The visiting Ventspils side should be favourites in this visit to FC Daugavpils / Progress, as the away team holds a 4 point advantage from their six league games this season.
The visiting Ventspils played their last game only four days ago, a Virsliga match. That game, against Jelgava, was also an away game. It's a tiring schedule for Ventspils.
FC Daugavpils / Progress form and stats
FC Daugavpils / Progress have played three Virsliga home games so far, perhaps enough to set expectations for the season. In that case, only 3 points from these matches could be a signal of rough times ahead.
The Daugavpils crowd went home unhappy last time out, seeing their beloved players lose 2-3 to Rigas FS here at Stadions Celtnieks in a Virsliga match. Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Riga (1-3).
A disaster for the home team in their last match (vs Rigas FS) as a comfortable lead 2-0 was completely ruined into a loss 2-3.
Daugavpils are traveling soon after this match as the Virsliga match at Valmiera / BSS awaits in four days.
With an average of more than two goals per home game in the league (6 in 3 games), FC Daugavpils / Progress's attacking play is working. Goals are flowing in at the wrong end for Daugavpils with 7 goals conceded in these matches.
Ventspils form and stats
Ventspils are doing rather OK so far in their away games in the Virsliga, having played 3 games and collected 3 points (1 win, 0 draws and 2 losses).
Ventspils are travelling again after losing away to Jelgava in their previous match (0-1). A home win before that, celebrating 2-1 vs Liepaja.
A quick return to home after this game, as Ventspils are hosting Metta / LU in the Virsliga only four days away.
Ventspils are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 3 away goals from 3 games (in the league). 3 goals have been conceded by Ventspils in these games.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last eight matches): Daugavpils one win, two draws and Ventspils five victories. As for goals, three matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  C. Nnamdi 4 goals |  E. Kozlov 3 goals | K. Svarups 3 goals |
FC Daugavpils / Progress missing players
Ventspils missing players
| FC Daugavpils / Progress | Ventspils | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 6 | 3 | 1 | Played | P | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | 2 | 1 | Lost | L | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 13 | 6 | 2 | Scored | S | 0 | 3 | 10 |
| 11 | 7 | 3 | Conceded | C | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 83% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 33% | 67% |
| 67% | 67% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 33% | 67% |
| 67% | 67% | 100% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 33% | 33% |
| 50% | 67% | 100% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 50% | 67% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 33% | 50% |
| 17% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 17% |
| 33% | 33% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 67% | 33% |
| 3.5 | 2.3 | 2 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 9.7 | 8.5 |
| 5.2 | 6.3 | 6 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 6 | 4.7 |
| 2.3 | 2.7 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 3.7 | 2.8 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 58 | 30 | 8 | Total Shots | T S | 0 | 35 | 80 |
| 24 | 14 | 2 | Shots on Target | S O | 0 | 13 | 30 |
| 54% | 43% | 100% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 23% | 33% |
- 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 won significantly less corners at home than away.
- FC Daugavpils / Progress haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Ventspils have created more than twice as many corners as FC Daugavpils / Progress.
- Ventspils 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 | Rigas FS | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 4 | 13 | 18 |
| 2 | Riga | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 15 |
| 3 | Ventspils | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 10 |
| 4 | Jelgava | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | -2 | 9 |
| 5 | Spartaks Jurmala | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 7 | -3 | 8 |
| 6 | Valmiera / BSS | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | -3 | 8 |
| 7 | FC Daugavpils / Progress | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 13 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| 8 | Liepaja | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | -2 | 6 |
| 9 | Metta / LU | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 10 | -5 | 6 |
| 10 | Tukums | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 17 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | -14 | 1 |