Rigas FS II hosted Alberts in the 1. liga's Regular Season round 17 on 22 August, and the visitors took all three points with a 1-3 win. The result keeps the fifth-placed side comfortably clear of trouble while the hosts remain rooted in 11th.
Alberts started brighter, taking the lead after ten minutes through K. Maksimovs. To be fair, they added a second shortly after when K. Kirsanovs found the net in the nineteenth. Rigas FS II had not yet responded, and the early pattern suggested the visitors would control the tempo.
The hosts pulled one back before half-time, with K. Pirktins scoring in the fifty-fourth minute. That gave a brief sense of momentum, but Alberts settled things at the other end when D. Indrans added a fourth goal in the seventieth. By then the outcome was clear.
Rigas FS II sit on eighteen points from eighteen matches, with three wins and three draws against twelve losses. Alberts occupy fifth place on thirty-four points, ten ahead of the mid-table pack and only four off the top two.
What matters here is not the scoreline but the pattern: Alberts can raise the tempo when they need to, and Rigas FS II still have work to do before they can threaten consistently. The gap between fifth and eleventh is now wide enough to matter.