EPISODE · Aug 15, 2026 · 49 MIN
The darkest day in Estonian football? UCL/UECL QR3 Review
from Baltic Football Podcast · host Baltic football news
What is left after European qualifiers round 3? From squad depth and transfer timing to whether Baltic clubs can ever plan their way past a budget gap of 237 million euros against 9, and domestic title races that are now wide open in all three countries - Janis, Titas and Morten join the podcast to work out how a summer that delivered twelve Latvian wins and Estonia's second best coefficient haul on record still ended with almost nobody left in Europe.Auda went to Albania holding a lead and came home beaten 4-0. RFS were eliminated at home in a game the panel picks apart at length, with a goalkeeping department that has been a question mark all year. Flora lost 6-0 on aggregate to an Andorran side and set off a genuine argument about whether a club can keep filling its squad with local players and still expect to compete. Against all of that, Kauno Žalgiris became only the second Lithuanian club to reach a European league phase and Riga FC produced what one of the most dominant away performances by a Latvian club in recent memory.(00:00:56) Twelve wins, one survivor: reading the coefficient table (00:04:14) Auda in Albania: how a lead became a 4-0 defeat (00:07:14) RFS are out, and the goalkeeping question nobody has answered (00:12:30) Lithuania in Croatia: measuring the gap to Dinamo Zagreb (00:16:30) Trossard, budgets and whether tactics can close a money gap (00:20:37) Estonia's rescue mission for a place in the top 50 (00:23:35) Flora, Andorra and the darkest day in Estonian club football (00:26:17) The foreigners debate: does an all Estonian squad still work? (00:30:49) Paide in Azerbaijan, Rapid Vienna, and Levadia's night in Sweden (00:34:31) The 7-2 in Vilnius: the best comeback in Lithuanian football history (00:37:33) Riga FC in Hungary: forty-five minutes of total control (00:42:11) Player of the summer and the best Baltic side in Europe (00:45:48) Title races, the fourth place fight, and what to watch nextFor the latest and most up to date news on Latvian, Lithuanian and Estonian football, visit www.balticfootballnews.com
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