SC Gabala, sitting 4th on the Azerbaijan Premier League table after 18 tours, reveals the its review for the first half of the 2015/2016 season:

Gabala”s first-leg match of the season was held on August 10 to battle all the way through 2 rounds of the league over 132 days up to the last game of the year on December 19.

10.08.2015. Gabala - Qarabagh (Aghdam) - 2:2
15.08.2015. AZAL (Baku) - Gabala - 0:2
23.08.2015. Gabala - Kapaz (Ganja) - 1:0
12.09.2015. Inter (Baku) - Gabala - 2:1
21.09.2015. Gabala - Sumgayit - 1:0
25.09.2015. Ravan (Baku) - Gabala - 0:3
04.10.2015. Gabala - Khazar Lankaran - 6:0
17.10.2015. Neftchi (Baku) - Gabala - 0:1
25.10.2015. Gabala - Zira (Baku) - 0:0
28.10.2015. Gabala - AZAL (Baku) - 0:0
01.11.2015. Gabala - Kapaz (Ganja) - 1:2
09.11.2015. Gabala - Inter (Baku) - 1:1
21.11.2015. Sumgayit - Gabala - 2:2
30.11.2015. Gabala - Ravan (Baku) - 1:1
06.12.2015. Khazar Lankaran - Gabala - 0:1
13.12.2015. Gabala - Neftchi (Baku) - 0:1
16.12.2015. Zira - Gabala - 1:0
19.12.2015. Qarabagh (Aghdam) - Gabala - 1:1

Games, Opponents:

* Gabala”s all 18 matches include 7 wins, 7 draws and 4 losses. With all 10 home events, the red-black side took 3 victories, 5 draws and lost 2 games. Another 14 points were gained by 8 away games including 4 wins, 2 draws and 2 losses.

* Gabala earned 4 victories on the trot in the 5th to 8th tours, and were unable to win in the 9th to 14th tours.

* Roman Grigorchuk”s side played in 3 draws in a row with the 12th to 14th tours. The team also run through 7 matches with no draws within the 2nd to 8th tours.

* Gabala held on unbeaten for 6 matches of the 5th to 10th tours, also lost 2 games in the 16th and 17th tours.

* Gabala gained 6 points that is more than their other opponents: Ravan, Sumgayit, AZAL (with 4 points on all), Neftchi and Kapaz (3 points on both), Qarabagh (2 points), “İnter” and “Zira” (1 point).

Goals Statistics:

* Gabala scored 24 in their all 18 appearances (with 1,333 in average of all) and conceded 13 (0,722).

* Gabala scored 13 goals at home (1,300), and conceded 7 (0,700) while scored 11 in away (1,375) and allowed 6 (0,750).

* The red-black squad could keep up scoring in early 8 games before goalless run in the 9th to 10th and 16th to 17th tours.

* Gabala held on clear in 6 events of the 5th-10th tours before conceding in the 11th-14th tours.

* With the exception of the 4th tour, Dmytro Bezotosny kept his net clear in over the 2nd to 10th tours during 729 minutes. The Gabala keeper could hit the 2nd place for the club, as well as 14th in all Azerbaijan topflight championships, leaving behind the barrier of 660 minutes for getting foothold in the world record list of IFFHS.

* Gabala could score against all their opponents, including “Khazar Lankaran” and Ravan with 7 and 4 goals respectively.

* Gabala scored 11 in 1st half periods and 13 after restarts. They also conceded 7 in half and 6 in 2nd periods.

* Oleksiy Antonov scored 6 goals as more than any other 6 players: Oleksiy Gai and Facundo Pereyra (both with 4), Ermin Zec and Samir Zargarov (both with 3), Dodo (2), and Sergai Zenjov (1). There is also one own goal by Jamil Hajiyev of FC Sumgayit.

* Gabala”s 3 penalties ended in 2 goals by Oleksiy Gai as Dodo was off the target.

* Dmytro Bezotosny conceded the only penalty against Gabala.

* Three keepers came on the pitch for Gabala. Andrey Popoviç allowed 8 goals as Dmytro Bezotosny and David Pietrzkievic allwed, respectively, 4 and 1 goals.

* Facundo Pereyra could score the only double for Gabala during the half of the season.

Some more Details:

* Gabala take on 18 tours under guidance of 4 captains: Dodo (with 13 matches), Oleksiy Gai (3), Rashad Sadiqov and Urfan Abbasov (both with 1 match).

* Gabala”s all home matches were supported by 13,650 viewers, including the most crowd with 3,200 for the first-leg game of the season.

* The red-black side took 2 high-scoring victories beating Ravan by 3 goals in the 6th tour before the next game where they defeated Khazar Lankaran with 6 goals, both as clean-sheet wins.

* Grigorchuk introduced 26 players in the 18 tours. Only Oleksiy Gai and Oleksiy Antonov appeared in all these.

* 15 of all the 26 came on more than half of 18 games.

* Gabala players picked up 34 yellow cards, and Rashad Sadiqov was shown the only red card of the season half.

* 15 footballers picked up yellow: Elvin Jamalov (5), Arif Dashdamirov (4).