The Lithuanian Championship Season Has Begun (Updated) © EuroFootball.com

On Saturday, the 2007 Lithuanian A League championship started with matches of the first round. The favorites "Kaunas" and "Ekranas" started the season with victories, the Vilnius derby ended goalless, "Žalgiris" snatched a victory in Klaipėda, and "Sūduva" crushed "Šilutė".

Match statistics of the 1st round

Vilnius "Žalgiris" stadium, 340 spectators Referee - Nerijus Dunauskas Visaginas 2 - 3 FBK ([link="http://www.eurofootball.com/index.php?page=news&id=9402"]More about the match[/link]) 2' [0 - 1] Ričardas Beniušis 23' [0 - 2] Audrius Kšanavičius 33' [1 - 2] Artūras Jeršovas 55' [1 - 3] Mindaugas Bagužis 57' [2 - 3] Artūras Jeršovas

"Interas": Dubrovskij; Tučinskij, Rimas (46' Savickas), Gribauskas, Slepakovas; Afanasenko (46' Naumov), Stanaitis, Rinaldo (61' Matulevičius), G.Širmelis, Macianskis; Jeršovas

"Kaunas": Malinauskas; Kunevičius, Radžius, Bagužis, Mrowiec; Kšanavičius (63' Pehlič), Bartkus (70' Ledesma), Strakhanovic, Činikas; Rimkevičius (64' Kvaratskhelia), Beniušis

Klaipėda "Žalgiris" stadium, 600 spectators Referee - Vitalijus Kazlauskas 1 - 2 30' [1 - 0] Luka Aničič 80' [1 - 1] Igoris Morinas 90' [1 - 2] Edvinas Lukoševičius

"Atlantas": A.Lekevičius; Šarūnas, Gnedojus, Begič, Ramonas; Navikas, Petreikis, Silič (62' Noreika), Pokorn; Aničič, Daunoravičius (67' Žvingilas)

"Žalgiris": Šetkus; Lukoševičius, I.Steško, Ngapunu, Dubina (76' Misiuk); Choruži, Vilėniškis, Ostap (3' Lemežis), Poderis (66' Mižigurskis), Bursuc; Morinas

Marijampolė "Sūduva" stadium, 2200 spectators Referee - Viktoras Chileckis 4 - 1 ([link="http://www.eurofootball.com/index.php?page=news&id=9407"]More about the match[/link]) 26' [1 - 0] Aleksandr Sobol 45' [1 - 1] Tadas Straleckas 53' [2 - 1] Willer Souza Oliveira 62' [3 - 1] Sergiy Kozyuberda 64' [4 - 1] Gvidas Juška

"Sūduva": S.Klevinskas; Grigas, Milevskiy, M.Skinderis, Sobol; G.Slavickas (66' Urbšys), Mačiulis, Miklinevičius, Kozyuberda (87' Litvinas); Willer (72' Jasaitis), Juška

"Šilutė": Hertelendi; Regelskis, A.Sanajevas, Brezina, Khubutia; Zubavičius, Vičius (58' Podelis), Bezykornovas, Kovačev (82' T.Kijanskas), Valskis (84' Petkevičius); Straleckas

Vilnius "Vėtra" stadium, 811 spectators Referee - Paulius Malžinskas 0 - 0 ([link="http://www.eurofootball.com/index.php?page=news&id=9408"]More about the match[/link])

"Vilnius": Valius; Radavičius, Rodnei, Artiomovas, Freidgeimas; Paulinho, Erasmo, Andreson, Lukša; Adilson (62' Muller), Kleyr (88' Wasiu)

"Vėtra": Žutautas; Sasnauskas (57' Sulejmanovič), Skerla, Budimir, Jankauskas, Pedro; Panka, Raliukonis, Butrimavičius; Severino (81' Azizi), Stankevičius (57' Juška)

Panevėžys "Aukštaitija" stadium, 1250 spectators Referee - Saulius Atmanavičius 2 - 0 ([link="http://www.eurofootball.com/index.php?page=news&id=9409"]More about the match[/link]) 1' [1 - 0] Vitalijus Kavaliauskas 54' [2 - 0] Giedrius Tomkevičius

"Ekranas": Stefanovič; Paulauskas, Rahn, L.Klimavičius, Skroblas; Bička, Tomkevičius (71' Galkevičius), Savėnas, Pogreban (53' Šidlauskas); Kavaliauskas, Lukšys (83' Varnas)

"Šiauliai": G.Arlauskis; Kirchners (80' Strockis), Žukauskas, Lunskis, Juodeikis; Šilėnas, Zabara (72' Olišauskas), M.Lukoševičius, D.Arlauskis (58' Viktoravičius); Raskov, Tsiganenko