This has the potential to be an appealing match as Riga have their supposed home advantage, while Liepāja are ahead 3 points in the Virsliga table.
- Riga have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (1) in Virsliga
- Liepāja have the most scored goals in the second half (18) in Virsliga
One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on artifical turf and that the visiting Liepāja have a different surface at their stadium (grass). The impact of this is hard to measure exactly, but the visitors stats on artifical turf is 9-1-2 (win-draw-loss) from twelve matches.
The visiting Liepāja played their last game only four days ago, a Virsliga match. That game, against Super Nova, was also an away game. It's a tiring schedule for Liepāja.
Riga form and stats
5-0-0 (win-draw-lost) are the Virsliga numbers at home for Riga so far this season. After failing to beat Valmiera / BSS here at Stadions Skonto, Riga has put together a very nice winning streak on their own turf with five wins in a row.
Riga faced defeat in their previous match, away at Valmiera / BSS (0-3). Riga lost the game against Valmiera / BSS in the first half with a 0-3 deficit and could never come back from that.
Heartbreak before that as Riga lost 1-2 at Rigas FS's place.The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Riga handle that role? We have found four games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are two wins, one draw and one defeat.
There will be little rest for Riga after this match as they are travelling to Super Nova for a Virsliga game in only four days.
The Riga manager Fink has got the team scoring with 12 from 5 home games in the league. As for guarding their own goal, Riga have only let in 1 goal at home.
Liepāja form and stats
4-0-1 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Liepāja in their Virsliga matches away.
Liepāja play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 3-1 victory visiting Super Nova (placed 9th).
Preceding that game, the 0-3 loss visiting Valmiera / BSS's place.We have checked recent matches where Liepāja have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those four games were zero victories, zero draws and four defeats.
The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Spartaks Jurmala in just four days.
Liepāja create on average more than 2,5 goals per away game (in the league) all by themselves, having scored 14 goals in 5 travels. As opposed to that, Liepāja have seen the ball go into their own net 6 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
The teams have played each other before in this season, with the match result Liepāja - Riga 1-0 registered in the official records. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's six Riga victories, one draw and three Liepāja wins. Over/under statistics; four of these games ended with three goals or more, six matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  M. Ķigurs 4 goals |  A. Karašausks 4 goals | Ē. Punculs 4 goals |
Riga missing players
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| Riga | Liepāja | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 10 | 5 | 1 | Played | P | 0 | 5 | 10 |
| 6 | 5 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 4 | 7 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 14 | 12 | 2 | Scored | S | 0 | 14 | 26 |
| 7 | 1 | 1 | Conceded | C | 0 | 6 | 12 |
| 90% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 60% | 80% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 100% | 90% |
| 50% | 60% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 80% | 70% |
| 10% | 20% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 60% | 60% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 40% | 40% |
| 20% | 20% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 60% | 70% |
| 60% | 80% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 20% | 20% |
| 30% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 20% | 10% |
| 8.4 | 10.2 | 11 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 7 | 7.8 |
| 3.2 | 2.4 | 3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 3.2 | 3.4 |
| 2.2 | 1 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 0.8 | 1.4 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 13.4 | 16.4 | 16 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 13.4 | 13 |
| 5.3 | 7 | 9 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 5.8 | 5.8 |
| 26% | 34% | 22% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 48% | 45% |
| 6.9 | 4.2 | 6 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 9.4 | 7.4 |
| 2.8 | 1 | 2 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 4.8 | 3.8 |
- All of Liepāja's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Liepāja have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Liepāja have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Liepāja have the most scored goals in the second half (18) in Virsliga
- Liepāja have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
- Liepāja haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- 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 at home.
- Riga have scored in all their home matches so far.
- Riga have the fewest conceded goals (1) at home in Virsliga
- Riga have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (1) in Virsliga
- Riga have the most points (15) at home in Virsliga
- Riga have won all their matches at home so far.
- Riga have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
- Riga have won significantly more corners at home than away.
- 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 | Rigas FS | 11 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 32 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 21 | 6 | 22 | 26 |
| 2 | Valmiera / BSS | 11 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 28 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 5 | 21 | 26 |
| 3 | Liepāja | 10 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 26 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 14 | 6 | 14 | 22 |
| 4 | Riga | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 14 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 19 |
| 5 | Auda | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 15 |
| 6 | FC Daugavpils / Progress | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 14 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 9 | -5 | 15 |
| 7 | Metta / LU | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 19 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 12 | -9 | 9 |
| 8 | Tukums | 9 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 24 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 17 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 7 | -19 | 4 |
| 9 | Super Nova | 10 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 17 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 7 | -14 | 3 |
| 10 | Spartaks Jurmala | 10 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 4 | 22 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 13 | -18 | 1 |
