Getting ready for the upcoming World Cup qualification match against Slovakia, which will take place in Vilnius on June 10th, 23 players have been called up to the Lithuanian men's national football team.
Comparing to the last national team lineup for the match against England, Edvinas Gertmonas, who was the third goalkeeper, will represent the youth (U-21) national team, and a new player has been selected for his position. The goalkeeper from "Trakai" club, 23-year-old Ignas Plūkas, has been called up for the first time.
Two players - defender Egidijus Vaitkūnas and midfielder Artūras Žulpa - will miss this match due to receiving two yellow cards in the previous game against England.
After a four-year break, defender Martynas Dapkus has been called up to the national team camp, and after a shorter period, defenders Markas Beneta and Georgas Freidgeimas will join the team, as well as forward Darvydas Šernas, who was in the national team squad in March but suffered an injury before the training camp.
The national team training camp will take place next week in Vilnius. The match between Lithuania and Slovakia will be played on June 10th at the LFF stadium, starting at 9:45 pm. Tickets for the match are available at "Ticketmarket.lt".
List of Lithuanian national team candidates for the match against Slovakia:
Goalkeepers: Ernestas Šetkus ("ADO Den Haag", Netherlands) Emilijus Zubas (Tel Aviv "Bnei Yehuda", Israel) Ignas Plūkas (FK "Trakai")
Defenders: Rolandas Baravykas (Vilnius "Žalgiris") Markas Beneta (Klaipėda "Atlantas") Valdemar Borovskij (FK "Trakai") Georgas Freidgeimas (Vilnius "Žalgiris") Tadas Kijanskas (Brno "Zbrojovka", Czech Republic) Linas Klimavičius (Vilnius "Žalgiris") Arūnas Klimavičius (FK "Trakai") Vaidas Slavickas (Marijampolė "Sūduva")
Midfielders: Fedor Černych (Bialystok "Jagiellonia", Poland) Mindaugas Grigaravičius (FK "Jelgava", Latvia) Mantas Kuklys (Vilnius "Žalgiris") Vytautas Lukša (Vilnius "Žalgiris") Arvydas Novikovas (Bialystok "Jagiellonia", Poland) Simonas Paulius (FK "Ventspils", Latvia) Vykintas Slivka ("Ascoli Picchio", Italy) Ovidijus Verbickas (Marijampolė "Sūduva") Martynas Dapkus (FK "Jonava")
Forwards: Deivydas Matulevičius ("Royal Excel Mouscron", Belgium) Darvydas Šernas (Vilnius "Žalgiris") Nerijus Valskis (Tel Aviv "Bnei Yehuda", Israel)
