Match Report
4th against 2nd, but level on points: Azerbaijan and Lithuania both had 4. Lithuania had been under-performing their position — 40th on five-round form against 2nd in the table. Per game in the league, Azerbaijan were scoring 1.5 and conceding 1, Lithuania 0.5 and 0, against a competition average of 1.26 goals per team per game.
Lithuania arrived off five straight defeats. The five-game form split read 8/15 points for Azerbaijan against 0/15 for Lithuania.
Bakı Olimpiya Stadionu in Baku staged the fixture, a ground that holds 69,000. On the scoreboard, it was 0-0 at the break, and no goals arrived after the restart: 0-0 the final score.