Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Rīgas FS & Liepāja face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the Latvian Cup. All the pre-match information is available here!
Rīgas FS and Liepāja 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.
Liepāja play their home fixtures on grass, while this game occurs on artifical turf. Relevant stats for Liepāja when playing on artifical turf are 11 wins, 3 draws and 8 defeats from 22 matches. They have managed to score 34 goals and conceded 25 times in these games.
Rīgas FS form and stats
Rīgas was eliminated in the semi-finals last season in the Latvian Cup.The home supporters can't complain about results here at J. Daliņa stadions as Rīgas FS have scored 34 goals to get 31 points from 13 games. The overall stats in the Virsliga are 10-1-2 (wins-draws-losses). On the other hand, in the Latvian Cup, Rīgas FS has performed like this (both home and away): 3 wins, 0 draws and 0 losses. Rīgas has a nice streak going on as they have played ten consecutive leaguegames without losing (regardless of home/away). They are keen to extend their tally, a streak that began after the Valmiera / BSS defeat 120 days ago.
It's back home for Rīgas, who return with a good feeling about themselves after beating Metta / LU away with the result 5-2. K. Friesenbichler, A. Ilić and Emerson Deocleciano (3) found the net in that victory. A goal frenzy last time out for Rīgas, with a total of 7 goals in the match against Metta / LU. Fun stuff to watch! Emerson Deocleciano was absolutely essential when Rīgas beat Metta / LU 5-2, scoring three goals.
The spoils were shared after 90 minutes before that, a Virsliga home game that ended 1-1 versus Spartaks Jurmala.The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Rīgas FS have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found six games) they have won five times, drawn zero and lost one.
The manager V. Morozs will start preparations for the next game as soon this is finished, as the hosts are going to FC Daugavpils / Progress in only three days.
Goals are plentiful at J. Daliņa stadions in the league this season as Rīgas has scored 34 goals here in 13 home games. From these home matches, Rīgas FS have conceded only 12 goals.
Liepāja form and stats
Nothing but glory last season for Liepāja, as they won the Latvian Cup.The story so far for the visiting team on their Virsliga travels is 7 wins, 1 draw and 5 defeats. The mentioned statistics is only from the league, looking at the Latvian Cup stats, they have 3 wins, 0 draws and 0 losses both home and away.
Did you know that the longest clean sheet streak is 1816 minutes? This record is held by Mazaropi when he played in Vasco da Gama. Liepāja goalkeeper Krisjanis Zviedris is eager to challenge this, with his 206 minutes of keeping balls out from the net.
Liepāja won their last game, 3-0 versus Noah Jurmala played at home.
That result followed a home victory 3-0 versus Noah Jurmala in the Virsliga.We have checked recent matches where Liepāja have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those four games were one victory, zero draws and three defeats.
Liepāja has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches in the league this season, 21 goals from 13 games. As opposed to that, Liepāja have seen the ball go into their own net 14 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
Head to head data (for the former ten meetings): Rīgas FS won six games, two matches ended with a tie and Liepāja got two wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: eight / twoTop Goalscorers
  E. Santana Deocleciano 8 goals |  Ž. Lipušček 6 goals |  T. Šimkovič 5 goals |
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| Rīgas FS | Liepāja | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 15 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 17 | 11 | Won | W | 7 | 15 | ||
| 5 | 1 | Drew | D | 2 | 6 | ||
| 3 | 3 | Lost | L | 3 | 4 | ||
| 59 | 36 | Scored | S | 23 | 43 | ||
| 22 | 12 | Conceded | C | 7 | 12 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 92% | 88% | ||
| 92% | 87% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 67% | 68% | ||
| 64% | 73% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 58% | 48% | ||
| 36% | 40% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 17% | 8% | ||
| 20% | 20% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 17% | 8% | ||
| 60% | 53% | BTTS | BTTS | 33% | 32% | ||
| 36% | 40% | Clean Sheets | C S | 50% | 60% | ||
| 4% | 7% | Failed to Score | F T | 25% | 20% | ||
| 6.2 | 6.4 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.4 | 5 | ||
| 4.5 | 3.7 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 2.8 | 3.4 | ||
| 2.2 | 2.4 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.3 | 2.5 | ||
| 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 2 | ||
| 11.3 | 12.7 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10.2 | 10 | ||
| 5.3 | 5.9 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.8 | 4 | ||
| 40% | 38% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 42% | 38% | ||
| 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 | 25 | 18 | 5 | 2 | 60 | 22 | 13 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 34 | 12 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 26 | 10 | 38 | 59 |
| 2 | Valmiera / BSS | 25 | 18 | 3 | 4 | 52 | 18 | 12 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 22 | 6 | 13 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 30 | 12 | 34 | 57 |
| 3 | Riga | 25 | 14 | 5 | 6 | 53 | 25 | 13 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 32 | 11 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 21 | 14 | 28 | 47 |
| 4 | Liepāja | 26 | 14 | 3 | 9 | 43 | 25 | 13 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 22 | 11 | 13 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 21 | 14 | 18 | 45 |
| 5 | Spartaks Jurmala | 27 | 11 | 2 | 14 | 40 | 40 | 13 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 22 | 15 | 14 | 4 | 1 | 9 | 18 | 25 | 0 | 35 |
| 6 | FC Daugavpils / Progress | 25 | 9 | 5 | 11 | 36 | 45 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 22 | 16 | 13 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 14 | 29 | -9 | 32 |
| 7 | Metta / LU | 27 | 5 | 5 | 17 | 33 | 54 | 14 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 21 | 27 | 13 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 12 | 27 | -21 | 20 |
| 8 | Noah Jurmala | 28 | 1 | 0 | 27 | 8 | 96 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 1 | 51 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 7 | 45 | -88 | 3 |
| 9 | Ventspils | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |