Match Report
9 points and 2 places separated them: Qarabağ II 11th with 31, Sumqayıt II 13th with 22. On the form table Sumqayıt II stood 5th over the last five rounds, despite being 13th overall. In league terms the two rates read 1.14/1.39 for Qarabağ II and 1.29/2.14 for Sumqayıt II (scored/conceded per game); the competition average is 1.49.
Sumqayıt II had been beaten in four straight games. The last-five ledger: Qarabağ II 9/15, Sumqayıt II 3/15.
The head-to-head ledger counts 9 games: 4 Qarabağ II wins, 4 for Sumqayıt II, 1 draw, at 2.67 goals per meeting. Hosting has counted for little in this fixture — the home side has won only 33% of those meetings. Goals tend to flow: 67% of the meetings produced three or more, and both sides scored in 56%. Goals have dried up lately: 1.8 per game across the last five meetings, against 2.67 across the full history.
Bakı Olimpiya Stadionu staged the fixture, a ground that holds 5,800. Sumqayıt II led 1-0 at the break — the second half brought no more goals and it finished 0-1.
Goal scorers
Sumqayıt II: R. Abdullazadə (13')