A valuable point was won by the national football team of Latvia in a difficult game in the Faroe Islands, which after a dull sixty minutes, with the involvement of young players, was able to achieve a breakthrough in the course of the battle and at the end of it was close to winning. A 1-1 draw before the final two rounds in the UEFA Nations League allows them to claim second place and a play-off for promotion to League B, but also beware of followers in the battle to stay in League C. The decisive action in November.
Roberts Uldriķis took the place of Vladislavs Gutkovskis, who was injured in the previous game, at the top of the attack, but after the return of Roberts Savalnieks on the right wing, Raivis Andris Jurkovskis joined the trio of central defenders instead of Vitalijas Jagodinskis. It was hardly a change in the composition, due to which the Latvian footballers showed one of the weakest performances so far under the leadership of coach Nikolato in the first sixty minutes of the game. “At home, they are a completely different team, stronger,” the Italian specialist warned before the match. At home, the Fēri team was in the lead and took away points from the two leading teams of the C4 group, North Macedonia (1:1) and Armenia (2:2), but on Sunday evening it was Latvia’s turn as well. The conditions on the artificial surface in near-zero air temperature Torsvollur made even more unpleasant by strong gusts of wind, in which the home team felt so good that they confidently controlled both the ball and the events on the field in the first half of the game. “We started the game without aggression and without a fight. We didn’t have the ball at all,” said Andrejs Cigaņiks in a post-match interview on Latvian Television. He pointed out that in such a game, he and other team leaders have limited opportunities to help the team achieve a favorable result.
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