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Zira are the guests at Kapital Bank Arena on Friday for the Premyer Liqasi meeting with hosts Sumgayit.
Our tips, poll and stats for Sumgayit v Zira can all be found here (plus the best game odds).
📊 Form Guide
Sumgayit
LLWLWD
Sumgayit head into this fixture after a 1-1 Premyer Liqasi drawn match against Neftçi.
Yuri Matias (13' Own goal) and Emin Mahmudov (74') scored for Neftçi.
In their past six fixtures, Aykhan Abbasov's Sumgayit have found the net a total of 5 times, an average number of goals per match of 0.83.
Zira
WDLWWW 📈
Zira head into the meeting following on from a 4-0 Premyer Liqasi win with the downing of Gabala in their last game.
For Zira, the goals were scored by Rəhim Sadıxov (4'), Raphael Alemão (25') and Ceyhun Nuriyev (28').
Over the course of their last 6 clashes, Zira have bagged the sum of 12 goals. Zira have also not failed to score in every single one of those games. During that period, they have seen 5 goals scored by their opponents. That trend might not be sustained here, of course.
↔️ Head to head
A study of their past head to head meetings stretching back to 22/10/2022 shows that these encounters have been pretty painful for Sumgayit. They have not been able to register any wins at all whereas Zira have just been too good for them, beating them in 67 per cent of those games where they have faced each other.
In all, 10 goals were yielded between them during those clashes, with 1 of them for Sumgayit and 9 coming from Qartallar. That’s an average goals per game figure of 1.67.
The previous league contest featuring the two was Premyer Liqasi match day 22 on 13/02/2024 which ended up with the score at Zira 0-0 Sumgayit.
📰 Team News: Sumgayit
Kamran Quliyev (unknown injury) and Kristijan Velinovski (unknown injury) are not available for Sumgayit gaffer Aykhan Abbasov.
📰 Team News: Zira
Zira has a number of players out of action. Maqsad Isayev (unknown injury) and Filipe Pachtmann (unknown injury) will miss out on this game.
⚡ Prediction
We’re envisaging that Sumgayit will do well to score against this Zira outfit who we think might win and very possibly keep a clean sheet.
We’re therefore tipping a hard-fought 0-1 advantage for Zira at the conclusion of the game.
A close call.
Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.
Victor Martins, 14:11 12/04/2024
⚽️ Team Focus:
Sumgayit
Formed: 2010
Stadium: Kapital Bank Arena (3,200)
Captain: Vurğun Hüseynov
Chairman: Riad Rafiyev
Manager: Aykhan Abbasov
Competitions: Premyer Liqasi position 4
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29 | 23 | 3 | 3 | 55 | 72 | WWWWW |
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29 | 12 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 45 | DLWWW |
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29 | 12 | 8 | 9 | 6 | 44 | LDWWD |
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29 | 11 | 10 | 8 | -5 | 43 | LWLWD |
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29 | 11 | 7 | 11 | 4 | 40 | WWWLL |
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29 | 10 | 9 | 10 | 5 | 39 | DWLDW |
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29 | 10 | 8 | 11 | -4 | 38 | WLLDL |
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29 | 8 | 8 | 13 | -11 | 32 | LLDLL |
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29 | 8 | 6 | 15 | -22 | 30 | WDLLW |
10 |
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29 | 4 | 4 | 21 | -36 | 16 | LLDLL |
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