Match Report
28 points separated the sides: Araz 1st on 69, Qaradağ Lökbatan 9th on 41. Qaradağ Lökbatan had been over-performing their table position on recent form: 2nd in the league over the last five rounds against 9th overall. Against a league average of 1.49 goals per team per game, Qaradağ Lökbatan ran at 1.07 scored and 0.82 conceded, Araz at 2.46 and 0.79.
Defeat had not touched Qaradağ Lökbatan in 5 games. Araz were unbeaten in 10.
The head-to-head ledger counts 9 games: 3 Qaradağ Lökbatan wins, 4 for Araz, 2 draws, at 1.89 goals per meeting. Home advantage is real in this fixture: whoever hosted won 67% of the meetings. The fixture trends low-scoring: over two goals in just 11% of the meetings.
The match was played at Lökbatan OIK stadionu in Lokbatan (capacity 2,000). On the scoreboard, Araz led 2-0 at the break, and no goals arrived after the restart: 0-2 the final score.