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II Round Statistics and facts Players' age. In the second round, the youngest team on the field was the "Spyris" team, with an average age of all players on the field being 21.85 years. The oldest team was "Utenis" with an average age of 25.21 years. The age did not affect the results of the matches - two matches were won by the younger team, two by the older team, and the remaining matches ended in a tie. Team substitution strategy. After substitutions, five teams ("Sūduva", "Šiauliai", "Spyris", "Granitas", and "Žalgiris") made their teams younger, two teams let in older players ("Stumbras", "Atlantas"). The average age of the remaining three teams ("Kruoja", "Utenis", and "Trakai") did not change at the beginning and end of the matches. Guests score more goals. In the second round, away teams not only won four matches and played a draw once but also scored three times more goals (9 goals) than the teams playing at home (3 goals). Teams depending most/least on foreign players' goals. In the "Atlantas" team, out of 7 goals scored in two rounds, all of them were scored by foreign players. In the "Žalgiris" team, foreign players scored 75% of all team goals (3 out of 4). Only Lithuanians scored goals in the first two rounds in six teams ("Šiauliai", "Stumbras", "Trakai", "Granitas", "Kruoja", "Utenis"). "Most Lithuanian" position. Out of ten A league clubs, nine entrusted their team goals to Lithuanians. The only team "Kruoja" in the second round had a Brazilian Felipe Gomes in the goal. Comparison with other world leagues Points scored in away matches. In the second round of the A league, the away teams scored 13 points (2.6 per match). In terms of points scored away from home, in the second round the A league was more than twice ahead of other European leagues - Italy's Serie A (1.3 points), Portugal's Primeira Liga (1.11 points), and France's Ligue 1 (1.1 points). Top scorer. After two rounds, having scored 6 goals, Andrejus Paniukovas led the A league table of "snipers". After two rounds, no other league had such a productive player - neither the Dutch Eredivisie, where M. Depay from "PSV" scored 4 goals, nor the Russian Premier League, where A. Kokorin, who belongs to the same team as Paniukovas - Moscow's "Dinamo", and A. Dzyuba from Moscow's "Spartak" also scored 4 goals each. In the Ukrainian Premier League, after the second round, the top scorer Olexiy Gai scored even less - 3 goals. III Round Statistics and facts Modest contribution of substitutes. Out of all 13 goals scored in this round, only one was scored by a player who came off the bench. It should be noted that this goal did not change the situation - Rokas Sikorskis from "Spyris" scored the goal when his team was already trailing 0-4 and only narrowed the result. Maintained advantage. In this round, all teams that scored first celebrated victories. The only "Žalgiris" team allowed "Šiauliai" to equalize the result twice, but they also won with a score of 3-2. First defeats. In this round, three teams stumbled, which had won the first two rounds ("Sūduva", "Spyris", "Atlantas"). The only team that did not lose any points after three rounds became the country's champion Vilnius "Žalgiris". Red cards. In the first two rounds, no player received a red card, but in the third round, two red cards were shown. Andrius Arlauskas received such a penalty for two yellow cards, and Edvinas Jasaitis was sent off with a direct red card from the field. Broken goal streaks. In the first two matches without scoring against the opponents' goals, Andrėjus Paniukovas, Tomas Radzinevičius, Andrius Velička, and Lukas Kochanauskas were disappointed - none of them scored a goal against the opponents' goal. However, Tomas Radzinevičius did not finish the match without a goal - he directed the ball into his own goal after a corner kick. Best/worst first/second half teams. Among all A league teams, the team of Kaunas "Stumbras" plays the best first half (5 goals scored, 0 goals conceded), while "Šiauliai" is the worst (1 goal scored, 5 goals conceded). In the second half, three teams - "Žalgiris", "Atlantas", and "Sūduva" (all with 5 goals scored and 1 goal conceded) - showed the best results, while the worst numbers are in "Trakai" statistics (0 goals scored, 5 goals conceded). "Stumbras" is also the most scoring and only team not to concede a goal in the first half, while Sūduva is the only team not to score a goal in the first half. In the second half, all teams conceded at least one goal, with two of them not scoring a goal (Trakai, Utenis). "Žalgiris" was the only team to score more goals than the opponents in both halves, and "Utenis" is the only team with a worse goal ratio than the opponents. Comparison with other world leagues Points scored by new teams. In the first three rounds, the teams debuting in the A league ("Spyris", "Stumbras", and "Utenis") scored 12 points (1.33 per match). Two Belgian Pro League clubs that have risen from a lower league performed better than Lithuanian teams (11 points - 1.83 per match), but our country's teams led the rankings in terms of points scored ahead of three Super Lig teams in Turkey (10 points - 1.11 per match) and the only newcomer in the Swiss Super League (1 point - 0.33 per match). Goals scored by local players. In this round, excluding two goals scored into their own net, Lithuanians scored 8 out of 11 goals scored (73% of all goals). In the third round of other European leagues, Czechs in the Czech Liga scored slightly more than Lithuanians in their competition (14 out of 19 goals - 74% of all goals). However, Lithuanians scored a larger portion of goals than Romanians in the Liga 1 competition (13 goals out of 20 - 65% of all goals) and significantly outperformed Greeks in their Super League matches (only 2 goals out of 21 - 9% of all goals).
