It's advantage Riga so far with their 1st position in the Virsliga table, welcoming Jelgava who are placed 6th.
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.
Riga form and stats
Home games in the Virsliga have been a walk in the park for Riga so far, with 18 points won from 6 matches; 6 wins, 0 draws and 0 losses. Riga haven’t lost a league-game in ten attempts regardless of arena, a great achievement. Their last loss was the fixture versus Spartaks Jurmala, 47 days ago.
Riga enjoyed a nice away win last time out, playing at Liepaja's place. The match ended 4-1 with E. Stuglis, V. Fjodorovs and S. Panić scoring. Previous to that game, a home match hosting Spartaks Jurmala in a game that was won 4-2.
There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Riga as they are travelling to their away game against FC Daugavpils / Progress in the Virsliga. That match is four days after this one.
Riga can score goals in their home matches. After 6 league matches they have found the net 14 times. Riga have showed great defending skills in these home games, allowing the opposition to score only 3 goals.
Jelgava form and stats
The story so far for the visiting team on their Virsliga travels is 1 win, 1 draw and 3 defeats.
Jelgava's last game ended in a draw, the home match versus Metta / LU that finished 2-2. Before that, Jelgava travelled to FC Daugavpils / Progress and returned home with a draw after the game finished 0-0.
With the home team given a winning probability of about 80% by the bookmakers, any positive result for the visitors would be a surprise. Checking earlier matches with similar odds with Jelgava as the away team, we found two results. Statistics from these were one away win, zero draws and one defeat. The outsiders lost zero of these games by at least two goals.
Many goals are not expected from the visiting Jelgava as they have only managed to score 3 times from 5 away games in the league. Jelgava have conceded 7 goals in these away matches.
Head 2 Head
The two sides played each other earlier this season: Jelgava - Riga 0-3. Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: six - three - one (Riga wins - draws - Jelgava wins). As for goals, three matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), seven had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  K. Mbombo 6 goals |  Y. Zakharkiv 6 goals | R. Debelko 4 goals |
Riga missing players
Jelgava missing players
| Riga | Jelgava | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 12 | 6 | 2 | Played | P | 2 | 5 | 12 |
| 11 | 6 | 2 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 2 | 3 | 6 |
| 30 | 14 | 3 | Scored | S | 1 | 3 | 11 |
| 8 | 3 | 0 | Conceded | C | 5 | 7 | 20 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 80% | 92% |
| 83% | 83% | 50% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 40% | 58% |
| 58% | 33% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 40% | 58% |
| 33% | 33% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 20% | 25% |
| 25% | 17% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 50% | 20% | 17% |
| 50% | 33% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 40% | 50% |
| 50% | 67% | 100% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 20% | 25% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 60% | 33% |
| 4.8 | 5.5 | 5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.5 | 3.8 | 4.4 |
| 4.1 | 4.3 | 6.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4 | 3.6 | 5.2 |
| 2.4 | 2 | 3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.5 | 2.4 | 2.8 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 142 | 74 | 28 | Total Shots | T S | 14 | 47 | 106 |
| 66 | 34 | 8 | Shots on Target | S O | 6 | 21 | 53 |
| 45% | 41% | 38% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 17% | 14% | 21% |
- Jelgava has the fewest scored goals (3) away
- Jelgava have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
- Riga has the fewest conceded goals (3) at home
- Riga has the fewest conceded goals (8)
- Riga has the most clean sheets (4) at home
- Riga has the most clean sheets (6)
- Riga has the most points (18) at home
- Riga has the most scored goals (14) at home
- Riga has the most scored goals in the second half (22)
- Riga has the the best goal difference (+11) at home
- Riga has the the best goal difference (+22)
- Riga have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Riga have scored in all their matches so far.
- Riga have scored more than double the goals of Jelgava.
- Riga have won all their matches at home so far.
- 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 | 12 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 30 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 16 | 5 | 22 | 33 |
| 2 | Rigas FS | 12 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 31 | 13 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 19 | 8 | 18 | 28 |
| 3 | Spartaks Jurmala | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 20 | 18 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 11 | 2 | 18 |
| 4 | Valmiera / BSS | 12 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 19 | 19 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 12 | 0 | 18 |
| 5 | Ventspils | 12 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 14 | 15 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 10 | -1 | 15 |
| 6 | Jelgava | 12 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 11 | 20 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 13 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 7 | -9 | 14 |
| 7 | FC Daugavpils / Progress | 12 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 18 | 19 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 8 | -1 | 12 |
| 8 | Metta / LU | 12 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 13 | 20 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 14 | -7 | 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 | 12 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 8 | 30 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 19 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 11 | -22 | 4 |