Kuzmins scores four in 12 minutes as Beitar Riga win 11:1 in Latvian futsal league
Futsal club Beitar Riga beat Salaspils FA 11:1 in the Latvian Virslīga, with captain Dmitrijs Kuzmins scoring four goals in the last 12 minutes. The team makes its Champions League debut on Wednesday.
In a match of the Latvian futsal Virslīga, the top domestic league, Riga-based Beitar Riga defeated Salaspils FA 11:1 (4:0 at half-time). Team captain Dmitrijs Kuzmins scored four goals in the final 12 minutes, in the 29th, 36th and twice in the 40th minute. The result topped Beitar's earlier run: before the international break the club had won three consecutive games 9:2, and Kuzmins scored a hat-trick in each of them.
Scorers and standings
Besides Kuzmins, goals for Beitar came from Rimkus, Bērziņš, Reuts, Itkačs, Grava, Grīslis and Ģēģers. Stasjonoks scored Salaspils FA's only goal. After five matches Beitar have five wins, a goal difference of 41:7 and 15 points, and lead the table. Kuzmins tops the scorers' list with 14 goals.
Champions League
On Wednesday Beitar make their Champions League debut in Belgium against Almaty's Kairat, and on Thursday they face Anderlecht, represented by Edgars Tarakanovs. The Latvian side entered the competition because Riga broke up. The break-up of Romanian champions Galați United means Beitar are already guaranteed at least third place in their group and a spot in the round of 16.
Other matches
Daugavpils side AVClub beat Nīca/OtankiMill 3:1 despite conceding in the 2nd minute at home, and moved up to second place. It was Nīca's first defeat. The winning goal was scored by 45-year-old player-coach Vadims Atamaņukovs.
Kuldīga's Nikers won 8:1 against Futbola parks academy. Tonijs Moldovāns, 18, who recently received his first call-up to the senior national team, and Ralfs Timbers, also 18, each scored twice. Seven of the eight goals came from players aged 21 or younger. Goalkeeper Artūrs Cīrulis, 26, scored into an empty net early in the second half to make it 5:0 while the opponents were playing with a goalkeeper-player. Futbola parks had two players sent off. Nikers thus recovered from heavy defeats of 2:9 against Beitar and 1:6 in Talsi.
