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Riga First Half Goals
In 99 Virsliga matches, 72.7% of Riga’s first halves produced a goal, 6th of the 10 published clubs in the division. They scored before halftime in 65.7% of them and conceded in 23.2%.
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 65.7% of matches and at the wrong one in 23.2%, 42.5pp apart. Riga run against the usual pattern, scoring before halftime more often on the road (75.5%) than at home (56.0%).
Riga carry the smallest home-and-away difference of any published club in the division on that measure. First halves here rarely stop at one: where Riga’s matches produce an early goal, a second follows 60% of the time, against 52% across the division.
The goal difference before halftime alone is substantial: 1.17 scored a game against 0.28 conceded. Two goals before the break is no rarity in this fixture: 43.4% of Riga’s matches get there, where the division manages 38.8%.
Every figure on this page rests on 99 completed Riga matches over 3 seasons (2024 to 2026). At that size a single percentage point is about one match, so read each rate as a range rather than a figure.
Riga first-half profile
| A goal before halftime (over 0.5) | 72.7% |
|---|---|
| Two or more (over 1.5) | 43.4% |
| Three or more (over 2.5) | 19.2% |
| Average first-half goals in their matches | 1.45 |
| Matches in which they scored before halftime | 65.7% |
| Matches in which they conceded before halftime | 23.2% |
| First-half goals scored per match | 1.17 |
| First-half goals conceded per match | 0.28 |
| Matches counted | 99 |
| Seasons covered | 3 (2024 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 | 66.0% | 38.0% | 56.0% | 20.0% | 1.30 | 50 |
| Away | 79.6% | 49.0% | 75.5% | 26.5% | 1.61 | 49 |
Riga score before halftime 56.0% of the time at home against 75.5% away, a gap of −19.5pp. 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 | 72.7% | 74.4% | −1.7pp |
| Over 1.5 | 43.4% | 38.8% | +4.6pp |
| Over 2.5 | 19.2% | 17.6% | +1.6pp |
Counted from 99 matches · 3 seasons · 2024 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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