Riga, August 23, LETA. “Optibet” in the 16th round match of the Latvian Football Super League “Riga” on their field destroyed “Tukums 2000” / TSS and won the honor of the league leaders, “Ventspils” beat Jurmala “Spartak” in the fight for the fourth place, but “Valmiera” strengthened in the third place, whose league’s best bomber Toluvalase Arokodare scored his 15th goal of the season.
“Valmiera” beat “Jelgava” with 2: 0 (0: 0) in the stadium of Vidzeme Olympic Center.
The goal was scored by Toluvalase Arokodare and Krišs Kārkliņš.
The home team took the lead only in the 53rd minute of the match, when after the grandmaster’s worthy pause, the goalkeeper Vladislav Kurakina realized Arokodare’s pass in the away penalty area was recorded by the main referee of the match Artis Ķēniņš.
A convincing 11-meter penalty kick with a broadcast goal in the middle under the crossbar was carried out by the “victim” himself, scoring his 15th goal this season – 1: 0.
In the 63rd minute, the home captain Kārkliņš stood out with a beautiful goal from a greater distance in the near upper corner of the goal – 2: 0.
It has already been reported that “Ventspils” beat “Daugavpils” 2: 0 (1: 0) in its stadium.
Kaspars Svārups and Daniils Ulimbashevs scored for the home team.
After the “intelligence” at the beginning of the match in the 11th minute, Guga Phalavandishvili checked the vigilance of the long-range away goalkeeper Ivan Dubodelov, but in the 18th minute, Svārups, who won “on the second floor”, scored from Ventspils after the pass of Eugene Kozlov.
In the 49th minute, after Uliorbashev scored from the right, Giorgi Mčedlišvili scored from the right.
51 minutes into the game, Daugavpils were awarded a penalty and Raivja Ķiršs was able to reduce the visitors’ lead to 0 – 4 rolling the ball in by the right post.
In the first lap with 3: 1 Daugavpils were superior.
The national champion “Riga” easily beat the tournament debutants “Tukums 2000” / TSS, celebrating the success with 5: 2 (3: 0).
Rožers Rodrigues and Kuls Mbombo won two goals, Oleg Laizāns won one, while Emeka Basils and Kaspars Anmanis stood out.
“Riga” footballers celebrated 13 consecutive victories in the Super League, but for Tukums team it was the fourth loss in a row.
Laizāns were given a gift! The ref dubiously awarded them a penalty 11 minutes into the match, which was neatly put away by Rodrigess. Eight minutes later, after the goal was scored, he used an error in the guest match, intercepting the ball addressed to the goalkeeper Ivan Baturin, who went far from the goal, and sent it to the goal without obstacles – 3: 0.
However, the second half started with a beautiful goal performed by the guests, with Basil standing out in the 48th minute – 1: 3.
Ten minutes later, the three-goal gap was restored by Mbombo. In the 81st minute, he scored another goal, scoring his ninth goal this season and climbing to the third place in the list of the most productive footballers of the league with Nemanjs Belkovičs from Jūrmala “Spartaka” and Namdi Ofora from RFS.
In the second minute of the compensation time, another beautiful long shot hit Kaspars Anmanis, reaching 2: 5.
In the first round with 5: 1 in Tukums, the “Riga” team won, and Mbombo stood out with a “hat-trick”.
In the first match of the round, on Friday, RFS won “Metta” in their field with 5: 1, but on Saturday “Liepāja” in the last minute pulled a draw 2: 2 against Jūrmala “Spartak”.
RFS, “Valmiera” and “Ventspils” 16th round games are the last ones before the upcoming matches in the UEFA Europa League qualification next week.
“Riga” has regained the leading position in the league, with 42 points in 15 matches, 40 points in RFS 16 battles, but “Valmiera” takes the third place with 28 points in 16 matches. “Ventspils” now has 23 points in 16 dues and Jurmala “Spartak” in 15 fights. 15 points in 16 and 15 matches, respectively, are “Daugavpils” and “Metta”. “Liepāja” and Jelgava have 14 points in 15 and 16 fights, respectively, but “Tukums 2000” / TSS has scored four points in 16 duels.
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, the number of permitted substitutions has been increased from three to five after the coronavirus break in the regulations of the Premier League championship in the 2020 season.
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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