There's no exiting this stadium without a winner tonight as it's the second leg of the Europa Conference League 2nd Qualifying Round meeting between Riga and Ružomberok. Game on!
This football pitch has artifical turf, which is not Ružomberok's usual surface at their own ground. When appearing on artifical turf Ružomberok have performed like this: Played six matches yielding 2 wins, 2 draws and 2 defeats with the goal difference 8-7 (scored/conceded).
Ružomberok have a very long trip to this away game, as there's more than 1100 kilometers in distance to cover. This could prove a challenge, at least for the supporters.
There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.
Riga form and stats
This is not the first game this season in the Europa Conference League for Riga, as the manager Perković led his troops to eliminate Derry City, and reach the 2nd Qualifying Round. Last season, Riga's Europa Conference League journey ended in the play-offs against Lincoln Red Imps.Home games in the Virsliga have been a walk in the park for Riga so far, with 30 points won from 12 matches; 10 wins, 0 draws and 2 losses. On the other hand, in the Europa Conference League, Riga has performed like this (both home and away): 3 wins, 0 draws and 0 losses.
The Riga club members enjoyed the previous fixture, watching their team host Spartaks Jurmala and win 2-1.
There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Riga as they are travelling to their away game against FC Daugavpils / Progress in the Virsliga. That match is three days after this one.
Riga have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Stadions Skonto with 20 goals in 12 league matches. As for guarding their own goal, Riga have only let in 5 goals at home.
Ružomberok form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Kauno Zalgiris in order to reach 2nd qualifying round of Europa Conference League.1 win, 0 draws and 0 losses. That’s the product of Ružomberok playing as the away team in the Super Liga this season. When we have look at the Europa Conference League statistics, we find 1W-1D-1L. This is both home and away.
Ružomberok's last game ended in a draw, the home match versus Podbrezova that finished 2-2.
aweayteam Hara magic won. We have checked recent matches where Ružomberok have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those 4 games were 1 victory, 1 draw and 2 defeats.
There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Ružomberok manager Struhár as the team has another away game coming up in only three days, this time against Liptovsky Mikulas.
Ružomberok have the goal stats of 2-0 (for/against) from 1 business trip in the league at this early stage of the season.
Head 2 Head
Here's the final score when the teams faced each other previously this season; Ružomberok - Riga 0-3.Top Goalscorers
  G. Ramos da Penha 7 goals |  J. Barnes 6 goals | J. Kendysh 4 goals |
Riga missing players
Ružomberok missing players
| Riga | Ružomberok | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 11 | 25 | ||
| 17 | 10 | Won | W | 4 | 11 | ||
| 2 | 0 | Drew | D | 5 | 9 | ||
| 6 | 3 | Lost | L | 2 | 5 | ||
| 40 | 20 | Scored | S | 14 | 38 | ||
| 14 | 6 | Conceded | C | 10 | 24 | ||
| 92% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 64% | 76% | ||
| 64% | 69% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 64% | 72% | ||
| 36% | 23% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 36% | 44% | ||
| 16% | 8% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 36% | 36% | ||
| 8% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 18% | 16% | ||
| 16% | 8% | BTTS | BTTS | 45% | 44% | ||
| 64% | 69% | Clean Sheets | C S | 55% | 44% | ||
| 28% | 23% | Failed to Score | F T | 36% | 36% | ||
| 6.9 | 8.2 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.2 | 4 | ||
| 3.2 | 3.4 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.8 | 3.9 | ||
| 2.1 | 1.8 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.2 | 1.7 | ||
| 2 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | ||
| 12.5 | 13.4 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11 | 11.8 | ||
| 5.1 | 5.1 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5.2 | 5 | ||
| 31% | 30% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 25% | 31% | ||
| 7.2 | 6.6 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 10.9 | 9 | ||
| 2.9 | 2.5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3.3 | 3.3 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Valmiera | 22 | 18 | 2 | 2 | 59 | 12 | 12 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 34 | 6 | 10 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 25 | 6 | 47 | 56 |
| 2 | Rigas FS | 22 | 15 | 4 | 3 | 53 | 20 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 23 | 7 | 11 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 30 | 13 | 33 | 49 |
| 3 | Riga | 22 | 15 | 2 | 5 | 35 | 13 | 12 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 20 | 5 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 15 | 8 | 22 | 47 |
| 4 | Liepāja | 20 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 40 | 20 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 17 | 11 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 23 | 9 | 20 | 40 |
| 5 | Auda | 22 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 31 | 19 | 10 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 20 | 10 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 9 | 12 | 37 |
| 6 | FC Daugavpils / Progress | 21 | 7 | 3 | 11 | 16 | 38 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 11 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 27 | -22 | 24 |
| 7 | Tukums | 22 | 6 | 2 | 14 | 21 | 44 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 11 | 24 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 10 | 20 | -23 | 20 |
| 8 | Spartaks Jurmala | 21 | 4 | 2 | 15 | 17 | 44 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 10 | 20 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 24 | -27 | 14 |
| 9 | Metta / LU | 22 | 3 | 4 | 15 | 22 | 53 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 12 | 25 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 10 | 28 | -31 | 13 |
| 10 | Super Nova | 22 | 1 | 5 | 16 | 10 | 41 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 23 | 11 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 4 | 18 | -31 | 8 |
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Ružomberok | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 2 | Zemplin Michalovce | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 3 | Podbrezova | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| 4 | DAC | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 5 | Slovan Bratislava | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 |
| 6 | Spartak Trnava | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 7 | Banska Bystrica | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -1 | 3 |
| 8 | Zilina | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 9 | Liptovsky Mikulas | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -1 | 1 |
| 10 | Skalica | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | -2 | 1 |
| 11 | Zlate Moravce | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | -2 | 1 |
| 12 | Trencin | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | -4 | 1 |
