[Football- Latvia 'Optibet Virsliga'] 21.6/ 18:00 Spartaks Jurmala - Metta
The match in the 18th round of the Latvian Optibet Virsliga. After its end, Latvia will be half of the season behind it. Jurmala's Spartaks entered the season badly, losing just two points after the first twelve rounds. Something flinched in the team, however, as they had two important victories in a row in mid-May (against Daugavpils and Super Nova), which allowed them to skip the last, tenth place.
Today's opponent is very well known to the hosts and recent years have shown that he is also ... comfortable. Metta has not won at Slokas Stadion in nearly seven years. Not only that - out of fourteen matches in this place as many as twelve ended with Spartak's victory.
The last H2H meeting ended with a win for Metta (who was the host), but the history from a year ago shows that while away Spartak is not necessarily able to collect points regularly, at home - at least with today's opponent - he is doing it concerts.
In order to be fully objective in the context of the chances in this rivalry, it would be necessary to check how big the difference of forces existed in relation to one and the other team in previous years. Last season, Spartaks finished in 5th place, Metta was seventh. Before that - it was sixth and ninth place, respectively. Even earlier - the fifth and seventh. It looks like this season is extremely unfortunate for the players from the Baltic Sea, and today presents a great opportunity for a so-called breakthrough.
This victory would be important as they would be two points closer to Metta, and they would have played one game less. Hence, it will be an ideal starting position to attack higher positions in the league table. It is worth adding that Spartaks have been playing for a month under the new coach, Fabiano Flora. After four weeks, it's a good time for the reorganized team to start collecting points.
1 @2,25 Bet365
FT 4:2
[Football- Latvia 'Optibet Virsliga'] 21.6/ 18:00 Spartaks Jurmala - Metta
1 @2,25
