Liepāja fights Ventspils in Virsliga battle

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.

One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on grass and that the visiting Ventspils have a different surface at their stadium (artificial turf). The impact of this is hard to measure exactly, but the visitors stats on grass is 9-2-8 (win-draw-loss) from 19 matches.

Liepāja form and stats

When playing at home in the Virsliga, Liepāja have managed 4 wins, 2 draws and suffered 5 defeats from 11 games. It's trouble wherever Liepāja are playing these days as they have suffered six straight defeats now, regardless of arena. They really need to get back to winning ways. The season ticket holders are starting to dread their visits here at Stadions Daugava, with the home team losing four in a row. They have not avoided a defeat here since the Dinamo Minsk game.

The Liepāja fans got no joy from their last match, a Virsliga game also here at Stadions Daugava: A 1-2 defeat against Ventspils. Before that game, the home loss against Rīgas FS with the scoreline 1-2.

This is expected to be a close game, with Liepāja perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Liepāja as a small favourite), we find nine games. Liepāja has won 3 of these, drawn 1 and lost 5.

Liepāja has scored 15 league goals at home this season, in 11 matches. Liepāja's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 13 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

Ventspils form and stats

Ventspils have only collected 10 points from their away games in the Virsliga, after 3-1-6 (10 played).

It's the second away game in a row for Ventspils, but there's smiles all around after the 2-1 victory versus Liepāja in the Virsliga last time out. That result followed a home victory 3-0 versus Rīgas FS.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found seven similar matches played by Ventspils in our archives, and the results are: 3 wins for Ventspils, 1 draw and 3 defeats.

Ventspils are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 14 away goals from 10 games (in the league). Ventspils have conceded 21 goals in these games.

Head 2 Head

Liepāja and Ventspils have met before this season: Liepāja - Ventspils 1-2. Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: 1 - 4 - 5 (Liepāja wins - draws - Ventspils wins). As for goals, 3 matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), 7 had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

T. Aiyegun 10 goals

Dodo 5 goals

R. Friday 4 goals

Liepāja missing players

Ventspils missing players