It's early days in the First Liga and the teams are still hoping for a flying start in order to set the tone for the season. Three points can make a big difference at this stage.
Both teams have had enough rest since their last competitive action. Let's hope for an energetic game!
This stadium uses grass, unlike Balvu's home stadium. The visitors last four games on grass have ended in 2 wins, 0 draws and 2 losses.
Grobiņa form and stats
In their previous game, the manager V. Dobrecovs led his Grobiņa to a defeat in the First Liga match away at Auda. The manager is hoping to put things right immediately here at Stadions Daugava mākslīgas laukums. In the game before, an away victory match versus JDFS Alberts with a 2-1 scoreline.
Balvu form and stats
Balvu have played one away game so far, a loss. Last season their away games stats were 2 victories, 1 draw and 8 defeats from eleven fixtures.This game can not go any worse than the last one, a First Liga home defeat versus JDFS Alberts with 1-3 on the scoreboard. A 0-11 defeat away at Tukums before that.
It's early days yet, but Balvu has scored 0 and conceded 11 goals from their travels so far (1 game).
Head 2 Head
As for the last two games between these two teams, there's 1 Grobiņa victory, 1 draw and 0 Balvu wins.Grobiņa missing players
Balvu missing players
| Grobiņa | Balvu | |||
| Total | Home | Statistic | Away | Total |
| 2 | 0 | Played | 1 | 2 |
| 3 | 0 | Scored | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | 0 | Conceded | 11 | 14 |
| 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | 100% | 100% |
| 100% | 0% | Over 1.5 | 100% | 100% |
| 100% | 0% | Over 2.5 | 100% | 100% |
| 50% | 0% | Over 3.5 | 100% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | 100% | 50% |
| 100% | 0% | Both teams to score | 0% | 50% |
| 0% | 0% | Clean Sheet | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | Failed To Score | 100% | 50% |
| 0 | 0 | Corners For (avg) | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | Corners Against (avg) | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | Yellow Cards (avg) | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | Red Cards (total) | 0 | 0 |
| Grobiņa | Last season | Balvu | ||
| Total | Home | Statistic | Away | Total |
| 22 | 11 | Played | 11 | 22 |
| 40 | 25 | Scored | 12 | 19 |
| 75 | 38 | Conceded | 61 | 115 |
| 95% | 100% | Over 0.5 | 100% | 95% |
| 95% | 100% | Over 1.5 | 91% | 86% |
| 82% | 82% | Over 2.5 | 82% | 73% |
| 68% | 73% | Over 3.5 | 82% | 68% |
| 59% | 73% | Over 4.5 | 82% | 64% |
| 64% | 64% | Both teams to score | 73% | 59% |
| 5% | 0% | Clean Sheet | 9% | 14% |
| 36% | 36% | Failed To Score | 18% | 32% |
| 2.3 | 3.6 | Corners For (avg) | 0.2 | 0.8 |
| 1.6 | 2.2 | Corners Against (avg) | 0.9 | 2 |
| 0.5 | 0.8 | Yellow Cards (avg) | 0.1 | 0.2 |
| 0 | 0 | Red Cards (total) | 0 | 0 |
- Grobiņa hasn't played a single 0-0 game at home.
- Balvu is involved in more matches over 2.5 away, than home.
- Grobiņa has failed to keep a clean sheet in 11 home matches.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | D | P |
| 1 | Tukums | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 6 |
| 2 | Super Nova | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| 3 | Smiltene | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| 4 | Auda | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 5 | JDFS Alberts | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 6 | Rēzekne / BJSS | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 7 | Grobiņa | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | -1 | 3 |
| 8 | New Project | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -2 | 0 |
| 9 | Dinamo Rīga / Staicele | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | -4 | 0 |
| 10 | Balvu | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 11 | -13 | 0 |
