Malmö FF and Riga will play at least 180 minutes of football to decide who advances from this Champions League 1st Qualifying Round battle. Get ready for the first 90 minutes!
These are busy days for the home team, as they were in action only four days ago in the Allsvenskan. At least it's nice to return home after that away game at Norrköping.
14 - 2 - 7 with 46-26. What does this mean? Well, these are the statistics for Riga when playing on grass like they will do today. Wins - draws- losses and goals scored-conceded. Riga play their home games on artifical turf so that's why we provide these numbers.
These teams have little in common geographically as Riga have to travel 800 kilometers to reach their opponents. The trip home will be especially long if the match ends in defeat.
Malmö FF form and stats
Malmö was eliminated in the play-offs last season in the Europa League.Overall Allsvenskan stats at home this season for Malmö FF are 4-1-0 (wins-draw-losses). The Malmö FF fans aren't used to losing league-games here at Malmö Stadion and will expect new points from this game. Malmö has played 24 games in a row here without a defeat.
Malmö lost their last game at Norrköping after a 2-3 scoreline. Antonio Čolak, who plays in attack, was the top performer for the team in that game, scoring a rating of 8.15 (out of 10). Čolak scored two goals, hit two key passes, dribled passed the opponent 1 of 2 times and had 23 successful passes (of 26 total).
Before that match, a Allsvenskan win away at Örebro.There's a new fixture coming up fairly quickly for Malmö, as the Allsvenskan home game vs Sirius is only three days away.
The Malmö FF manager J. Dahl Tomasson has got the team scoring with 12 from 5 home games in the league. 7 goals have been conceded.
Riga form and stats
They also participated in Champions League last season. This ended in the 1st qualifying round.As the visiting team in Virsliga matches, Riga have produced an overall stat of 2-2-3 so far. Riga has lost their two previous away games and are eager to kill a negative trend in its infancy.
Riga play their second straight away game, having lost the previous one 0-1 to Liepaja.
A home win before that, celebrating 2-1 vs Noah Jurmala.Riga are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 13 times in 7 away games so far. As opposed to that, Riga have seen the ball go into their own net 8 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  S. Milošević 11 goals | M. Soisalo 7 goals |   A. Čolak 5 goals |
Malmö FF missing players
Riga missing players
| Malmö FF | Riga | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 15 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 14 | 10 | Won | W | 5 | 17 | ||
| 3 | 2 | Drew | D | 2 | 2 | ||
| 8 | 3 | Lost | L | 5 | 6 | ||
| 49 | 33 | Scored | S | 21 | 57 | ||
| 34 | 16 | Conceded | C | 15 | 24 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 92% | 93% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 92% | 88% | ||
| 72% | 67% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 64% | ||
| 44% | 40% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 25% | 32% | ||
| 24% | 27% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 17% | 20% | ||
| 72% | 73% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 48% | ||
| 16% | 20% | Clean Sheets | C S | 33% | 40% | ||
| 12% | 7% | Failed to Score | F T | 17% | 12% | ||
| 6.7 | 6.6 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.3 | 5.3 | ||
| 4.5 | 4.6 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 2.4 | 2.5 | ||
| 2 | 1.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.9 | 2 | ||
| 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | ||
| 16.2 | 16.4 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 9.9 | 10.6 | ||
| 5.2 | 5.4 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.1 | 5 | ||
| 40% | 49% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 43% | 49% | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Malmö FF | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 20 | 16 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 4 | 20 |
| 2 | Djurgården | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 17 |
| 3 | Norrköping | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 13 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 14 |
| 4 | Degerfors | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 14 |
| 5 | AIK | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 14 |
| 6 | Elfsborg | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 12 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 13 |
| 7 | Kalmar | 8 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 13 |
| 8 | Hammarby | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 14 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 1 | 11 |
| 9 | Mjallby | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | -1 | 10 |
| 10 | IFK Göteborg | 8 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 9 |
| 11 | Halmstad | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 6 | -1 | 9 |
| 12 | Sirius | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 13 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 10 | -4 | 9 |
| 13 | Östersunds FK | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 12 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 8 |
| 14 | Varberg | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 10 | 17 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 7 | -7 | 7 |
| 15 | Örebro | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 16 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 11 | -11 | 7 |
| 16 | Häcken | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 4 | -2 | 6 |
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Rigas FS | 14 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 35 | 13 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 25 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 4 | 22 | 34 |
| 2 | Riga | 16 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 36 | 15 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 23 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 13 | 8 | 21 | 32 |
| 3 | Valmiera / BSS | 15 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 25 | 12 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 8 | 13 | 32 |
| 4 | Liepaja | 14 | 7 | 1 | 6 | 21 | 17 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 10 | 4 | 22 |
| 5 | Spartaks Jurmala | 14 | 5 | 0 | 9 | 18 | 23 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 5 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 8 | 18 | -5 | 15 |
| 6 | FC Daugavpils / Progress | 14 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 15 | 23 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 14 | -8 | 15 |
| 7 | Metta / LU | 14 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 13 | 27 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 18 | -14 | 9 |
| 8 | Noah Jurmala | 11 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 7 | 40 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 20 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 7 | 20 | -33 | 3 |
| 9 | Ventspils | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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