Ventspils and Liepāja spectators can't wait for Virsliga clash at Ventspils Olimpiskais Stadions

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Competition: Latvia Virsliga
Date: Sat 09.November
Match begins: 12:00 (UTC)
Venue: Ventspils Olimpiskais Stadions (3200 seats)

The league table in Virsliga tells a story about these teams so far, with Ventspils leading Liepāja by 11 points. Match preview to follow:

Ventspils and Liepāja should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.

One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on artificial 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 artificial turf is 9-2-8 (win-draw-loss) from 19 matches.

For Liepāja most of the excitement is over as they will neither be promoted or relegated this season.

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Ventspils form and stats

31 points is a decent return from 15 Virsliga games here at Ventspils Olimpiskais Stadions for Ventspils. The data says 8 wins, 7 draws and 0 losses.

The fans are hoping that Ventspils will strike back in this match, putting things right after the 1-2 away loss in the Virsliga game against Rigas FS (placed 2nd). Ahead of that match, Ventspils won a home game hosting Riga (2-1).

Ventspils have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Ventspils Olimpiskais Stadions with 27 goals in 15 league matches. Ventspils are not conceding a lot of goals here at Ventspils Olimpiskais Stadions in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 13 from 15 matches.

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Liepāja form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Liepāja so far with only 14 points returning home. The records show 4-2-9 (win-draw-lose). Bitter travels for Liepāja as they have lost four games in a row away from home. The last time they avoided an away-from-home loss was the Metta / LU match.

There were no winners in Liepāja's previous match, a Virsliga home game that ended 2-2 vs Riga (placed 1st). A 0-1 defeat away at FC Daugavpils / Progress before that.

Liepāja's last match (vs Riga) ended in drama as all points looked lost at the score 0-2. They did not give up, fought back and in the end a courageous finish rescued a draw and a point thanks to a 90th minute equalizer by R. Jurkovskis.

The attacking power of Liepāja when travelling is not overwhelming with 13 goals scored from 15 league matches away. As opposed to that, Liepāja have seen the ball go into their own net 20 times on the road.

Head 2 Head

Ventspils and Liepāja have met before this season: Liepāja - Ventspils 1-2. Head-to-head totals (for the last ten meetings): Ventspils won 5 games, 4 matches ended with a draw and Liepāja has 1 win. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: 3 / 7

Top Goalscorers

LiepājaJ. Ikaunieks
J. Ikaunieks
7 goals
VentspilsD. Ulimbaševs
D. Ulimbaševs
6 goals
Liepāja
R. Friday
6 goals

Ventspils missing players

Liepāja missing players

Ventspils Liepāja
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
31 15 4 Played P 4 15 31
12 8 3 Won W 1 4 10
11 7 1 Drew D 0 2 6
8 0 0 Lost L 3 9 15
47 27 8 Scored S 2 13 40
42 13 2 Conceded C 5 20 43
97% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 93% 94%
90% 93% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 50% 53% 65%
58% 53% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 25% 40% 58%
23% 20% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 13% 29%
10% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 13% 16%
65% 67% 50% BTTS BTTS 25% 47% 58%
26% 33% 50% Clean Sheets C S 0% 7% 16%
13% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 75% 53% 32%
 
5.8 6.4 7 Corners For (avg) C F 4.5 5.9 5.9
4.8 4.8 5.2 Corners Against (avg) C A 4.2 3.6 4.5
2.9 2.9 1.5 Yellow Cards (avg) Y C 2.8 2.5 2.6
4 2 0 Red Cards R C 0 0 2
Key stats this season:
  • Ventspils have not yet lost a game at home.
  • Ventspils have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • Ventspils have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Liepāja have scored away.
  • Ventspils have scored in all their home matches so far.
  • Ventspils haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.

Ventspils
All Virsliga Europa League Latvian Cup
All Home Away Home vs low
24-08-19 VI Liepāja 1 - 2 Ventspils
31-08-19 VI Spartaks Jūrmala 0 - 1 Ventspils
14-09-19 VI Ventspils 1 - 1 Jelgava
18-09-19 VI Riga 0 - 0 Ventspils
22-09-19 VI Metta / LU 3 - 3 Ventspils
29-09-19 VI Valmiera / BSS 2 - 0 Ventspils
05-10-19 VI FC Daugavpils / Progress 1 - 1 Ventspils
19-10-19 VI Ventspils 2 - 1 Riga
03-11-19 VI Rigas FS 2 - 1 Ventspils
09-11-19 VI Ventspils 13:00 Liepāja
Liepāja
All Virsliga Europa League Latvian Cup
All Home Away Away on artificial turf Away vs top
21-08-19 LC Liepāja 1 - 2 Rigas FS
24-08-19 VI Liepāja 1 - 2 Ventspils
30-08-19 VI Liepāja 3 - 3 Rigas FS
21-09-19 VI Spartaks Jūrmala 4 - 2 Liepāja
29-09-19 VI Liepāja 3 - 1 Jelgava
05-10-19 VI Liepāja 2 - 1 Metta / LU
20-10-19 VI Liepāja 2 - 3 Valmiera / BSS
27-10-19 VI FC Daugavpils / Progress 1 - 0 Liepāja
03-11-19 VI Liepāja 2 - 2 Riga
09-11-19 VI Ventspils 13:00 Liepāja

  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 31 19 6 6 55 20 15 9 4 2 27 6 16 10 2 4 28 14 35 63
2 Rigas FS 32 17 8 7 55 32 16 11 2 3 37 14 16 6 6 4 18 18 23 59
3 Ventspils 31 12 11 8 47 42 15 8 7 0 27 13 16 4 4 8 20 29 5 47
4 Valmiera / BSS 31 12 9 10 34 31 15 7 3 5 18 14 16 5 6 5 16 17 3 45
5 Spartaks Jūrmala 31 13 5 13 48 60 16 9 1 6 29 23 15 4 4 7 19 37 -12 44
6 Jelgava 31 9 10 12 32 35 16 4 6 6 15 17 15 5 4 6 17 18 -3 37
7 Liepāja 31 10 6 15 40 43 16 6 4 6 27 23 15 4 2 9 13 20 -3 36
8 FC Daugavpils / Progress 31 8 6 17 25 48 15 5 3 7 13 18 16 3 3 10 12 30 -23 30
9 Metta / LU 31 6 7 18 32 57 16 4 4 8 19 28 15 2 3 10 13 29 -25 25

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