Season ticket holders at Stadions Celtnieks haven’t seen too many victories this season, with FC Daugavpils / Progress languishing in the 8th position so far. The guesting Jelgava will be hopeful to defend their higher league position in this one.
It's no vacation for neither Daugavpils nor Jelgava as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.
FC Daugavpils / Progress form and stats
Overall Virsliga stats at home this season for FC Daugavpils / Progress are 2-0-3 (wins-draw-losses).
The home team returns to Stadions Celtnieks after being equal after 90 minutes with Liepāja (placed 7th) on their last time out; the Virsliga game ended 1-1. Before that game, the home loss against Spartaks Jūrmala with the scoreline 0-2.
There's a new fixture coming up fairly quickly for FC Daugavpils / Progress, as the Virsliga home game vs Tukums is only four days away.
A decent goal production from Daugavpils in their home games so far, with 9 goals from 5 league matches. Goals are flowing in at the wrong end for Daugavpils with 10 goals conceded in these matches.
Jelgava form and stats
The visitors are W1-D0-L3 on the road this term. That's in the Virsliga. Three consecutive losses in away matches means Jelgava are growing more and more desperate for a good performance on the road.
Jelgava won their last game, 2-1 versus Tukums played at home. A 1-5 loss hosting Liepāja before that.
As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found two similar matches played by Jelgava in our archives, and the results are: one win for Jelgava, one draw and zero defeats.
The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Metta / LU in just four days.
The attacking power of Jelgava when travelling is not overwhelming with 3 goals scored from 4 league matches away. Jelgava struggle to build an impenetrable defensive wall in away matches with a total of 7 goals conceded from these games.
Head 2 Head
Jelgava - Daugavpils 1-0 was the story when these teams last met, earlier this season. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Daugavpils one win, two draws and Jelgava seven victories. As for goals, three matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), seven games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  Y. Zakharkiv 5 goals |   A. Kovaļovs 3 goals | V. Afanasjevs 2 goals |
FC Daugavpils / Progress missing players
Jelgava missing players
| FC Daugavpils / Progress | Jelgava | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 10 | 5 | 1 | Played | P | 2 | 4 | 10 |
| 3 | 2 | 1 | Won | W | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 6 | 3 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| 17 | 9 | 3 | Scored | S | 2 | 3 | 9 |
| 18 | 10 | 1 | Conceded | C | 2 | 7 | 18 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 90% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 50% | 60% |
| 60% | 60% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 50% | 60% |
| 50% | 60% | 100% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 25% | 20% |
| 30% | 40% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 25% | 20% |
| 50% | 60% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 50% | 50% |
| 10% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 20% |
| 40% | 40% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 50% | 30% |
| 4.3 | 3.2 | 5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.5 | 4.5 | 4.4 |
| 6 | 7.2 | 13 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 2.5 | 3.2 | 5 |
| 2.5 | 3 | 4 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 2.2 | 2.7 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 91 | 48 | 12 | Total Shots | T S | 25 | 39 | 84 |
| 36 | 20 | 4 | Shots on Target | S O | 13 | 19 | 46 |
| 47% | 45% | 75% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 15% | 16% | 20% |
- All of FC Daugavpils / Progress's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- FC Daugavpils / Progress have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won at home.
- FC Daugavpils / Progress have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their home matches.
- FC Daugavpils / Progress have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Jelgava have scored away.
- FC Daugavpils / Progress have won significantly less corners at home than away.
- FC Daugavpils / Progress haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Jelgava has the fewest scored goals (3) away
- Jelgava have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
- Jelgava have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
- Jelgava haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Riga | 10 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 22 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 4 | 17 | 27 |
| 2 | Rigas FS | 10 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 25 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 18 | 7 | 15 | 24 |
| 3 | Spartaks Jūrmala | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 17 | 13 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 17 |
| 4 | Valmiera / BSS | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 14 | 14 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 15 |
| 5 | Ventspils | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 14 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 14 |
| 6 | Jelgava | 10 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 9 | 18 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 7 | -9 | 12 |
| 7 | Liepāja | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 16 | 14 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 11 |
| 8 | FC Daugavpils / Progress | 10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 17 | 18 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 8 | -1 | 10 |
| 9 | Metta / LU | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 17 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 12 | -8 | 8 |
| 10 | Tukums | 10 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 29 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 19 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 10 | -22 | 2 |