have deserted Daugavpils
3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Daugavpils can tell you which week it ends in.
Match17 Apr 2027
A bad afternoon for Daugavpils against Spartaks
0‑1 to Spartaks, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout19 Apr 2027
No hiding place for Ceti Junior Tchibinda
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ceti Junior Tchibinda, and the manager let it.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Joel Yakubu falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
The dugout19 Apr 2027
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Nikita Oss to a room that had heard them before.
In brief
- Squad Daugavpils are still strangers to each other
- Looking ahead Edgars Ivanovs faces his old club
- The dugout Edgars Ivanovs does not fit this one