The Virsliga league table might not tell the truth so early on, but it's the best truth we have so far. These two teams are placed 2nd and 3rd respectively.
Ventspils could be less fresh than the hosts in this fixture, as they played a Virsliga game only four sleeps ago.
This pitch has artificial turf, which is not Ventspils's usual surface at their own ground. When playing on artificial turf Ventspils have performed like this: Played four matches resulting in 2 wins, 1 draw and 1 defeat with the goal stats 7-5 (scored/conceded).
Riga form and stats
The home fans saw their team lose the first game of the season here. Last season these fans witnessed 10 wins, 3 draws and 1 loss from Riga's 14 home games.Happy days for Riga in their previous game, a Virsliga match away at FC Daugavpils / Progress that ended with a 1-0 victory. Ahead of that match, Riga lost 0-1 at home to Valmiera / BSS.
Riga has the goal stats of 0-1 (for/against) from 1 fixture.
Ventspils form and stats
Still no away game victory for Ventspils with 1 draw and 1 loss from their first 2 attempts.Ventspils delivered a 1-1 draw playing at home against FC Daugavpils / Progress in their previous match; a Virsliga game. A 1-1 draw at Valmiera / BSS's stadium before that.
As for goals scored and conceded in away games so far, Ventspils has managed 2 goals and let in 3 from 2 matches.
Head 2 Head
Last ten meetings between the teams: Riga won 3, Ventspils won 3 and 4 draws.Riga missing players
Ventspils missing players
| Riga | Ventspils | |||
| Total | Home | Statistic | Away | Total |
| 4 | 1 | Played | 2 | 5 |
| 4 | 0 | Scored | 2 | 7 |
| 2 | 1 | Conceded | 3 | 5 |
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | 100% | 100% |
| 25% | 0% | Over 1.5 | 100% | 100% |
| 25% | 0% | Over 2.5 | 50% | 40% |
| 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | 0% | 0% |
| 25% | 0% | Both teams to score | 100% | 80% |
| 50% | 0% | Clean Sheet | 0% | 20% |
| 25% | 100% | Failed To Score | 0% | 0% |
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | D | P |
| 1 | Rīgas FS | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 7 | 15 |
| 2 | Riga | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 9 |
| 3 | Ventspils | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 8 |
| 4 | Valmiera / BSS | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 7 |
| 5 | Jelgava | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | -1 | 6 |
| 6 | Liepāja | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -1 | 6 |
| 7 | FC Daugavpils / Progress | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | -2 | 4 |
| 8 | Spartaks Jūrmala | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | -2 | 3 |
| 9 | Metta / LU | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 5 | -6 | 0 |
