The Virsliga match summary, better known as a league table, tells a story about these sides to this date, with Riga ahead of FC Daugavpils by 33 points. Match preview to follow:
- Riga have the most scored goals (59) in Virsliga
- FC Daugavpils have the most dropped points from leading position (16) in Virsliga
The hosts Riga saw competitive action as recent as three days ago, playing in the Europa Conference League. At least it's nice to return home after that away game at Kecskemeti TE.
Riga form and stats
9-2-0 is the performance here at Stadions Skonto so far in the Virsliga, giving Riga a total of 29 from their 11 games here. Outstanding results! Riga has recorded two wins in a row here at Stadions Skonto, increasing their hopes of victory in this match.
The Riga goalkeeper Nils Toms Purins is looking to record 90 more "clean sheet" minutes as his team have now played 210 minutes without conceding a goal in the Virsliga.
The fans hope that Riga will strike back in this fixture, putting things right after the 1-2 away defeat in the Europa Conference League fixture against Kecskemeti TE. Defender Muzinga got the top score of the team in the match with a rating of 7.42/10. Muzinga served one assist, hit four key passes and won 8 of 19 duels.
A strong away win before that one, visiting Tukums and winning 6-0.Everyone expects Riga to win this match. We have checked our database for matches where they have been as big a favourite and found 21 games: 21 home wins, 0 draws and 0 defeats. Riga have won with at least two goals margin 12 times in similar situations.
Another home game is coming up fairly shortly for the hosts, as Kecskemeti TE are coming to town in four days.
Goals are plentiful at Stadions Skonto in the league this season as Riga has scored 29 goals here in 11 home games. Riga have only conceded 7 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
FC Daugavpils form and stats
FC Daugavpils have only collected 8 points from their away games in the Virsliga, after 2-2-7 (11 played).
The FC Daugavpils goalkeeper Vladislavs Kurakins is collecting clean sheets like a laundry worker. It's been 297 league minutes without conceding a goal, and counting.
It's the second away game in a row for FC Daugavpils, but there's smiles all around after the 1-0 victory versus Valmiera / BSS (placed 3rd) last time out.
The game earlier was the Latvian Cup-duel against Auda (after extra-time), a home loss (1-4). Nobody expects Daugavpils to collect anything from a game like this. The team has been David versus Goliath 10 times before, with the overall statistics of won 2, draw 0 and lost 8. When defeated, 7 matches have been lost by two or more goals.
The attacking power of FC Daugavpils when travelling is not overwhelming with 10 goals scored from 11 league matches away. FC Daugavpils have conceded 13 goals in these away matches. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 1 of these goals has been conceded in their last three away matches.
Head 2 Head
Riga have pulled off a sequence of 6 consecutive matches without defeat (4-2-0) when playing FC Daugavpils.The teams involved met each other earlier on this campaign: Riga - FC Daugavpils 1-0.
Top Goalscorers
  M. Regža 12 goals |  D. Aurélio 8 goals |   V. Lizunovs 8 goals |
Riga missing players
FC Daugavpils missing players
| Riga | FC Daugavpils | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 23 | 11 | 3 | Played | P | 3 | 11 | 23 |
| 18 | 9 | 3 | Won | W | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| 4 | 2 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 2 | 7 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 2 | 7 | 10 |
| 59 | 29 | 12 | Scored | S | 2 | 10 | 31 |
| 11 | 7 | 3 | Conceded | C | 4 | 13 | 32 |
| 96% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 91% | 96% |
| 83% | 82% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 33% | 45% | 74% |
| 57% | 64% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 33% | 36% | 43% |
| 43% | 45% | 67% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 33% | 27% | 30% |
| 13% | 18% | 67% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 9% | 17% |
| 39% | 55% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 33% | 36% | 52% |
| 57% | 45% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 33% | 27% | 22% |
| 9% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 33% | 45% | 30% |
| 9.6 | 8.6 | 10 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.3 | 3.7 | 4.7 |
| 3 | 2.1 | 1.3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 8.7 | 5.9 | 5.7 |
| 1.6 | 1.5 | 1.7 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.3 | 2.3 | 2.2 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 15.5 | 15.9 | 18.3 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 7.7 | 7.9 | 7.5 |
| 5.8 | 6.3 | 8.7 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3 | 2.7 | 2.6 |
| 44% | 42% | 46% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 22% | 33% | 53% |
| 5.5 | 5.5 | 3.7 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 18.3 | 12.1 | 10.1 |
| 2 | 2.2 | 1.3 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 6 | 4.5 | 3.6 |
- FC Daugavpils have the most dropped points from leading position (16) in Virsliga
- FC Daugavpils have won significantly less corners away then at home.
- Riga have created more than twice as many corners as FC Daugavpils.
- Riga have not yet lost a game at home.
- Riga have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Riga have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Riga have scored at least twice as many goals at home as FC Daugavpils have scored away.
- Riga have scored in all their home matches so far.
- Riga have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (5) in Virsliga
- Riga have the fewest dropped points from leading position (0) in Virsliga
- Riga have the most points (29) at home in Virsliga
- Riga have the most scored goals (29) at home in Virsliga
- Riga have the most scored goals (59) in Virsliga
- Riga have the most scored goals in the first half (28) in Virsliga
- Riga have the the best goal difference (+22) at home in Virsliga
- Riga have the the best goal difference (+48) in Virsliga
- Riga have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
- Riga haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
| 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 | 23 | 18 | 4 | 1 | 59 | 11 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 29 | 7 | 12 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 30 | 4 | 48 | 58 |
| 2 | Rigas FS | 23 | 16 | 7 | 0 | 58 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 20 | 3 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 38 | 8 | 47 | 55 |
| 3 | Valmiera / BSS | 23 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 29 | 22 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 20 | 9 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 13 | 7 | 34 |
| 4 | Liepāja | 23 | 9 | 5 | 9 | 35 | 36 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 13 | 21 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 22 | 15 | -1 | 32 |
| 5 | Auda | 23 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 25 | 29 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 20 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 16 | 9 | -4 | 31 |
| 6 | Metta / LU | 23 | 7 | 7 | 9 | 30 | 38 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 11 | 18 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 19 | 20 | -8 | 28 |
| 7 | FC Daugavpils | 23 | 6 | 7 | 10 | 31 | 32 | 12 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 21 | 19 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 13 | -1 | 25 |
| 8 | FS Jelgava | 23 | 6 | 5 | 12 | 29 | 43 | 13 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 21 | 20 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 23 | -14 | 23 |
| 9 | Tukums | 23 | 6 | 5 | 12 | 32 | 56 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 11 | 25 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 21 | 31 | -24 | 23 |
| 10 | Super Nova | 23 | 2 | 2 | 19 | 20 | 70 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 11 | 40 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 9 | 30 | -50 | 8 |
