RFS will pick up its opponents from Valmiera at the stadium “Arkadija” at 18.00, broadcasting the game live on the channel “Sportacentrs.com TV”.
The Rigans showed an impressive performance at the beginning of the season, fighting without losses in seven games. The first “saw” on July 17 was provided by RFS champion “Riga”, who celebrated the victory with 2: 1. In the next duel, RFS struck newcomers from Tukums with 3: 0, but in the final fight, the guests suffered a 2: 3 failure in the eventful game against “Ventspils”.
Meanwhile, “Valmiera” has won three successes in the previous five games and at times played a draw, as well as suffered a loss. The guests managed to play “Liepāja” and “Jelgava” with 1: 0 and 2: 1, respectively, but later the guests from Daugavpils were beaten at home with 3: 0. In the next fight he played 2: 2 against “Metta”, but the last visit to Riga to the champions ended with 0: 1.
The two teams met this season on June 20, when RFS guests had a convincing success with 4: 0.
For RFS team, the last duel in Ventspils was completely unsuccessful, because already in the first half Leonel Strumija and Vyacheslav Minajev received the red cards. Also, two coaches – Viktors Morozs and Lithuanian Mariuss Skrinderis – will not be able to help the team in the fight against Valmiera. In the game against Ventspils, Skrinder did not hide his dislike for the judge’s decision, as a result of which the water bottle on the side of the field received a specialist kick.
Meanwhile, Muhammad Viktor Jiang will not be part of the “Valmiera” team.
RFS recently won the “Daugavpils” attack leader Chinonso Ofors, but on Tuesday, after a few months of absence, the defender of the Latvian national team Vitalijs Jagodinskis returned to the club.
It is significant that Jagodinskis moved directly from RFS to “Valmiera” after last season. He could not find a common denominator with the team’s head coach Tamaz Pertija, so “Valmieras” did not leave the field in the last five matches.
Disagreements between the defender and the coach led to a letter signed by 24 footballers, which was sent to the club’s owner Ralph Osvald Insenberg. The letter asked for the dismissal of Perth and Vice President Uldis Pūcītis.
The disagreements quickly subsided, because the very next day the people of Valmiera fought with “Riga” in almost the strongest line-up. The biggest shortcoming in the composition is the goal line. Vladislav Lazarev will most likely leave the team, the fate of Ukrainian goalkeeper Andrei Kozhuhar is still unclear, but Rudolf Soloha made his debut in the fight against “Riga”, who will probably also defend the goal in a duel against the RFS.
The leader of the attack in Riga is Emerson Santana Deuslesian, who is the second best goal scorer of the championship with seven “goals”. Five accurate broadcasts have been surrendered to Ofors, who also account for four assists. His teammate Artūrs Zjuzins has one more pass.
Toluvalase Arokodare scored five goals in Valmiera unit.
On Thursday, four games are planned for the Premier League championship: “Daugavpils” will host “Jelegava”, “Liepāja” will visit “Metta”, “Tukums 2000” / TSS will fight “Ventspils” in their field, but “Riga” will compete with “Spartak” in Jurmala.
After ten rounds, “Riga” is still in the leading positions of the Premier League, which has accumulated 27 points, three points ahead of the long-standing RFS. Jūrmala “Spartaks” has taken the third place with 17 points in nine dueles, 15 points are for “Valmiera”, 14 points – for “Ventspils”, but “Jelgava” has 12 points. “Liepāja” followed with 11 points in nine games, “Daugavpils” has ten points, the “Metta” team has scored eight points, while “Tukums 2000” / TSS has scored two 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, 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 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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