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Minute 151–1
Salah Oulad equalises, Riga 1–1 Kairat
Marc Gual put Kairat ahead from the penalty spot in the 5th minute. Salah Oulad responded in the 12th, assisted by Maksims Tonisevs, and it is level again. It is Oulad's second league goal this season.
Number of the match: 12th minute — That is how long Riga waited to respond after Gual's penalty, with Salah Oulad equalising.
Minute 70–1
Gual from the spot, Riga 0–1 Kairat
Kairat go ahead as early as the 5th minute. Marc Gual calmly converts a penalty and opens the scoring in the first round of the Europa Conference League. Riga have to chase the game from the start.
Number of the match: 5 — In the 5th minute Marc Gual gave Kairat the lead from the penalty spot and scored the first goal of the match.
Live · half-time · 1–1
Riga dominate but only level with Kairat at half-time
Riga had the ball for most of the first half and still go in at 1–1. Kairat were handed a penalty early on and then settled into the game on level terms.
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Number of the match69%That is how much possession Riga had in the first half, and yet the score is a draw.
Riga have the ball, the score is even. It started with a penalty: in the 5th minute Marc Gual put Kairat ahead. Riga answered in the 12th minute, when Salah Oulad scored after an assist from Maksims Tonisevs. After that, possession was 69% to 31% and shots 9 to 7. On target, 3 each. Corners, 2 each. That dominance did not turn into a lead.
What the season says about late goals. Riga have an argument here from their goal profile: 4 of the 12 goals they have scored this season came after the 75th minute. This is a team that can add to the tally at the end. On top of that, they are on a run of 4 matches without defeat. Oulad now has 2 league goals, while Riga's top league scorer, Iago Siqueira, has 3 goals in 6 matches.
Before the match
Riga host Kairat in the first meeting between the clubs in the Conference League
Riga host Kairat in Matchday 1 of the Conference League. The hosts come into the game on a run of 4 matches unbeaten, while the visitors arrive after dropping out of the Champions League qualifiers and losing their Europa League play-off. The clubs have never met before.
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Number of the match49 daysThat is how long it has been since both Riga and Kairat last played, so both teams return after an equally long break.
Riga unbeaten in four matches
Riga go into the match on a run of 4 matches unbeaten. After 32 rounds of the Latvian league they have the most potent attack in the competition, and they have not lost at home in seven matches. Across all competitions their run is longer: six matches unbeaten and three wins in a row. That is a good backdrop ahead of their debut in the league phase of European competition. Goalkeeper Frenks Dāvids Orols says the motivation in the squad is obvious, because it is the first such match in the club's history.
Kairat after two defeats in Europe
Kairat have had clearly tougher weeks in European competition. In the Champions League qualifiers they lost 0–2 in Sofia to Levski and went out of that competition. Then, in the Europa League play-off, they lost to Anderlecht 0–6 on aggregate and dropped into the Conference League from there. Their last match, though, was in the Kazakh league: on 10 October they won 1–0 against Zhetysu Taldykorgan. It has been 49 days since their previous match in Europe, played in the Europa League.
The first meeting in history
Riga and Kairat have never met before, so there are no head-to-head results to lean on. What remains is the history of similar matches. In 6175 matches across all leagues in which the gap in team strength was similar, the home side won in 50% of cases. A draw came in 25%, an away win in 25%. At least 3 goals were scored in 52% of those matches. That is how such contests have ended so far.
Siqueira and late goals
Riga's top scorer in the league is Iago Siqueira, who has scored 3 goals in 6 matches. The hosts often score late: 4 of their 12 goals this season came after the 75th minute. There is also a flip side to that statistic. Riga have the most goals disallowed after VAR in the league, 1. Late goals and video review decisions are therefore themes that have accompanied their league matches this season.
Injuries and absences on both sides
Riga will be without Orlando Galo. After knee surgery he will be unavailable for at least two months. Kaio Ferreira, Baba Musa and Anthony Contreras are doubtful. Kairat are missing Jorginho, who is injured, and Andres Salazar, who is serving a suspension for a red card. The visitors' squad is therefore weakened by an injury and a suspension, and the hosts' by Galo's long absence and a few question marks.
Why this rating
Four pillars, each measured against the same league over the last 12 months.
Dramaweight 50%Missed penalty at 28′, open to the end.The result hung in the balance and big moments changed the game.7.3Drama: 7.3 out of 10
Heroesweight 20%Keeper Anarbekov: 7 saves.9.4Heroes: 9.4 out of 10
Stakesweight 15%It mattered for the table but settled nothing.5.3Stakes: 5.3 out of 10
Quality of playweight 15%xG 3.9.8.8Quality of play: 8.8 out of 10
Match ECG
A spike = a twist. The shading = how open the result still was.
Worth watching: Watch it all
GolVolt rating 8.6more watchable than 86% of Conference League matches
4' VAR5'Marc Gual0:1twist12'Salah Oulad1:1twist
0'half-time90+3'
The GolVolt rating comes from four pillars — drama, heroes, stakes and quality of play — measured against this league's matches of the last 12 months (model nap-v2).
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