Match Report
On the table this was a mismatch: Ahal (2nd, 42 pts) held a 27-point advantage over Aşgabat (7th, 15 pts). Per game in the league, Aşgabat were scoring 1.24 and conceding 2.24, Ahal 2.2 and 1.1, against a competition average of 1.65 goals per team per game.
Aşgabat had gone 8 games without a win. The five-game form split read 2/15 points for Aşgabat against 9/15 for Ahal.
The head-to-head ledger counts 13 games: 1 Aşgabat win, 9 for Ahal, 3 draws, at 3.08 goals per meeting. History gives the home side just 38% of the wins in this matchup. Three-plus goals is the norm here, arriving in 77% of the meetings, and both sides scored in 62%.
Half-time and full-time told different stories: it was 0-0 at the break, before 7 more goals closed it at 3-4.