“Optibet” Premier League football club “Daugavpils” sent at least four balls in the opponents’ goal for the second time in a row, celebrating a convincing victory in the fourth round match over “Metta”, but “Ventspils” was also successful.
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“Daugavpils” won “Metta” in their field with 4: 2 (3: 1).
Namdi Činoso-Ofors was shown a yellow card for standing over the ball and blocking an opponent’s quick free kick after 15 minutes. In turn, already in the 17th minute, the experienced Valērijs Afansajevs scored his first goal in the Daugavpils team, who perfectly fulfilled the previously obtained standard situation.
The home team scored the third goal in the 33rd minute, when the first “goal” of the career was scored by Raivis Ķirsis, who was born in 2000. The attacker was the first to bounce the ball. The score was not reduced, as a minute later the rules were violated in the penalty area against “Metta” player Kgotso Masangani, for which Joshua Ogene-Ochuko received a red card. “Pendeli” was realized by Raimonds Krollis shortly afterwards, for whom it was the third goal gain in four matches.
“Daugavpils” also started promisingly in the second half, because after two minutes of play in the penalty area of Činoso-Oforam managed to find a “missing” ball among several players, scoring the fourth goal. The pace of the game continued to slow down a bit, but in the 78th minute along the left edge of the field went the counterattack Emīls Birka, who found Krolli in the penalty area, the attacker reaching 2: 4.
Metta have tried to use their lead over the last ten minutes, but have failed to score another goal.
After Monday’s duel, Krollis became the best goal scorer of the Premier League championship with four goals in the same games, sharing this honor with Nemanjs Belakovičs of Jūrmala “Spartak”.
Both units scored the first wins and first points of the season in the previous round. Daugavpils destroyed Tukums with 6: 0, but before that there were losses 0: 1 for “Jelgava” and 0: 2 for “Liepāja”. Meanwhile, “Metta” won “Jelgava” with 1: 0, revenge for failures 0: 3 against “Liepāja” and 1: 2 against “Spartak”.
The new striker Krollis scored both goals for the Rigans in the previous rounds, but Andrejs Kovaļovs stood out twice in the devastating victory for the Daugavpils team in Tukums.
Last year, both teams took the last two places in the tournament table, and all four matches were similar. “Daugavpils” was superior in the first two rounds with 1: 0, in the third round the duel ended without a draw 0: 0, but in the fourth round “Metta” won with 1: 0.
In the second duel of Monday, Jūrmala “Spartaks” gave way to “Ventspils” at home with 1: 3 (0: 1).
The home team spent the first half of the game more actively. After several great matches in the 18th minute, Capak Belakovičs was up to the mark of about 20 meters, but his shot was inaccurate. Seven minutes later, Vjačeslavs Kozlovs got the ball on the right side of the field, but he could not handle it quickly and lost his good position.
On the 32nd and 34th minute, Newton Obry Williams-Richards struck from about 18 and 20 meters. The first flew past the goal, but the second was blocked by the opponents’ defenders. In the 38th minute, Kozlov was able to reach 1: 0, but he could not keep a long pass from his partner at the left goal post. Kozlovs had a good opportunity to score the lead goal but the home team’s goalkeeper Nauris Bulvītis saved Dāvis Ošam’s shot that was headed for the top corner from the right.
In the second minute of the second half, Belakovich achieved an equalization. A player from the side of the penalty area received a pass from the partner and the ball in the air in the upper corner hit the top corner. In the 56th minute, after a partner’s pass, Kozlov became alone against Osha and with a light blow past the goalkeeper’s right hand, he gained the lead of “Ventspils”.
In the 62nd minute of the match, Eduards Višņakovs and Anatolijs Prepelice also went on the field. Both players missed the start of the season due to injuries.
In the last 15 minutes, “Spartakieši” tried to overcome the field with long centers, but the Kurzeme players regularly hit the ball in the middle of the field, and the home keeper could no longer endanger the opponents. In the last minute of the compensation time, Aderonma Kazims was still noticed 3: 1, whose first shot was a bit weak, but with the second approach he was unmistakable.
The injured Dimitrijs Litvinskis was not visible in Ventspils in this duel.
RFS is the leader of the Premier League with nine points in three games, followed by “Ventpils” with seven points in four dues. “Riga”, “Liepāja”, “Jelgava”, “Daugavpils” and “Spartaks” have scored six points, the last two have spent more than the game. Three points are for the “Metta” team, but for two less “Valmiera” football players, while in the beige there is currently only a “Tukums 2000” / TSS unit.
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