Gabala failed to beat Garabagh
Match report / 17 October 2014 | 16:59450
Gabala failed to beat Garabagh

Garabagh  2–0 Gabala

Date: 17 October 2014 / Kick-off: 19:30 / Venue: Tofig Bahramov Stadium / Crowd: 1000  
Referee: Rahim Hasanov   
Referee assistants: Yashar Abbasov, Nahid Aliyev    
4th official: Nail Naghiyev
AFFA member: Mashallah Ahmadov  
Referee inspector:  Mahammad Mammadov
Yellow cards: Rashad Sadigov, 17 (unsporting behavior); Admir Teli, 36 (unsporting behavior); Richard Almeida, 54 (unsporting behavior); Vugar Nadirov, 87 (unsporting behavior) // Elvin Jamalov, 30 (unsporting behavior); Aleksandru Benga, 52 (unsporting behavior); Vidal Kunia Marcus, 82 (unsporting behavior); Mushfig Teymurov, 88 (unsporting behavior); Adrian Ropotan, 90+3 (unsporting behavior)
Goals: Vugar Nadirov, 45+2; Reynaldo Silva, 89-p. 
Extra time: I Part 2 min.; II Part 4 min.

Today Gabala defeated to Garabagh in the 8the tour of the Topaz Premier League with 2:0 in away. After the draw run of the last two games, Gabala were unable to break the Garabagh deadlock, who are the champions of Azerbaijan. 

Dorinel Munteanu, coming on his 10th experience as a head coach for Gabala, made some changes to his starting lineup. Dodo is back to the starting staff after recovering from injury as injured Ruslan Abishov and Ruslan Amirjcanov were unable to make up Gabala”s starting lineup.

The pace of the match started by faster attacks of the home side. They were much close to opening with Javid Taghiyev. But Gabala held on and regained the balance in the show. Then the plan of the visitors was disturbed when Urfan Abbasov got injured and he was replaced by younger player Mushfig Teymurov.

Gabala went close to scoring in the half but their efforts did not worked out with Victor Mendy”s shot was denied by the post before Javid Huseynov fell down in the box and the referee looked as all are OK.

The opener was scored by Vugar Nadirov from the edge of the box just before the half-time – 1:0.

After the restart, Gabala pushed hard to regain the momentum with some changes by Munteanu. Mendy looked close to leveling but his efforts were off the target.

In return the home side doubled their lead as the referee pointed to the spot ordering about foul of Teymurov. Reynaldo”s first shot was not allowed by the referee and the opponent player repeated it in the same way into the same corner to score in the winner.

The result left Gabala with the 3rd loss after 3 victories and 2 draws.

Garabagh lineup:
13. Ibrahim Shehic 
5. Maksim Medvedev
6. Haji Ahmadov
(2. Gara Garayev, 46)
10. Muarem Muarem
14. Rashad Sadigov (c)
17. Vugar Nadirov
20. Richard Almeida
(8. Innosent Emegara, 67)
24. Admir Teli
25. Ansi Agolli
41. Leroy Jorge
(9. Reynaldo Silva, 56)
77. Javid Taghiyev

Subs.:
1. Farhad Valiyev
18. Ilgar Gurbanov
55. Badavi Huseynov
99. Namig Alasgarov 

Head Coach: Gurban Gurbanov

Gabala lineup:
1. Kamran Aghayev (c)
4. Elvin Jamalov
9. Victor Mendy
10. Dodo
(21. Yazalde de Pinto, 82 )
12. Aleksandru Benga
(8. Vidal Kunia Marcus, 60)
14. Javid Huseynov
16. Ruslan Taghizadeh
25. Adrian Ropotan
26. Pavol Farkas
34. Urfan Abbasov
(88. Mushfig Teymurov, 13)
44. Rafael Santos

Subs.:
30. Anar Nazirov
11. Andrei Cristea
5. Sadig Guliyev
90. Ekigo Ehiosun  

Head coach: Dorinel Munteanu