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Last year, the Lithuanian soccer team, mixed with the lands, managed to be reborn in 2020.
The Valdas Urbonas student had eight games during the calendar year, of which he won four times and played two draws twice.
| In 2020, the Lithuanian soccer team won twice as many games as the basketball team. It is true that basketball players can equal the number of victories with footballers if they win the two games of the “bubble” of Eurobasket 2021 with Danes and Belgians in Lithuania. |
Although the national team did not have qualifying matches for the European or world championships this year, so there was no need to compete with the soccer teams on the planet, the naked statistics are nice.
V.Urbonas, who has assembled a strong team core this year, finally has a team that is not only capable of outperforming weaker teams, but also fights admirably with competitors of a similar caliber.
Sigismund Gedvila / 15min photo / Valdas Urbonas
This is especially important as the team’s performance curve has dropped dramatically recently and the 2017-2019 period was the darkest in team history.
In 2017, he was knocked down to the bottom of the bottom and only won one draw in seven matches (1: 1 with Malta). This means that, on average, Lithuanians scored just 0.14 points per game three years ago, and this indicator is the worst ever.
2018 wasn’t much better either: a win in 12 matches and a draw or average. 0.33 points per game. V. Urbonas, who replaced E. Jankauskas as coach, also did not find a winning recipe in his first year.
In the debut year, the residents of Panevėžys burned brightly. V. Urbonas achieved victory with the Lithuanian team only in the last game of 2019, when they defeated New Zealand in a friendly. Before that, Urbon’s team still had ties with Azerbaijan (0: 0) and Luxembourg (1: 1), but the indicator of 0.5 points per game was not comfortable either.
„Reuters“ / „Scanpix“ nuotr./Valdas Urbonas
And then 2020 came, which mixed up all the usual rules of the world, and more precisely, autumn and three historic months for Lithuanian football.
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