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On Friday, in a friendly match at the "Sportima" arena in Vilnius, the A Lyga vice-champion FBK, who finished third in last year's Lithuanian championship in Marijampolė, played a friendly match. The victory with a score of 3-0 was achieved by the Kaunas club.
"Kaunas", missing Edin Pehličiaus who was stuck in Bosnia due to his mother's death, and Arkadiusz Klimek who recently recovered from an injury, took the initiative in the first half and broke through in the 13th minute when an open Tadas Papečkys received a long pass on the left side and accurately shot into the far corner of the goal.
The "Sūduva" team, which was not at its strongest and almost without any of its legionnaires, played a game based on counterattacks, but despite a few dangerous quick attacks, the players from Marijampolė failed to score.
In the second half, "Kaunas" came out on the field with almost a completely different lineup, as seven players were replaced, but the picture on the field remained the same with the country's vice-champions continuing to dominate, with the attacking duo of R.Beniušis and A.Velička returning from a trial in Scotland.
It was precisely this duo that contributed the most to two more goals for "Kaunas" - in the 83rd minute, A.Velička finally doubled the opponent's defense after a pass from R.Beniušis, and just before the end of the match, R.Beniušis received a pass in the opponent's half and scored.
After the main teams' meeting, the second teams came out onto the renovated "Sportima" arena field. This time there was even less intrigue - the stronger "Kaunas" team left no hopes for their opponents and crushed them with a score of 5-0. The winning team saw striker Artūras Rimkevičius scoring once, while defenders Marius Kižys and Nerijus Mačiulis each scored twice.
For "Kaunas", this was the final rehearsal before the annual Friendship Cup tournament starting in Moscow next week. The Lithuanian team will play in Group D alongside Yerevan's "Pyunik" (Armenia), Soligorsk's "Shakhtyor" (Belarus), and the unbeaten Russian youth (under 19).
