Opening
Kaliningrad have had a season without loud noise but with rare stability: 46 points after 27 rounds, only three defeats and one of the best defensive structures in the league. Now the main risk is not a weak squad but the wrong reinforcements: under the new foreigner limit every non-Russian slot has to work, and the summer will show whether Baltika has become a system.
One of Baltika's most interesting seasons is drawing to a close. Before the start there was no feeling the team would sweep everyone aside. There was no long winning run and no single superhero carrying every round. There was something else: week after week, Baltika simply did not fall apart.
