WC Qualification Europe: Group Stage: Latvia travels to Turkey for this exciting encounter
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.
These teams have little in common geographically as Latvia have to travel 2800 kilometers to reach their opponents. The trip home will be especially long if the match ends in defeat.
Turkey form and stats
Turkey was eliminated in the 1st round last season in the WC Qualification Europe.The story so far in the league for Turkey at their home stadium (Atatürk Olimpiyat Stadı) is 1 win, 0 draws and 0 defeats.
It would be a shock if the hosts fail to win this game. Let's see how Turkey have performed as huge favourites like they are today: 24 games found in the database showing 13 Turkey wins, four draws and seven defeats.
Latvia form and stats
Last season their WC Qualification Europe adventure ended in the 1st round.The visitors are W0-D0-L1 on the road this term. That's in the league.
Latvia goalkeeper Roberts Ozols had a great day against Netherlands, but despite making eight saves the loss could not be avoided.
Latvia are huge outsiders in this game. Running a check in our games database we found 32 matches where they were as big outsiders as an away team. Results were four wins, nine draws and 19 defeats. Of the defeats, twelve games were lost by at least two goals margin.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last three matches): Turkey zero wins, three draws and Latvia zero victories. As for goals, one match ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), two games had two or less.Turkey missing players
Latvia missing players
| Turkey | Latvia | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 14 | Played | P | 14 | 25 | ||
| 12 | 8 | Won | W | 2 | 3 | ||
| 8 | 4 | Drew | D | 5 | 8 | ||
| 5 | 2 | Lost | L | 7 | 14 | ||
| 41 | 24 | Scored | S | 14 | 18 | ||
| 23 | 12 | Conceded | C | 22 | 43 | ||
| 88% | 86% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 93% | 92% | ||
| 72% | 57% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 79% | 76% | ||
| 40% | 43% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 36% | 40% | ||
| 28% | 36% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 29% | 20% | ||
| 16% | 21% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 14% | 12% | ||
| 36% | 36% | BTTS | BTTS | 43% | 36% | ||
| 48% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 21% | 20% | ||
| 28% | 29% | Failed to Score | F T | 43% | 52% | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | ||
| 2.1 | 2.2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.9 | 2.6 | ||
| 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 2 | 3 | ||
| 12.7 | 14.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 8 | 8.9 | ||
| 5.3 | 6.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.1 | 3.1 | ||
| 32% | 28% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 32% | 23% | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Turkey | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 6 |
| 2 | Montenegro | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 6 |
| 3 | Netherlands | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 3 |
| 4 | Norway | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 5 | Latvia | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | -3 | 0 |
| 6 | Gibraltar | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | -6 | 0 |