Pafos — Riga 1:1, 22 October: match result

match finished UEFA Conference League · Matchday 2 Thursday 22 October · 16:45 UTC

Pafos 27th · 1 pts LDLWD

1 : 1 1st half 0:0

Riga 21th · 2 pts DDDWD

Alphamega Stadium · referee M. Barbu

Match predictionValue

The sides will not reach five goals

89% · Under 2.5 goals in 5 of 8 Riga games

Prediction landed. We predicted “The sides will not reach five goals”, and the match finished 1:1.

the market is chosen by our model: not always the obvious one, but a likely one

our forecast this is how the model saw the match before kick-off

Pafos 36% draw 25% Riga 39%

The model was wrong

The most likely outcome was Riga win, and the match finished 1:1. Fans backed Riga win — they got it wrong.

fans 63 votes

Pafos 36% draw 14% Riga 50%

Voting closed at kick-off

Match events

full timeline

I. Sunjic for A. Brito 46'

I. Sunjic 49'

D. Quina for J. Correia 61'

Lele for Anderson Silva 65'

Caio Ferreira for M. Diop 66'

M. Badamosi for Reginaldo Ramires 66'

Caio Ferreira assist: S. Oulad M'Hand 0-1 67'

K. Sema for Guga 71'

Biel assist: K. Sema 1-1 76'

A. Cernomordijs for R. Aouani 78'

K. Sema 87'

C. Saco for S. Oulad M'Hand 88'

M. Tonisevs 90'

Line-ups

starting eleven and bench

Pafos 4-3-3 4-3-1-2 Riga

Radosław Majecki  
Bruno  3 Samy Mmaee  4 David Luiz  14 Nikolas Ioannou  
Vlad Dragomir  50 Alexandre Brito  6 Guga  
João Correia  33 Anderson Silva  20 Biel  

Reginaldo Ramires  18 Salah Oulad M'Hand  
Iago Siqueira Augusto  
Meïssa Diop  40 Ahmed Ankrah  7 Raki Aouani  
Maksims Tonisevs  21 Baba Musah  5 Karl Gameni Wassom  13 Raivis Jurkovskis  
Kenan Pirić  

Pafos bench

60Christos Evzonas
8Domingos Quina
26Ivan Šunjić
12Ken Sema
72Kosmas Ioannou
18Lelê
71Michalis Papastylianou
82Petros Petrou

Riga bench

25Abdulrahman Taiwo
34Antonijs Černomordijs
11Caio Ferreira
6Coli Saco
91Frenks Orols
44Marcis Kazainis
19Muhammed Badamosi
15Samuel Pedro

Match stats

20 metrics for the full match

51%Possession49%

17Shots16

4Shots on target3

9Shots off target9

4Blocked shots4

9Shots inside box11

8Shots outside box5

94Attacks98

50Dangerous attacks43

10Corners4

0Offsides1

9Fouls16

2Yellow cards1

2Saves3

402Passes389

330Accurate passes334

0Free kicks0

0Throw-ins0

0Goal kicks0

0Penalties0

Pafos

RigaThe source gives no per-half split — only totals for the match

How the match went

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Pafos and Riga met on matchday 2 of the UEFA Conference League on 22 October at Alphamega Stadium. Final score — 1:1.

Pafos sit 27th on 1 point after 5 matches (1 win, 2 draws, 2 losses), winless in 3 matches. Riga sit 21th on 2 points after 9 matches (4 wins, 5 draws, 0 losses), unbeaten in 9 matches.