Goals: Nika Kvekveskiri, 43’ - Kaleb Ekuban, 45’, Elvin Jamalov, 84’-own goal
Preparing to the second half of the 2016-2017 season in Antalya, Turkey, Roman Grigorchuk’s team lost to Partizani (Albania) in a trial match.

Gabalaline-up:

Dmytro Bezatosny, Roman Huseynov, Voislav Stankovic, Vitaliy Vernydub, Urfan Abbasov, Nika Kvekveskiri, Rashad Sadigov, Araz Abdullayev, Javid Huseynov, Ruslan Gurbanov, Sergei Zenjov.

Gabala made some pulsating efforts against the 15-time champion of Albania in the half and opened the scoring with Kvekveskiri in the 43rd minute. In the last minute of the half, Kaleb Ekuban shot to level.

After the restart, Grigorchuk introduced Ricardinho, Rafael Santos, Tellur Mutallimov, Elvin Jamalov, Rashad Eyyubov, Asif Mammadov and Hajyagha Hajily.

Partizani’s Ardit Yaupay put the Albanian side one ahead on 84 minutes.