RFS and Valmiera football players started the first qualifying tournament of the UEFA European Conference League season on Thursday with a loss.
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RFS Slokas Stadium in Jurmala with 2: 3 (0: 2) conceded to the Faroe Islands team “Klaksvik.
Žiga Lipuščeks and Artūrs Zjuzins scored the goal for the home team, Bjūbekars Sumeri, Pals Kletskards and Heini Vatnsdāls scored the guests.
The match started with Darko Lemajič’s yellow card in the second minute.
The trouble continued with the goal lost in the 21st minute. Joanness Danielsens from the right side of the penalty area, and Sumerī passed the ball past Vītautas Čerņauskas – 1: 0 in favor of the guests.
Shortly after, Sumeri got a yellow card, dropping to the corner of his penalty area Darko Micevski. In the 33rd minute, the result was already 2: 0 in favor of Faroese footballers. After a pass from the penalty area, Kletskards fired the ball from the penalty area in the lower right corner. In the 42nd minute, Tomāšs Šimkovičs stumbled upon Sumeri in the middle of the field with a technique seen in martial arts, receiving a yellow card.
Micevska came on for Leonels Strumija in the second half and was given a yellow card after two minutes. A minute later, Danielsens, the author of the result pass, saw the yellow patch in front of him. In the 50th minute, the home team played one goal. The visitors’ goalie didn’t stand a chance as Matiass Rosenorns knocked the ball home. 1 – 2, in which Lipuščeks was booed thoroughly by the home crowd.
In the 66th minute, during one RFS attack on the left side, Cedric Cadio was first “cut”, then Emerson Santana was stopped by an unauthorized method, but for stopping the attack, the guests earned only one yellow card, which Odmars Faero saw in front of him.
In the 70th minute, the guests restored the dominance of the two goals. After a corner kick from the left, the first broadcast through the goal was blocked by Čerņausks, but the most prominent in front of the goal was Wattsdal – 3: 1. In the 76th minute, the home team made two substitutions, coming to the field instead of Zjuzins Šimkovičs and Kevin Frīzenbihler instead of Kvadio. After only three minutes, Zjuzins reduced the difference to 2: 3.
During the compensation of the game, Lipuščeks and Deni Pavlovičs earned the yellow card for the home team. 
The answer game in Klaksvik is scheduled for July 15.
“Valmiera” also suffered a loss with one goal deficit, which in Marijampolė lost 1: 2 (1: 1) to the local club “Sūduva”.
Raimonds Krollis scored for Valmiera, but Nikolass Gorobsov and Aleksandrs Gargalacidis scored for the home team.
Krollis responded to Gorobsov’s 11-meter penalty kick in the 27th minute with the same in the 35th minute. The home team had Semir Kerla with the yellow card in the first half, and Viktors Aleksandrovs and Motezs Zadems for the guests. In the second half, the home team made five shifts and the guests four shifts.
Daisuke Jokota from Valmiera earned a yellow card in the first minute of the compensation period, but Gargalacidis scored 2 – 1 in favor of “Sūduva”.
The answer game is scheduled for July 15 at the “Daugava” stadium in Riga.
