Jagu Sikeira scored from about 25 metres in the 66th minute as Riga beat Liepāja 1-0 in the final match of Virslīga round 10, turning a mistaken pass in Liepāja's half into the match-winner.
The sequence began when Abioduns Ogunniji misplayed a pass in Liepāja's half, a ball that reached Salāhs Ulads and left space for Sikeira to pick his spot from distance; the finish was the only goal of the game and the decisive moment of the evening.
The numbers underline the result: 1-0, 66th minute, roughly 25 metres. Sikeira’s goal gave Riga four wins in its last five matches and handed the club revenge for a 2-1 loss to Liepāja in the first round of the 2026 season, which until Saturday had been Riga’s only defeat of 2026.
Sikeira now has six goals for Riga, all scored across three matches — a hat-trick against Jelgava, two goals against Grobiņa and the solitary strike that beat Liepāja — making him the club’s second-best scorer behind Muhammed Badamosi.
For riga fc, the timing and concentration of Sikeira’s scoring matters as much as the total. The six goals are not spread through the campaign but delivered in bursts that have altered results quickly; those bursts include a run that helped produce four wins from five league outings and one high-scoring draw, a 3-3 meeting with RFS, among that recent sequence.
Tension in the match came early for Liepāja. Vjačeslavs Isajevs, making his first start of the new season, left the field injured in the 23rd minute, forcing an early reshuffle that deprived Liepāja of a planned defensive option and may have influenced the balance in midfield and on the flanks.
There is a contrast at the heart of the story: Liepāja had already beaten Riga 2-1 in the season opener, and yet a single turnover in their own half — the misdirected pass by Ogunniji that fell to Ulads — provided the opening for Sikeira’s long-range finish. That mismatch between earlier outcomes and Saturday’s decisive error turned what could have been a rematch into an avenging victory for Riga.
Riga’s win is a clear turning point in the campaign. The club has erased the blemish of its only 2026 defeat and heads into the next round carrying momentum, driven by a forward whose scoring has come in explosive clusters rather than steady trickles. If anything about this match is evident, it is that Sikeira’s concentrated hot streak has been the margin between a clear run of results and the lingering doubt left by the opening-round loss.
