FC Daugavpils / Progress will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 21 points behind Riga.
There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.
FC Daugavpils / Progress form and stats
2 victories, 2 draws and 3 defeats. That’s what FC Daugavpils / Progress have to build on here at Stadions Celtnieks in the Virsliga. Daugavpils have played two draws in a row on their own stadium.
A strong away win for Daugavpils against Metta / LU the last match, as K. Makeev, D. Idowu, A. Kovaļovs and M. Regža were on target. The spoils were shared after 90 minutes before that, a home game that ended 1-1 versus Tukums.
Daugavpils are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 10 goals in 7 games. Daugavpils have conceded 11 from these games.
Riga form and stats
Rock solid. That's the only way to describe the travels of Riga so far, with 5-0-1 (wins-draws-losses) so far. Those are Virsliga statistics. In general it has been a productive period now for Riga as they haven't lost any of their last eleven games. Riga has been amazing away for a time now, winning five in a row on their travels. The last time they went home with a point loss was against Spartaks Jurmala.
Impressive finishing from K. Mbombo, S. Panić and Stênio Júnior secured the home win 3-0 against Jelgava in their previous game. Preceding that game was the away victory against Liepaja with the score of 4-1.
The schedule is very tough for Riga now as they have to travel again shortly after this match. A Virsliga game at Metta / LU is waiting in only four days.
Riga are a potent attacking force on the road with their 16 goals in 6 league games. Riga are defending well in their away games, having conceded only 5 times in 6 matches. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.
Head 2 Head
These teams' last encounter with each other was the Riga - Daugavpils 3-1 earlier this season. FC Daugavpils / Progress-Riga H2H statistics last five meetings regardless of arena: FC Daugavpils / Progress zero wins, Riga five wins, zero draws. three of these five matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).Top Goalscorers
  K. Mbombo 7 goals |   A. Kovaļovs 4 goals | R. Debelko 4 goals |
FC Daugavpils / Progress missing players
Riga missing players
| FC Daugavpils / Progress | Riga | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 13 | 7 | 1 | Played | P | 1 | 6 | 13 |
| 4 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 5 | 12 |
| 3 | 2 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 6 | 3 | 1 | Lost | L | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 22 | 10 | 2 | Scored | S | 1 | 16 | 33 |
| 20 | 11 | 3 | Conceded | C | 2 | 5 | 8 |
| 92% | 86% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 85% | 86% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 83% | 85% |
| 54% | 43% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 83% | 62% |
| 46% | 43% | 100% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 33% | 31% |
| 31% | 29% | 100% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 33% | 23% |
| 54% | 57% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 67% | 46% |
| 15% | 14% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 33% | 54% |
| 38% | 43% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 4.5 | 3.9 | 2 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4 | 4 | 5.2 |
| 5.4 | 6 | 6 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5 | 3.8 | 4.2 |
| 2.3 | 2.7 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 4 | 2.8 | 2.3 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 130 | 73 | 8 | Total Shots | T S | 16 | 68 | 159 |
| 51 | 28 | 2 | Shots on Target | S O | 5 | 32 | 76 |
| 43% | 36% | 100% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 20% | 50% | 43% |
- Riga has the fewest conceded goals (5) away
- Riga has the fewest conceded goals (8)
- Riga has the most clean sheets (7)
- Riga has the most scored goals (33)
- Riga has the most scored goals in the second half (23)
- Riga has the the best goal difference (+25)
- Riga have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Riga have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Riga have scored in all their matches so far.
- Riga have won significantly less corners away then at home.
- Riga haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Riga is in the best form (6-0-0)
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Riga | 13 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 33 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 16 | 5 | 25 | 36 |
| 2 | Rigas FS | 12 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 31 | 13 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 19 | 8 | 18 | 28 |
| 3 | Valmiera / BSS | 13 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 22 | 21 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 14 | 1 | 21 |
| 4 | Spartaks Jurmala | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 20 | 18 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 11 | 2 | 18 |
| 5 | FC Daugavpils / Progress | 13 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 22 | 20 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 12 | 9 | 2 | 15 |
| 6 | Ventspils | 12 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 14 | 15 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 10 | -1 | 15 |
| 7 | Jelgava | 13 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 11 | 23 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 13 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 10 | -12 | 14 |
| 8 | Metta / LU | 13 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 14 | 24 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 14 | -10 | 12 |
| 9 | Liepaja | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 18 | 20 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 7 | -2 | 11 |
| 10 | Tukums | 13 | 0 | 4 | 9 | 10 | 33 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 22 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 11 | -23 | 4 |