Article from balticleague.com

FK Rīga gave a decent performance against IF Elfsborg but failed to score in the return leg which sent the Swedish side through to UEFA Cup second qualifying round.

Having lost the first leg away 0:1 FK Rīga was under pressure to make a good result at home. The Latvian club had to change their coach between the two legs when Genadijs Morozovs decided to leave, which left assistant Andrey Manannikov as a caretaker.

Andrei Agafonov and Grigori Chirkin had good chances to put the home side ahead just before the end of the first half, but did not make the most of them. The second half was controlled already by the Swedes and after defender Dimitrijs Halvitovs got his second yellow card six minutes from time everything became clear.

The match ended with a goalless draw which sent Elfsborg through with the aggregate score of 1:0.

FK Rīga - IF Elfsborg 0:0 (0:1 on aggregate)

Yellow cards: 34' Grigori Chirkin, 45' Dimitrijs Halvitovs, 54' Martin Andersson, 84' Daniel Mobäck, 84' Dimitrijs Halvitovs
Red card: 84' Dimitrijs Halvitovs

FK Rīga: 1 Sergejs Čepčugovs: 8 Jevgeni Novikov, 19 Mindaugas Kalonas, 18 Igors Korablovs, 33 Vladimirs Žavoronkovs, 3 Aleksandrs Lasko, 14 Gints Freimanis, 17 Dimitrijs Halvitovs, 13 Andrei Agafonov, 9 Grigori Chirkin, 15 Valērijs Ļeonovs (-79’).
Substitutes: 24 Antons Trifonovs, 10 Aleksejs Kolesnikovs, 6 Olegs Zatkins (+79’), 11 Guntars Silagailis, 2 Stanislavs Pihockis.
Coach: Andrey Manannikov

Elfsborg: 30 Johan Wiland, 9 Lars Nilsson (-78’), 6 Helgi Valur Daníelsson (-20’), 22 Andreas Augustsson, 24 Stefan Ishizaki, 10 Denni Avdic, 8 Anders Svensson (-43’), 5 Martin Andersson, 2 Mathias Florén, 4 Johan Karlsson, 11 Daniel Mobäck.
Substitutes: 1 Abbas Hassan, 14 Jesper Floren, 12 Joakim Sjöhage (+78’), 15 Teddy Lucic, 16 Daniel Nordmark, 20 Emir Bajrami (+43’), 25 Elmin Kurbegovic (+20’).
Coach: Magnus Haglund

Referee: Aleksei Nikolaev (RUS)
Assistant referee: Ilia Barychnikov (RUS), Vitali Drozdov (RUS)
Fourth official: Haralds Gudermanis (LVA)
UEFA Delegate: Stanislaw Speczik (POL)
UEFA Referee observer: Andreas Schluchter (SUI)

 More info about Latvian clubs in UEFA Eurocups here:
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