Post-Match Statistics: Neftchi 1:3 Gabala / Azerbaijan Cup
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Post-Match Statistics: Neftchi 1:3 Gabala / Azerbaijan Cup

Post-Match Statistics: Neftchi 1:3 Gabala
Azerbaijan Cup, Return Match
Wednesday, April 18, 2018
Bakcell Arena

- Gabala reached to the third cup final tally ever in their history. The record path goes back to the 2013/14 season when we forced off Khazar Lankaran (3:0, 1:1) in the semifinal to face Neftchi. Then the final ended in 1:1 going to penalty shootout with 3:2 in the favour of the team from capital Baku. Following the next in the 2016/17, the red-black team beat Inter Baku (3:1, 2:0) before losing to Qarabagh by 2:0 in the final. Now Gabala are ahead of the next third cup final fixed to May 28 against Keshla.

- Gabala scored their 10th goal in the Azerbaijan Cup as as Bagaliy Dabo scored the second against Neftchi in the return match in the 30th minute of the game last Wednesday. Gabala hit the 100th goal in the 58th cup game, and even went one ahead. All the 101 cup goals include 64 home goals, 36 away and one in neutral pitch.

- Dabo struck his 25th goal for Gabala with the first goal in his 56th appearance for the red-black team. The forward, third top scorer, shot ten in the domestic league and three in Europa League.

- The 58th cup event was written in the record path with 50th conceded goal scored by Neftchi’s Soni Mustivar. After 20 at home, 26 in away and one in a neutral pitch.

- Gabala are sitting seventh among top scoring sides of the tournament with 101 goals following also 50 conceded.

- The last cup win on Neftchi reaches to be the 30th of Gabala, including eighteen at home and twelve in away.

- The red-black team is the eighth side with at least thirty victories.