Ventspils will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 13 points behind Rīgas FS.
There has not been much time to rest for the guests, as they played a Virsliga game only four days ago.
Rīgas FS play their home games on artificial turf, while this game is played on grass. Recent stats for Rīgas FS when playing on grass are 7 wins, 3 draws and 8 defeats from 18 matches. They have scored 21 goals and conceded 21 times in these games.
Ventspils form and stats
Ventspils have collected seven points from their first three games here, a promising start.Ventspils lost their last game at Riga after a 0-2 scoreline. In the match before that, Ventspils hosted FC Daugavpils / Progress and drew the game 1-1.
There's a new fixture coming up fairly quickly for Ventspils, as the Virsliga home game vs Liepāja is only four days away.
A decent goal production from Ventspils in their home games so far, with 5 goals from 3 matches. From these home matches, Ventspils have conceded only 2 goals.
Rīgas FS form and stats
4-0-0 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Rīgas FS, who have the most points (12) away in Virsliga, in their matches away. Impressively, the visitors are on a seven-match winning run which they hope continue versus Ventspils. Long winning streaks away are a rare occurrence in football, which only makes Rīgas FS's record of four away victories in a row even more impressive. They last lost points away in the Spartaks Jurmala game.The supporters enjoyed Rīgas FS's previous game versus Riga, a Virsliga 3-1 win played at home. Ahead of that match was the victory versus FC Daugavpils / Progress at their stadium, the result 1-0.
The Rīgas FS manager V. Dambrauskas has got the team scoring on the road, with 8 away goals in 4 matches. They concede less than a goal on average per away game (3 so far).
Head 2 Head
Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: 5 - 2 - 3 (Ventspils wins - draws - Rīgas FS wins).Top Goalscorers
  T. Šimkovič 3 goals |   T. Aiyegun 2 goals |  A. Zjuzins 2 goals |
Ventspils missing players
Rīgas FS missing players
| Ventspils | Rīgas FS | |||
| Total | Home | Statistic | Away | Total |
| 6 | 3 | Played | 4 | 7 |
| 7 | 5 | Scored | 8 | 15 |
| 7 | 2 | Conceded | 3 | 5 |
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | 100% | 100% |
| 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | 75% | 86% |
| 33% | 33% | Over 2.5 | 50% | 57% |
| 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | 25% | 29% |
| 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | 25% | 14% |
| 67% | 67% | Both teams to score | 50% | 57% |
| 17% | 33% | Clean Sheet | 50% | 43% |
| 17% | 0% | Failed To Score | 0% | 0% |
| 5.5 | 5.7 | Corners For (avg) | 6.2 | 5.7 |
| 3.8 | 3.7 | Corners Against (avg) | 5 | 4.3 |
| 2.5 | 2.7 | Yellow Cards (avg) | 2.2 | 2.7 |
| 0 | 0 | Red Cards (total) | 1 | 2 |
- Neither of the teams have played a single 0-0 game.
- Rīgas FS has scored in all of their 4 away matches.
- Ventspils has scored in all of their 3 home matches.
| 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 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 10 | 21 |
| 2 | Riga | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 12 |
| 3 | Valmiera / BSS | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 10 |
| 4 | Ventspils | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 8 |
| 5 | FC Daugavpils / Progress | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | -2 | 7 |
| 6 | Jelgava | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | -2 | 6 |
| 7 | Metta / LU | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 8 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6 | -2 | 6 |
| 8 | Liepāja | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | -3 | 6 |
| 9 | Spartaks Jūrmala | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | -3 | 6 |
