Match Report
27 points separated the sides: Qarabağ 2nd on 40, Standard 3rd on 13. On recent form Standard sat only 18th league-wide over the last five rounds, well short of their 3rd overall. Against a league average of 1.03 goals per team per game, Standard ran at 1.67 scored and 1.11 conceded, Qarabağ at 0.95 and 0.5.
Three consecutive defeats weighed on Standard.
The match was played at Mehdi Hüseynzad? adina stadionu in Sumqayit. On the scoreboard, it was 0-0 at the break; 1 second-half goal set the final 0-1.