Glory for the home side, the away team steals it or a score draw? It's all up in the air when the mid-table sides Liepāja and Metta / LU duel at Stadions Daugava.
- Liepāja haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Metta / LU have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
Metta / LU play their home fixtures on artifical turf, while this match is played on grass. Relevant statistics for Metta / LU when featuring on grass are 1 win, 2 draws and 12 defeats from 15 matches. They have managed to score {13 goals} and conceded 38 times on these occasions.
Liepāja form and stats
The overall Virsliga statistics at home this season for Liepāja are 3-2-5 (wins-draws-losses).
Liepāja's last game was hosting Super Nova (placed 10th) and winning 2-1.
Before that match, a win away at FC Daugavpils / Progress.Goal fest? We don't know the future, but we do know that 8 of the 10 most recent league matches with this club has had three goals or more.
There will be little rest for Liepāja after this match as they are travelling to Valmiera for a Virsliga game in only four days.
The goals haven't exactly been flowing for Liepāja here at Stadions Daugava in the league, with less than one goal per game on average (9 from 10 games). With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the Liepāja defense is not exactly impregnable. 18 goals conceded from 10 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.
Metta / LU form and stats
As the visiting team in Virsliga matches, Metta / LU have produced an overall stat of 3-3-3 so far.
Correa was the last player to score for the away team. Metta haven't scored a league goal in the last 214 minutes.
Home advantage was not enough for Metta / LU in their previous game as they lost hosting Rīgas FS, 0-6. As you can see from the result above, the defeat against Rīgas FS was particularly ugly (0-6). The humiliation is still top of mind.
Preceding that, the 0-2 home loss versus Riga.As mentioned above, the odds for this match puts the home team as favourites. Perhaps this eases the pressure on the away team, who are capable of producing an upset here on a good day. Looking at earlier matches with similar odds and Metta / LU playing away, we found 4 games. Results were 0 away wins, 0 draws and 4 home wins.
A new game in only four days for Metta / LU, the Virsliga home match versus Auda. Busy days.
Scoring goals is the main ingredient in creating success in football, and not only at home. So far Metta have scored 13 goals in 9 league games away. Metta / LU's defence is not exactly unbeatable as they have conceded 15 goals from these trips.
Head 2 Head
Liepāja have pulled off a sequence of 10 consecutive matches without losing (8-2-0) when playing Metta / LU.The most up to date logged history between these teams is the Liepāja - Metta / LU 1-1 played earlier this season.
Top Goalscorers
  L. Hilario Dodo 7 goals |  M. Correa 5 goals | A. Puzirevskis 4 goals |
Liepāja missing players
Metta / LU missing players
| Liepāja | Metta / LU | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 17 | 10 | 1 | Played | P | 1 | 9 | 17 |
| 8 | 3 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| 2 | 2 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| 7 | 5 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 3 | 7 |
| 26 | 9 | 1 | Scored | S | 1 | 13 | 23 |
| 25 | 18 | 1 | Conceded | C | 3 | 15 | 31 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 94% |
| 82% | 80% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 88% |
| 65% | 60% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 67% | 59% |
| 24% | 20% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 100% | 33% | 41% |
| 12% | 10% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 11% | 29% |
| 47% | 50% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 78% | 59% |
| 24% | 10% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 11% | 12% |
| 29% | 40% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 11% | 35% |
| 5.2 | 5.3 | 3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 9 | 5 | 4.4 |
| 5.7 | 5.9 | 3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 7 | 6.1 | 5.6 |
| 1.8 | 2 | 3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3 | 2.2 | 2.2 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 7.9 | 9 | 6 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11 | 10.6 | 9.6 |
| 2.1 | 2.8 | 3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3 | 3 | 3.5 |
| 72% | 32% | 33% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 33% | 48% | 39% |
| 8.9 | 10.2 | 17 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 24 | 12.2 | 11.8 |
| 3.2 | 4.1 | 6 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 8 | 3.6 | 3.6 |
- All of Metta / LU's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Liepāja haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Metta / LU have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Metta / LU haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
| 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 | 18 | 14 | 3 | 1 | 44 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 23 | 4 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 21 | 3 | 37 | 45 |
| 2 | Rīgas FS | 18 | 13 | 5 | 0 | 46 | 6 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 16 | 3 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 30 | 3 | 40 | 44 |
| 3 | Valmiera | 18 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 22 | 17 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 13 | 7 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 10 | 5 | 29 |
| 4 | Liepāja | 17 | 8 | 2 | 7 | 26 | 25 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 18 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 17 | 7 | 1 | 26 |
| 5 | Auda | 18 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 17 | 23 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 15 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 8 | -6 | 24 |
| 6 | Metta / LU | 17 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 23 | 31 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 16 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 13 | 15 | -8 | 22 |
| 7 | Tukums | 18 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 25 | 38 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 18 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 15 | 20 | -13 | 19 |
| 8 | FS Jelgava | 18 | 5 | 3 | 10 | 22 | 34 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 15 | 13 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 21 | -12 | 18 |
| 9 | FC Daugavpils / Progress | 18 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 24 | 30 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 15 | 17 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 9 | 13 | -6 | 14 |
| 10 | Super Nova | 18 | 2 | 1 | 15 | 15 | 53 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 27 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 7 | 26 | -38 | 7 |
