Vice-leader of “Optibet” Latvian Football Super League RFS on Sunday won the 23rd round game, continuing to chase the “Riga” team.
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RFS beat “Jelgava” 1: 0 (1: 0) at home.
RFS was nominated by Tomislavs Šaričs, who after a corner kick received a shot from Vitālija Jagodinska and headed it into the goal, reaching 1: 0 in the 18th minute. Jelgavnieki remained in the top ten after half an hour, because Boriss Bogdaškins received a red card for unsportsmanlike conduct.
At the beginning of the second half, the Rigans shot the ball back into the visitors’ goal, but the goal was not scored due to the back. In the second part of the match, the capital’s club was unable to break the goal of Zemgale again, and the match ended with 1: 0 in favor of RFS.
RFS last lost at the end of August in Belgrade in a European League qualifying match against Partizan. Since then, RFS has won six games in eight games, with the last two celebrating against Spartak (2: 1) and Riga (3: 2).
After playing a series of four undefeated games in the Premier League and the Latvian Cup, leaving the field three times as winners, Jelgavnieki have lost the last three matches – previously acknowledging the superiority of “Riga” in their field with 0: 2 and conceding to Ventspils in the Latvian Cup after the game. National break »Jelgava“parted ways with seven footballers, among whom was also the season ‘s best goal scorer Yuri Zaharkiv.
The RFS could not help single-player disqualified Cedric Quadio.
The Rigans have been 1: 0 and 4: 0 superior in mutual fights this season.
It has already been reported that before that the tournament leader “Riga” beat “Daugavpils” 2: 0 (1: 0) in their field, but Jurmala “Spartaks” defeated “Valmiera” in the third position with the guests 1: 0 (0: 0).
Back on Sunday, the “Liepāja” team beat “Ventspils” 2: 0 (0: 0) in the duel of two Kurzeme teams, but “Tukums 2000” / TSS won the “Metta” team 3: 1 (0: 1) in their field. .
The first place in the tournament table with 63 points in 23 matches is taken by “Riga”, which is nine points ahead of RFS, which has played 22 games. 39 points are for “Valmiera”, 34 points – for “Ventspils”, 32 points for 21 games – “Liepāja”, but 31 points – for “Spartak”. “Jelgava” is further with 21 points, “Daugavpils” has accumulated 19 points, “Metta” has gained three less, while “Tukums 2000” / TSS has reached eight points.
This season, ten teams will start in the Super League, which is one more than last year and two more than yesterday. Also, this season in the Super League, the legionnaire limit has been raised to eight players. This means that there must be at least three players prepared for the association on the court at the same time. Last year, the limit was five foreign players.
As in many other countries, after the coronavirus break in the regulations of the Premier League championship in the 2020 season, the number of permitted player substitutions has been increased from three to five.
Due to the three-month forced break, three will be played instead of the four planned laps this season.
Last year, “Riga” was crowned Latvian champion, but RFS won its first trophy in the history of the club, which won the national cup.
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