Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Riga & Tukums face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the Latvian Cup. All the pre-match information is available here!
Riga and Tukums should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.
This pitch has artifical turf, which is not Tukums's usual surface at their own ground. When playing on artifical turf Tukums have performed like this: Played 26 matches resulting in 14 wins, 2 draws and 10 defeats with the goal stats 56-47 (scored/conceded).
Riga form and stats
Riga participated in Latvian Cup the last season, where they reached the quarter-finals.This stadium has been a fortress for Riga in the Virsliga so far this season with the win-draw-loss statistic 8-0-1. Riga has won so many consecutive home games (six in a row) that they struggle to remember the last time points were lost here. We remember; it was Rīgas FS.
Happy days for Riga in their previous game, a Virsliga match away at Metta / LU that ended with a 1-0 victory.
A strong away win before that one, visiting Spartaks Jūrmala and winning 3-2.Riga are an "over 2,5 goals" team alone here in their league games, having scored an impressive 23 goals in 9 matches. Riga are not conceding a lot of goals here in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 7 from 9 matches.
Tukums form and stats
Tukums was sent out of Latvian Cup in the quarter-finals last season.As the visiting team in First Liga matches, Tukums have produced an overall stat of 1-0-0 so far.
It's the second away game in a row for Tukums, but there's smiles all around after the 2-0 victory versus Limbazi in the Latvian Cup last time out.
A home win before that, celebrating 2-1 vs JDFS Alberts.After this away game Tukums return home for a First Liga game against Grobina. That game is only one sleeps after this.
As for goals scored and conceded in the league games away so far, Tukums has managed 1 goal and let in 0 from 1 match.
Head 2 Head
As for the last four games between these two teams, there's four Riga victories, zero draws and zero Tukums wins. Over/under statistics; three of these games ended with three goals or more, one match with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  S. Milošević 11 goals | M. Soisalo 7 goals | J. Leo 5 goals |
Riga missing players
Tukums missing players
| Riga | Tukums | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 12 | Played | P | 13 | 25 | ||
| 16 | 10 | Won | W | 4 | 8 | ||
| 3 | 1 | Drew | D | 1 | 4 | ||
| 6 | 1 | Lost | L | 8 | 13 | ||
| 53 | 31 | Scored | S | 14 | 28 | ||
| 25 | 9 | Conceded | C | 29 | 47 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 92% | ||
| 80% | 83% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 85% | 84% | ||
| 56% | 67% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 54% | 52% | ||
| 32% | 33% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 38% | 36% | ||
| 24% | 25% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 31% | 24% | ||
| 48% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 38% | 40% | ||
| 36% | 42% | Clean Sheets | C S | 15% | 20% | ||
| 16% | 8% | Failed to Score | F T | 46% | 48% | ||
| 4.8 | 6.2 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.8 | 4.5 | ||
| 3 | 3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.8 | 5.9 | ||
| 2.2 | 2.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.6 | 1.6 | ||
| 2 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | ||
| 9.3 | 11.9 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10.2 | 10 | ||
| 4.5 | 6.2 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.2 | 3.9 | ||
| 51% | 52% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 26% | 26% | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Rīgas FS | 17 | 14 | 1 | 2 | 43 | 16 | 10 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 29 | 10 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 6 | 27 | 43 |
| 2 | Riga | 19 | 13 | 2 | 4 | 43 | 19 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 23 | 7 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 20 | 12 | 24 | 41 |
| 3 | Valmiera / BSS | 17 | 12 | 2 | 3 | 30 | 13 | 10 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 20 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 8 | 17 | 38 |
| 4 | FC Daugavpils / Progress | 19 | 9 | 3 | 7 | 32 | 27 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 17 | 11 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 15 | 16 | 5 | 30 |
| 5 | Liepāja | 15 | 8 | 1 | 6 | 24 | 17 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 15 | 10 | 7 | 25 |
| 6 | Spartaks Jūrmala | 20 | 6 | 0 | 14 | 28 | 35 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 16 | 15 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 12 | 20 | -7 | 18 |
| 7 | Metta / LU | 21 | 4 | 3 | 14 | 30 | 41 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 21 | 13 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 9 | 28 | -11 | 15 |
| 8 | Noah Jurmala | 18 | 1 | 0 | 17 | 9 | 71 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 34 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 7 | 37 | -62 | 3 |
| 9 | Ventspils | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Smiltene | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 7 |
| 2 | Auda | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 7 |
| 3 | Tukums | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 7 |
| 4 | Super Nova | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 7 | -3 | 6 |
| 5 | Albatroz | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 |
| 6 | Grobina | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 7 | Rēzekne / BJSS | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | -4 | 3 |
| 8 | Dinamo Riga | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -3 | 1 |
| 9 | JDFS Alberts | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | -4 | 1 |
| 10 | Saldus SS/Leevon | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | -7 | 0 |