📊 Form Guide

Gabala

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Gabala head into this match after a 1-1 Premyer Liqasi tied result vs Araz-Naxçıvan.

The only name on the scoresheet from Gabala was Osama Khalaila (67'). Numan Kurdić (42') scored for Araz-Naxçıvan.

Fixtures featuring Gabala have often been entertaining encounters lately with a lot of goalmouth action expected. Over their past six games alone, the sum total of 20 goals have flown in for both teams combined (at an average of 3.33 goals per game) with 6 of these being chalked up by Gabala. That pattern might not be continued into this next game, however.

Neftçi

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Neftçi will go into the encounter following a 3-0 Premyer Liqasi win in the defeat of Səbail in their last game.

For Neftçi, goals were scored by Azər Salahlı (27') and Egor Bogomolskiy (85'). Nir Bardea (23' Own goal) scored for Səbail.

Samir Abbasov's Neftçi have managed to stick the ball in the net 9 times throughout their most recent 6 matches. The total of goals that have been scored against them during those matches adds up to 9.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Looking over their past head to head meetings stretching back to 12/11/2022 shows us that Gabala have won 1 of these games and Neftçi 4, with the tally of drawn matches standing at 1.

13 goals were shared by the two clubs throughout the course of those matches, with 3 of them from Dağ canavarı and 10 netted by Neftçilər. The average number of goals per game works out to 2.17.

The previous league fixture between these clubs was Premyer Liqasi match day 20 on 28/01/2024 which finished with the scoreline of Neftçi 3-1 Gabala.

📋 Team News: Gabala

The Gabala manager Elmar Bakhshiyev will be grateful not to have any fitness worries at all before this match with a completely injury-free group to choose from. Suspended players who are serving a ban for this game are Bilel Aouacheria and Ilkin Qyrtymov.

📰 Team News: Neftçi

Neftçi boss Samir Abbasov has to choose from a squad that has some fitness concerns. Emil Balayev (Achilles tendon rupture), Ataa Jaber (unknown injury), Brayan Moreno (unknown injury) and Azer Aliyev (unknown injury) are names that won’t be on the team sheet. Eddy Israfilov will not be able to play in this game through being suspended.

🔮 Prediction

For this match, we think that Gabala will likely be able to score a goal against this Neftçi lineup, however a single goal might not be as many as they’ll concede.

Therefore, we’re predicting both teams to score in a 1-2 winning margin for Neftçi after the 90. Looking forward to this.

Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Victor Martins, 12:11 29/03/2024