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Riga First Half Goals
In 208 Virsliga matches, 72.1% of Riga’s first halves produced a goal, 8th of the 12 published clubs in the division. They scored before halftime in 61.1% of them and conceded in 25.5%.
What Riga’s first halves look like
Early scoring in Riga’s matches is overwhelmingly their own: the net bulges at the right end before the break in 61.1% of matches and at the wrong one in 25.5%, 35.6pp apart. Riga carry the smallest home-and-away difference of any published club in the division on that measure.
Riga run against the usual pattern, scoring before halftime more often on the road (65.4%) than at home (56.7%). The goal difference before halftime alone is substantial: 1.06 scored a game against 0.31 conceded.
There is more record to read here than for most of the division: 208 matches against a typical 175. First halves here rarely stop at one: where Riga’s matches produce an early goal, a second follows 55% of the time, against 51% across the division.
Every figure on this page rests on 208 completed Riga matches over 6 seasons (2021 to 2026). That is enough to separate a clear tendency from noise, and not enough to split it much further by venue or opponent.
Riga first-half profile
| A goal before halftime (over 0.5) | 72.1% |
|---|---|
| Two or more (over 1.5) | 39.9% |
| Three or more (over 2.5) | 17.3% |
| Average first-half goals in their matches | 1.38 |
| Matches in which they scored before halftime | 61.1% |
| Matches in which they conceded before halftime | 25.5% |
| First-half goals scored per match | 1.06 |
| First-half goals conceded per match | 0.31 |
| Matches counted | 208 |
| Seasons covered | 6 (2021 to 2026) |
The over rows count goals by either side; the scored and conceded rows split that between them.
Home and away
| Venue | Over 0.5 | Over 1.5 | Scored | Conceded | Avg goals | Matches |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home | 70.2% | 37.5% | 56.7% | 23.1% | 1.30 | 104 |
| Away | 74.0% | 42.3% | 65.4% | 27.9% | 1.45 | 104 |
Riga score before halftime 56.7% of the time at home against 65.4% away, a gap of −8.7pp. Each row rests only on the matches played at that venue, so read them as two separate samples rather than one split in half.
Riga against Virsliga
| Line | Riga | Virsliga | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Over 0.5 | 72.1% | 72.9% | −0.8pp |
| Over 1.5 | 39.9% | 37.3% | +2.6pp |
| Over 2.5 | 17.3% | 15.5% | +1.8pp |
Counted from 208 matches · 6 seasons · 2021 to 2026.
How to read these numbers
- These are historical rates over pooled seasons, not a forecast. A club that has changed manager, division or squad reads as the average of every version of itself on record.
- The opponent matters as much as the club. A high-scoring side against a defense that rarely concedes early is a different fixture from the same side against one that does.
For the model’s estimate of an actual upcoming fixture rather than this club’s history, see first half goals predictions and how the model works.
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