/nginx/o/2020/08/09/13262341t1hdd48.jpg?fit=%2C&ssl=1 "What’s new in football? Speaking by Kreipāns: The Return of the Beauty, Tolu hat-trick and “Riga FC” victory series – Football Premier League – Football")
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Tukums was close to victory in another game (2: 1 was still in the 61st minute, but 2: 2 was held until the 90th minute) or at least one more point, but one of the events in Tukums became a 19-year-old Nigerian. Toluvalas Arokodare or simply Tolu three goals scored or a hat-trick for FK “Valmiera”. Tolu became the second player after Kule from “Riga FC”, who scored 3 goals in one game and now has 12 goals at his expense.
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This season’s tournament is a little shorter than it was a year ago (27 games instead of 32 games for each team), but it looks like maybe someone will score 20 goals again. The last time this happened was in 2014, when Vladislavs Gutkovskis from “Skonto FC” scored 28 goals, but Jānis Ikaunieks from FC “Liepāja – scored 23 goals.
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Who will be the first “victim” of the Tukums team? The question is open, but there will certainly be such a “victim”. Probably, the coach Jurģis Kalns has already been blamed for the fact that the team “does not enter” the defense neither when it was 2: 1, nor when it was possible to save even a point, but there is already the fact that the Tukums team is trying to play football and score instead of defending points. Only with such an attitude can something be achieved and learned. The school pays money (read – lost games) and this has always been the case. The next game for the people of Tukums will be in Riga with FK “Metta”. With a team that is also sympathetic to trying to play football with any opponent and is currently the closest competitor to Tukums.
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Jānis Ikaunieks made his debut in the Super League in 2013 (in the very first game with “Metta / LU” and also scored a goal – scored 4: 0), but now he had another debut – so far Jānis had played in the Super League only in the ranks of FC “Liepāja”, But now he was substituted by Liepaja residents in the ranks of RFS team. With the inclusion of Ikauniekis, the RFS team’s possibilities to change the composition without suffering to the quality of the game became even greater. It will be very useful in the European Cups, it will be useful when chasing the leader and champion “Riga FC” (3: 0 victory over FK “Jelgava”). The two leaders are separated by 5 points, the two are even further away from their closest followers and a big miracle or something unpredictable has to happen for the duo to break up and for the other teams to have something more than a bronze. The second mutual duel of the two leaders will take place on August 30 at Skonto Stadium and there is a lot to decide in the fight for the title.
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RFS beat FK “Liepāja” by 3: 0, but it was not a game “in one goal”. Yes, the victory is convincing, yes, RFS was superior, but the difference in the performance of the teams was not so much different, how far apart they are in the tournament table – 31 and 11 points, respectively, 2nd and 9th place, respectively. The Belarusians (Gorbachev and Berjozkin) have not yet joined the ranks of the Liepaja team, the defender of the Montenegrin team Simimi is still in quarantine, Chudar had to miss the game, Kate was injured, but Karšauskas was the last game to be missed. So that potentially the team needs to become stronger (Forteš, F. Ivanov, Bedoui and Semeniv are away, Alfa, Teiho, Tīdenbergs, Zelmanis are present, the 20-year-old Ziemelis left the field for the first time this season in the match with RFS …), but the composition of Liepaja residents was not such as to be able to think about medals? So the reasons for failure must be found somewhere deeper. FK “Liepāja” has only one victory in the last 10 games. And the next game will now be at home with the most principled opponent FC “Ventspils” …
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However, the champion “Riga FC” continues its series of victories – now 11 wins in a row. The club’s record – 12 wins in a row and 19 games not lost in a row – was achieved in the 2018 season, when the “Rigans” won the title for the first time. The next game “Riga FC” is in Daugavpils. The first of these records can be repeated.
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After two consecutive games on their field, in which the unused goal scoring opportunities did not allow to win, the Daugavpils team immediately scored four – a 4: 1 victory in Riga over FC “Metta”. Before this game, both teams had 12 points each, both tried to get as far as possible from the 9th place and closer to the top six. Daugavpils had 5 consecutive unbeaten games and three draws in a row, but now a convincing victory before the champions.
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FK “Ventspils” had won only one of the last 7 games before the game with Jūrmala “Spartak”, but for the Spartans before going to Ventspils everything was the other way around – only one loss in the last 7 games. However, the team from Jurmala had not won the Ventspils team in three matches in a row. They didn’t win this time either – 1: 1, but the series of both teams continues and both are still real contenders for a place in the top three.
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Almost half of the game teams have been played – 13 out of 27 (except for “Spartak” and Liepāja team, whose first round match was postponed to September 16). It seems that the most exciting part is just beginning.
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