BFC Daugavpils vs FK Auda Prediction 28.05.2024

• Competition: Latvia - Virsliga
• Date: Tuesday, 28th, May 2024
• Kickoff: 17:00 UTC +1 / 18.00 CEST
• Venue: Celtnieks Stadium (Daugavpils)

The Celtnieks Stadium will be the venue as BFC Daugavpils takes on FK Auda on Tuesday for the 16th Gameweek of the Latvian Virsliga campaign.

BFC Daugavpils vs FK Auda Betting Tips: 1X (DOUBLE CHANCE)

In their 14 years of existence, Daugavpils are experiencing their best-ever start to the season, as their brilliant haul of 27 points from 15 outings puts them in a lofty third, and if they can maintain this level of form in the second half of the campaign, the European finish smiles at them.

A testament to Oleksandr Horshkov's dream start lies in the fact that they have already notched up eight triumphs on their tally to date, a feat they simply failed to achieve in a full 34-game stretch in any of their previous seasons competing in the Latvian top tier.

The White and Blues, though, come into Tuesday's fixture off the back of successive scoreless defeats against RFS and Riga, but this should not discourage them, given these are currently the best two clubs in the country, so they will now look to end this dry spell.

Returning home presents optimistic prospects for shaking off those mentioned setbacks, as five of BFC Daugavpils' eight successes this term have come precisely at Celtnieks, while a goal differenceof 15-5 demonstrates their proficiency at both ends of their pitch.

Their next challenge comes in the form of FK Auda, a team that finished third last year but finds themselves well below their best form in 2024, having amassed a mere 16 points from 15 top-flight matches, placing them squarely in the middle of the 12-team standings.

However, it's the recent string of results that is much more worrisome than the overall record so far, as the club based in Kekava finds themselves stuck in a rut they can't seem to break out of, having failed to defeat any opposition in their last six consecutive matches (D2 L4).

Rather than using the encounters against the two weakest teams to boost morale and form, Filipe Almeida's team plunged even deeper into misery, as they were held to a 1-1 draw by rock-bottom FK Liepaja before being shocked 1-0 by second-bottom Jelgava.

Taking into account FK Auda's complete lack of direction and their dismal away form so far this season, with just one victory from their first eight trips, we see Daugavpils as having an ideal chance to exploit their rival's woes and return to the path of victory.