Gabala 1:1 Garabagh
Date: Wednesday, 27 February 2013 / Kick-off: 15:00 / Venue: Gabala City Stadium / Crowd: 1150
Referee: Aliyar Aghayev
Referee assistants: Mehman Mahmudov, Munis Abdullayev
4th official: Elvin Asgarov
AFFA representatives: Asgar Amiraliyev
Referee inspector: Gulagha Jabarov
Yellow cards: Namig Yusifov, 32 (holding possible attack of an opponent)
Goals: Luis Paulo Hilario, 33 // Vugar Nadirov, 56
Extra time: I part - 1 min.; II part - 3 min.
Gabala are struggling against Garabagh in the first leg of the cup quarterfinal amongst top 8 at the table. Our team are pushing on the tally to the semifinal.
Gabala came on the home pitch with not in their best staff as injured Victor Mendy and Aleksandr Chertoganov watched the game on the bench. Today, our starting lineup was two-player different from that against Khazar Lankaran in the last tour of the Premier League. Winter transfer Jeyhun Sultanov with his first in Gabala and Brazilian midfielder, who appeared on his first leg in 2013, replaced both Chertoganov and Romanian Christian Pulhak. And our another midfielder Amit Guluzadeh was helping Jeyhun on the position.
The home side started well but the first threat came from the other end in the 8th minute when Diego Costa gave a great save denying an express telegraph from visitor Afran Ismayilov. Later on, the sides went to backs to the wall display with short attacks at times and defending efforts meantime. But it was Gabala getting in behind the opponents more regularly. It seemed as a matter of time before the 33rd minute when Dodo headed the ball into the net after Daniel Lopez Cruz shot right to the 18-yard box from the left- 1:0. Gabala left the half on top.
After the brake, it appeared to be hard to protect the lead as Diego could not stand against opponent Vugar Nadirov"s shot on 56 minutes. As the game was balanced, Gabala"s head coach Ramiz Mammadov produced Yashar Abuzarov and Christian Pulhak giving more dynamism to the team. Our team seemed more like to score with some efforts at the closing stage. And even in 5 minutes left, Yannick Kamanan shot the ball from Cristian Pulhak on target but the latter was in offside. And the final whistle of Aliyar Aghayev left the sides at peace.
The semifinal side will be appear after the replying match-up to be held on Thursday.
4. Amit Guluzadeh
10. Luis Paulo Hilario
11. Yannick Kamanan
15. Omar Kalabane
22. Lourival Rodrigues
(8. Cristian Pulhak, min.64)
26. Daniel Lopez Cruz
27. Rashad Abdullayev (k)
(23. Shahriyar Khalilov, min.82)
34. Urfan Abbasov
84. Dejan Kelhar
90. Jeyhun Sultanov
(7. Yashar Abuzarov, min.64)
Subs.:
30. Anar Nazirov
3. Vurghun Huseynov
5. Luka Zinko
16. Ifeanyi Emeghara
Coach: Ramiz Mammadov
Garabagh line-up:
89. Miro Varvodich
5. Maksim Medvedev
6. Haji Ahmadov
(2. Gara Garayev, min.54)
7. Namig Yusifov
10. Muarem Muarem
14. Rashad Sadygov (c)
17. Vugar Nadirov
22. Afran Ismayilov
(21. Reinaldo Silva, min.83)
24. Admir Teli
25. Ansi Agolli
70. Vagif Javadov
(55. Badavi Huseynov, min.78)
Subs.:
1. Farhad Valiyev
18. Ilgar Gurbanov
27. Elvin Musazadeh
44. Eltun Yagublu
Coach: Gurban Gurbanov
