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On Saturday, all five 22nd round games will be played in the Optibet Latvian Football Super League, some of them taking place in an important battle for places in the tournament table.
First at 13:00 “Jelgava” Zemgale Olympic Center Jānis Lūša Stadium will host the state champions “Riga”. The game will be broadcast live on the portal “Sportacentrs.com”.
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Jelgavnieki have celebrated two victories in a row in the Super League and have stabilized in the seventh place, beating the team of “Metta” and “Daugavpils” in the tournament table of their closest followers. During the national team break, “Jelgava” parted ways with seven footballers, among whom is also the best goal scorer of this season’s unit Jurijs Zaharkivs.
Meanwhile, “Riga” has won four consecutive victories, which allows it to take the first place in the tournament table and overtake RFS by six points. Victory in Saturday’s match will bring even more Rigans closer to the third title in a row.
In the previous two rounds, “Riga” won both games with 3: 0, with six different football players standing out.
At 3 pm, in the important game for the fourth place in Jurmala’s “Spartaks” Sloka Stadium, he will measure his strength with “Ventspils”, broadcasting the duel live to the channel “Sportacentrs.com TV”.
Jūrmalnieki have been without victories in the Super League for more than a month and a half, suffering three losses in five matches and fighting twice in a draw. In the last two games, Spartaks has lost minimally to both flagships from Riga (1: 2).
In contrast, “Ventspils” is in a series of four losses, leaving points only against the leading three teams in the last month. In the previous match at the end of the game against “Valmiera”, the goal was scored, but the joys were short, because the people of Vidzeme quickly responded with the same, and the fight ended in a draw.
“Ventspils” victory will allow to strengthen in the fourth place, but “Spartak” success will give an opportunity to catch Ventspils residents.
Due to the warnings, Giorgi Mtchedišvilli will not be able to help the Kurzeme club.
In the first round, “Ventspils” won with 3: 1, but in the second match, the draw ended 1: 1. Former Jūrgenijs Kozlovs from Jurmala has scored three of the four Ventspils goals in these games.
Also, at 3 pm, the match will be no less intriguing, in which “Daugavpils” stadium “Celtnieks” will meet with the “Metta” team, broadcasting the fight to the channel “Best4Sport TV”.
Three points are vital for both teams, so that they do not stay in the penultimate place at the end of the season, which would mean participating in the playoffs. Both Daugavpils residents and Rigans have accumulated 16 points this season, which gives them the eighth and ninth place in the tournament table, respectively.
In the Daugavpils Super League, he has lost three games in a row and failed in seven of the last eight fights. The Metta team has lost two in a row and six in the last seven dues.
In this game, a duel between two young strikers is expected – 18-year-old “Metta” footballer Raimonds Krollis has scored nine goals this season, but three-year-old “Daugavpils” player Marko Regžs has seven exact shots.
The Daugavpils team celebrated convincing victories (4: 2 and 4: 1) in the first two rounds. In the first round, Namdī Ofors stood out twice for the Latgalians, who is now already in the RFS team.
Meanwhile, at 4 pm, Valmiera will fight with Tukums 2000 ″ / TSS in the last position in the stadium of Vidzeme Olympic Center. The game will be broadcast from Valmiera on the portal “Sportacentrs.com”, but the second half will also be shown live on the TV channel.
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The people of Valmiera are without victories in three games, in the previous two they only pulled out by a point at the end. Meanwhile, the people of Tukums celebrated their first victory in the Premier League in the previous round, beating Daugavpils 2: 1 in the last minutes.
The team from Valmiera, which was left without Toluvalas Arokodare, needs a victory today to prevent the closest competitors from approaching their third place. Tukums footballers have eight points up to the penultimate place and they can gradually prepare to play in the first league.
This season in both previous games Vidzeme people were superior – 2: 0 and 3: 2. Arokodare, who has already made his debut as a member of the German Bundesliga “Koln”, scored four of the five goals in these battles.
Finally, in the final game of the day and round, “Liepāja” at the stadium “Daugava” at 18.00 will duel with RFS. The match will be watched on the portal “Sportancentrs.com”.
In the match with the “Riga” team “Liepāja”, a series of five victories was interrupted in the previous round. In contrast, RFS defeated Spartak after two draws and returned to the trail of victory.
If “Spartaks” defeats “Ventspils” today, then the victory of the wind city team in the fifth place will allow to climb to the fourth position, which can give a ticket to the Eurocups at the end of the season. RFS is stable in the second, but three points will allow the “Riga” team to continue chasing.
“Liepāja” has Artūrs Karašausks in the last three games without scoring a goal, who previously scored a total of six goals in four consecutive draws.
Due to the accumulated warnings, both teams will have shortcomings. Ingars Sarmis Stuglis will not be able to help Liepāja residents, but Sedriks Kuadio will not help Riga residents.
RFS – 5: 2 and 3: 0 have celebrated convincing victories in both games this season.
Before the 22nd round games, the first place in the tournament table with 57 points is taken by “Riga”, which is six points ahead of RFS. 36 points are for “Valmiera”, 31 points – for “Ventspils”, 29 points – for “Liepāja” and 28 – for “Spartak”. Next is “Jelgava” with 21 points, but “Daugavpils” and “Metta” have accumulated 16 points each, 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 a 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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