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On Saturday, the fourth round of matches took place in the Lithuanian "A League" championship. Defending champions "Kaunas" and "Atlantas" secured their third victories, while "Vilnius" won away, and "Sūduva" snatched their first points in the final minutes. After today's matches, where "Ekranas" defeated "Vėtra," "Kaunas" tried not to fall too far behind the leader - the six-time national champions thrashed "Šilutė" away. The most productive player of the league, R.Beniušis, scored two goals for the winners, taking his total to 5 goals already, while A.Puotkalis and G.Barevičius added one goal each. A dramatic victory, becoming the first of the season, was achieved by Marijampolė's "Sūduva," coached by Italians, who defeated the "Šiauliai" team at home. Former Lithuanian national team player D.Maciulevičius scored the winning goal during the last attack, stopping the ball at the edge of the penalty area and skillfully striking it into the far bottom corner of the goal. An intriguing match took place at Vilnius' "Žalgiris" stadium, where the home team failed to take revenge on Klaipėda's "Atlantas" and had to admit another defeat. M.Žigutis initially put the visitors ahead, and although "Žalgiris" equalized the score after M.Bezykornov's goal, A.Bartkus scored in the middle of the second half to help "Atlantas" take three valuable points from the capital. Failing to secure any points is Kėdainiai's "Nevėžis," who had to acknowledge the superiority of the Vilnius team this time. R.Radavičius and M.Panka stood out among the Vilnius team, with the latter scoring his third goal of the season. The next, fifth round will take place on April 26-27, in the middle of next week. On Tuesday at 17:00 "Ekranas" will play against "Žalgiris," and "Atlantas" against "Nevėžis," while under artificial lighting at 18:30 "Kaunas" will face "Vėtra," and at 19:30 "Vilnius" will begin their battle with "Sūduva." On Wednesday from 17:00 the match between "Šilutė" and "Šiauliai" will take place. Tournament table Statistics of the 4th round matches Klaipėda "Žalgiris" Stadium, 110 spectators 0 - 4 3' [0 - 1] Ričardas Beniušis 62' [0 - 2] Andrius Puotkalis 64' [0 - 3] Giedrius Barevičius 72' [0 - 4] Ričardas Beniušis "Šilutė": Stonys (53' Normantas); Gaurilovas, Bagužis, Užkuraitis, T.Kazlauskas; Česnulis, Mačiulis (46' Sulimenko), Butkus, Kaminskas; Juška (46' Kazakevičius), Alilujev "Kaunas": Kurskis; Zelmikas, Kančelskis, Kunevičius, Regelskis; Barevičius, Gussev (46' Pacevičius), Ivaškevičius, Poderis (46' Kšanavičius); Puotkalis (66' Papečkys), Beniušis Vilnius "Žalgiris" Stadium, 780 spectators 1 - 2 19' [0 - 1] Mindaugas Žigutis 37' [1 - 1] Marius Bezykornovas 65' [1 - 2] Andrius Bartkus "Žalgiris": Leus; Mikuckis (68' Miliškevičius), Gražiūnas, Paknys, Jokšas (73' Jasaitis); Šilo, Petrenko, Bezykornovas, Lemežis; Morinas, Kaušpadas "Atlantas": Valius; Tolis, E.Žukauskas, Gnedojus, Žigutis; Navikas, Žernys, Šarūnas, Tautvydas (57' Bartkus); Laurišas (87' Ringys), Trakys (46' Žvingilas) Marijampolė Stadium, 1500 spectators 1 - 0 90+2' [1 - 0] Darius Maciulevičius "Sūduva": Padimanskas; Klevinskas, Gvildys, Veikutis, Čigladze; Adomaitis, Afanasenka (75' Uselis), Butkus, D.Maciulevičius; Radzinevičius, Sagna (50' Urbšys) "Šiauliai": V.Žutautas; Tučinskij, Oriol, Lunskis, Juodeikis, Krukovski; Smilginas (60' Kavolis), Balčiūnas (65' Daniličevas), Šidlauskas, Atigbiolaye (77' Siciūnas); Butavičius Kaunas S.Dariaus and S.Girėno Stadium, 50 spectators 0 - 2 15' [0 - 1] Ramūnas Radavičius 79 [0 - 2] Mindaugas Panka "Nevėžis": M.Poškus; Stančius, Rabikauskas, Klimakovas, Khubutia; Juknevičius (63' Adomaitis), Dorošenko, Kestenis, Činikas; Stankevičius, Popovas (46' Petrusevičius) "Vilnius": Kijewski; Artiomovas, Sokolovas, Kazlauskas, G.Barbosa; Panka, Radavičius (22' Žarnovskis), Katsitadze, Lukša (85' Buinickij); Bakalag, Astrauskas (59' Jeršovas)
