The Valmiera team won the Optibet Latvian Football Super League game on Wednesday and approached the leader RFS in the tournament table. “Valmiera” in Riga in the stadium “Daugava” won “Daugavpils” with 4: 0.
Raimonds Krollis, Džibrils Gay and Aliuns Ndojs scored two goals for Valmiera club.
Vidzemnieki revealed the result of the game in the 13th minute, when the 11-meter penalty kick was taken by Captain Krollis. The attacker was in no hurry to execute the “pendulum” and sent the ball in a slow manner in the lower left corner. Krollis’s counterattacks created a good chance for Žoržem Teišeiram on the right after 19 minutes, but he could only look on with dismay as his strike rebounded off the crossbar.
Four minutes after the dangerous shot from Portugal, Kaspars Kokins tried to create a moment at the “Valmiera” goal, but his pass in the penalty area did not reach the addressee. Immediately after this episode, the head coach of “Valmiera” Tamazs Pertija loudly called on his footballers to more actively disarm the opponents from the ball.
Krollis received medical care 15 minutes before the end of the half, who was replaced in the 61st minute. 42 minutes into the match, Krollis came close to leveling the score with a dangerous shot from the center of the area that went just over the bar. After 70 minutes, the defensive line of Krollim created a counterattack through the middle that gave Gejam a good look at the goal, but his shot glanced harmlessly off the crossbar.
In the second half, the ball was mostly in the center of the field or in duel between players. From time to time, the people of Valmiera were able to aggravate the situation at the “Daugavpils” gate, but without the expected result. With 73 minutes played, Gejs had a fantastic opportunity to reply but his shot flew harmlessly into the side-netting of the goal.
By the end of the regular time, the people of Valmiera managed to score two more goals. After 86 minutes, a deliberate handball from Ndojs’s Ndojs was judged to be his second bookable offense, and he was sent off.
The people of Valmiera started the season well, but recently the wins have changed with the losses. In the last game of May, Jūrmala “Spartak” lost 0: 1, but later victories followed against “Daugavpils” (2: 1) and “Metta” (2: 0). In the last game, Vidzeme players won the leading team RFS with 2: 1.
“Daugavpils” lost to “Spartak” 0: 2 in the last match, previously played a goalless draw with “Liepāja”, but even before that “Ventspils”, which no longer plays in the super league, won 3: 2.
This season, the first meeting of both teams ended in a draw 2: 2, but in the second match 2: 1, “Valmiera” won.
The leader of “Valmiera” attack with eight goals is Raimonds Krollis, but in “Daugavpils” team three footballers have two “goals”. Raivis Ķiršs scored four goals for the Latgale team, but he returned to the ranks of “Riga”.
On Friday, a few hours before the match with the Valmiera team, the Daugavpils team announced that Matija Pejovičs, a defender from Montenegro, had joined its ranks. The footballer started the season at home, but now “Riga” owns the right to him. It is from this team that the football player will be hired until the end of the season.
The day before, a contract was signed with striker Christian Kauselis.
It has already been reported that in the introduction of the 20th round, “Liepāja” won the championship unit “Riga” at home with 1: 0 (1: 0) on Thursday.
In the table of the overall league ranking, the first place with 34 points in 14 games is occupied by RFS, further with 32 points in 16 dues is “Riga” and also “Valmiera”, which has played 15 matches. Behind the first three with 22 points in 14 matches is “Liepāja”, but further with 15 points in 14 battles are “Daugavpils” and Jūrmala “Spartaks”. “Metta” takes the sixth place with nine points in 14 matches, but the last with three points in 11 games is Daugavpils “Noah Jurmala”.
This year’s Premier League champion will be determined in a four-lap tournament. It was initially reported that the calendar would be designed to be as convenient as possible for football fans. It was also promised that the games would hardly overlap, and the rounds would mostly be played in two to three days.
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