Anderlecht 3:1 Gabala
News / 15 September 2016 | 19:34268
Anderlecht 3:1 Gabala
UEFA Europa League, Group C, First Leg
Date: Thursday, September 15th, 2016
Kick-off: 9:00 P.M. AZT
Venue: Constant Vanden Stock Stadium, Brussels, Belgium
Referee: Harald Lechner (Austria)
Assistant referees: Maximilian Kolbitsch (Austria), Andreas Heidenreich (Austria)
Additional assistant referees: Markus Hameter (Austria), Alexander Harkam (Austria)
Fourth official: Andreas Staudinger (Austria)
Referee observer: Luciano Luci (Italy)
UEFA delegate: Emil Ubias (Czech)
Goals: Lukasz Teodorczyk, 14, Rafael Santos, 41” – own goal, Diego Capel, 77” // Bagali Dabo, 20”
Bookings: Uros Spajic, 56 // Ricardinho, 81, Asif Mammadov, 83”
Stoppage time: 1st Half: 1 min.; 2nd Half: 3 min.
Gabala lost 3:1 to Anderlecht (Belgium) in the Group C of the UEFA EL. This was the first leg of the Roman Grigorchuk side in their second successive experience of the group stage.
The home side started faster and the visitors pushed hard to absorb the pressure. With the further minutes into the game, Gabala got foothold in the proceedings and drew attention with counter attacks that seemed as a matter of time before Bagali Dabo missed his chance after coming very close to be one on one with the keeper.
Then Anderlecht opened the scoring when Sofian Hanni let the ball from Uros Spajic in the right meet Lukas Teodorczyk and the Poland fired in.
But the Belgian side could lap up for plaudits not for a long time as the red-black team fed back when Filip Ozobich failed to convert a pass from Ruslan Abishov into the goal and the returned ball found Dabo. The latter finished clinically – 1:1. Later on, the French player went too close to his double but he missed the target.
After leveling, the hosts looked unable to set up more threats and Gabala well worked into the home defense. But Anderlecht”s forward line popped up by counter attack surging up the field and Gabala”s Rafael Santos trying to pin into opponent exchange scored own goal.
After the interval, the Belgian team kept up the lead but Teodorczyk and Anni failed to hit the target from promising positions.
At times, Ozobic”s powerful shot past inches wide. And Bezotosniy gave some great saves to his teammates denying Stancu and Kipcu.
Another pulsating moment came up in the 74th minute when the Belgian side went close again to be one on one with the Ukrainian keeper, but an opponent footballer saw his effort cleared off.
And the hosts scored the third after Stancu cut through our defense and his cross found Diego Kapel shot in the wide open goal.
Right after the goal, Santos tried to make amend for his earlier error but his effort fizzed just wide of the post.
In the stoppage time, Dabo could have minimize the goal difference but he failed to come one on one with the keeper pounced on a loos ball.
Anderlecht line-up:
1 Davy Roef (GK)
4. Serigne Mbodji
5. Uros Spajic
11. Alexandru Chipciu
14. Bram Nuytinck
18. Frank Acheampong
31. Youri Tielemans
32. Leander Dendoncker
73. Nicolae Stanciu
91. Lukasz Teodorczyk
94. Sofiane Hanni (C)
BENCH:
3. Olivier Deschacht
8. Stephane Badji
9. Hamdi Harbaoui
17. Diego Capel
22. Idrissa Doumbia
23. Frank Boeckx
41. Emmanuel Adjey Sowah
COACH: Rene Weiler
Gabala line-up:
22. Dmytro Bezotosniy
3. Vojislav Stankovic
6. Rashad Sadygov (C)
9. Sergei Zenjov
(32. Rashad Eyyubov, 90+3)
10. Ruslan Gurbanov
(11. Asif Mammadov, 46)
15. Vitaliy Vernydub
(30. Petar Franyic, 59)
17. Mahammad Mirzabayov
18. Bagali Dabo
19. Filip Ozobic
20. Ricardinho
44. Rafael Santos
BENCH:
33. David Pietrzikevic
13. Murad Musayev
34. Urfan Abbasov
88. Tellur Mutallimov
COACH: Roman Grigorchuk
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