National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Super Nova or Tukums that keep their silverware dream alive.
Super's stadium, Salaspils sporta nama stadions, has a artifical turf surface. Tukums have grass on their own stadium. This might or might not make a difference, and to help evaluate that we give you the recent performance numbers for Tukums when playing on artifical turf; 3 wins, 3 draws and 4 losses from ten matches. They have scored 18 goals in these games and conceded 16.
Super Nova 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.
Super Nova form and stats
Super Nova was eliminated in the play-off round last season in the Latvian Cup.The home fans haven’t been spoiled with victories in the Virsliga this season. Super Nova have only managed 0 wins, 2 draws and 8 losses from their games here at Salaspils sporta nama stadions.
Super Nova suffered a surprising loss 1-2 against Auda in their previous match, also played at home.
A Virsliga defeat was the result before that one, 0-2 away at Liepaja.The lack of attacking qualities in Super Nova means that they have only scored 4 goals in 10 league home games, less than half a goal per match. Super are struggling defensively, conceding on average more than two goals per home game (22 from 10 played).
Tukums form and stats
They also participated in Latvian Cup last season. This ended in the 8th finals.The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Tukums so far with only 9 points returning home. The records show 3-0-6 (win-draw-lose).
Impressive finishing secured the home win 2-0 against Metta / LU in their previous game.
A 0-1 loss hosting FC Daugavpils / Progress before that.A new game in only four days for Tukums, the Virsliga home match versus Spartaks Jūrmala. Busy days.
As for defending, Tukums rarely keep clean sheets as they have conceded 15 goals from these away matches.
Head 2 Head
Numbers for the former nine meetings involving these two sides are: four wins for Super Nova, two draws and three wins for Tukums. Over 2,5 goals: four times; under 2,5 goals: five games.Top Goalscorers
  M. Kruglaužs 4 goals |  J. Miņins 2 goals | R. Rullis 2 goals |
Super Nova missing players
Tukums missing players
| Super Nova | Tukums | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 14 | Played | P | 14 | 25 | ||
| 2 | 1 | Won | W | 6 | 8 | ||
| 7 | 4 | Drew | D | 2 | 5 | ||
| 16 | 9 | Lost | L | 6 | 12 | ||
| 15 | 8 | Scored | S | 22 | 30 | ||
| 45 | 27 | Conceded | C | 19 | 43 | ||
| 84% | 79% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 96% | ||
| 68% | 64% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 71% | 68% | ||
| 44% | 57% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 64% | 56% | ||
| 28% | 29% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 29% | 28% | ||
| 12% | 14% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 14% | 16% | ||
| 40% | 36% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 44% | ||
| 20% | 29% | Clean Sheets | C S | 21% | 20% | ||
| 56% | 57% | Failed to Score | F T | 29% | 40% | ||
| 3.6 | 3.2 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.5 | 3.6 | ||
| 9.8 | 8.7 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6.7 | 7.7 | ||
| 2.6 | 2.2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.6 | 1.9 | ||
| 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 6.7 | 7.2 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 9.2 | 8.3 | ||
| 2.3 | 2.1 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4 | 3.7 | ||
| 21% | 16% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 40% | 33% | ||
| 13.1 | 15.5 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 13.3 | 14.1 | ||
| 5.3 | 6.3 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.9 | 5.4 | ||
| 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 / BSS | 20 | 16 | 2 | 2 | 48 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 23 | 4 | 10 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 25 | 6 | 38 | 50 |
| 2 | Rīgas FS | 20 | 14 | 3 | 3 | 50 | 19 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 23 | 7 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 27 | 12 | 31 | 45 |
| 3 | Riga | 20 | 13 | 2 | 5 | 32 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 17 | 4 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 15 | 8 | 20 | 41 |
| 4 | Liepaja | 20 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 40 | 20 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 17 | 11 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 23 | 9 | 20 | 40 |
| 5 | Auda | 20 | 10 | 3 | 7 | 28 | 19 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 17 | 10 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 9 | 9 | 33 |
| 6 | FC Daugavpils / Progress | 20 | 7 | 3 | 10 | 15 | 33 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 11 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 22 | -18 | 24 |
| 7 | Tukums | 19 | 5 | 2 | 12 | 17 | 39 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 24 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 9 | 15 | -22 | 17 |
| 8 | Spartaks Jūrmala | 19 | 4 | 2 | 13 | 16 | 39 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 10 | 20 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 19 | -23 | 14 |
| 9 | Metta / LU | 20 | 3 | 4 | 13 | 20 | 44 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 11 | 22 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 22 | -24 | 13 |
| 10 | Super Nova | 20 | 0 | 5 | 15 | 8 | 39 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 22 | 10 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 17 | -31 | 5 |
