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Last year’s champions RFS win the Ventspils Latvian Cup semi-final

“Ventspils” won RFS at home with 1: 0 (0: 0)

The home team started the first semi-final game more actively, creating several scoring opportunities at the RFS goal in the second minute. Initially, the referee decided that the RFS defender did not play with a hand, but a moment later after the corner kick, repeated shots were inaccurate. In the third minute, Ventspils residents also got the right to execute a standard situation from about 18 meters, but the center ball in the penalty area soon fell into the hands of Danila Kučera.

In the half-time, the guests belonged to Riga. From the 33rd to the 37th minute, Roberts Savaļņieks performed three standard situations, two of them in the middle of the field, but none of the centers in the penalty area was turned into a goal. Two minutes before the end of the first half, Emerson Santana was in a good position, but his ball flew over Kucer.

The home team started the second game more resolutely, taking the lead in the third minute. Lukass Vilela caught everyone off guard with a great opening pass – but unfortunately Žigu Lipušček was as surprised by the move as anybody else, and managed to miss the extraordinary opportunity. RFS’s knee will be throbbing for days, but thankfully for RFS, he bravely continued in the match.

In the last 30 minutes of the match, “Ventspils” did not miss a duel for the ball, but the result remained unchanged. In the 80th minute, Jānis Ikaunieks, who had recently been replaced, was delivered to the penalty area in front of the goal, but his partner did not use his opportunity. Two minutes later, the ball arrived at the home side, but Sedriks Kuadio was previously in the back.

Konstantin Mahnovsky was able to keep the goal of the Kurzeme unit “dry” until the final whistle, but shortly before that he got involved in discussions with Lipushchek, about which both footballers received the yellow “patch”. Ventspils residents will meet in the final with the winner of “Liepājas” – “Valmiera” duel.

Forward Darko Lemajičs and defender Aleksandrs Solovjovs were unable to assist the RFS team in this game.

At 1 p.m., “Valmiera” and “Liepāja” had to meet in the second semi-final game, but the day before, one of the representatives of Valmiera came into short-term contact with a Covid-19 patient, as a result of which testing was quickly performed in the unit. The Latvian Football Federation (LFF) reports that all tests were negative.

Due to the above reason, both teams will start the semi-final match on Wednesday at 15.

“Riga” won the cup holder RFS in the quarterfinals in a tense battle with 3: 2, Valmiera managed to win “Tukums 2000” / TSS at the very end with 1: 0, “Liepāja” won “Jūrmala” “Spartaku” 3: 1, but in Jelgava “Ventspils” after 0: 0 draw In 120 minutes of the game, “Jelgava” won with 4: 3 in a series of 11-meter penalties.

In the Latvian Cup, domestic clubs compete not only for the trophy, but also for the right to represent Latvia in the UEFA club tournament.

In the first round, 26 teams from the Latvian second and third leagues participated, two teams automatically qualify for the next round. Thirteen first-round winners, two wild-card recipients, and nine first-league clubs took part in the second round.

Twelve second-round winners took part in the third round, and ten Optibet Premier League clubs joined the six winners in the eighth final.

The final at the Olympic Center “Ventspils” stadium will take place on November 8. The Ventspils Latvian Cup final was hosted for the only time in the 2014/2015 season, when the hosts acknowledged the superiority of “Jelgava” footballers in the final with 0: 2.

In the history of the Latvian Cup, since 1936, 38 different club teams have won the prestigious trophy, but since the restoration of the country’s independence, 12 different teams have raised the cup over their heads.

Since 2017, the winners of the tournament have been presented with a new design and identity trophy.

The current trophy holder is the RFS team, which was with it for the first time in history last year. Last year, the people of Riga only surpassed the most titled cup team “Jelgava” of the last decade in overtime.

The most titled team in the tournament is the non-existent “Skonto”, which triumphed in the tournament eight times from 1992 to 2012.

The Latvian Cup in football was played in one season until 2008, but since 2009/2010 it has been started in the previous season for the next eight years and completed in the spring of next year. Thus, the fourth Latvian participant in the Euroccups was determined only about a month before the start of the new UEFA Europa League season.

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