UEFA Europa League, Group C, 3rd Tour
Thursday, October 22, 2015
Kick-off: 8:00 P.M. AZST
Gabala – Borussia Dortmund (Germany)
Match Officials:
Referee: Ivan Bebek (Croatia)
Assistant Referees: Tomislav Petrovic, Miro Grgic (both from Croatia)
Additional referee assistants: Marijo Strahonja, Goran Gabrilo (both from Croatia)
4th official: Goran Pataki (Croatia)
UEFA delegate: Philipp Prudon (France)
UEFA observer: Nikolay Levnikov (Russia)
Venue: Bakcell Arena, Baku
Goals: Dodo, 90+3// Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, 31”, 38”, 72”
Bookings: Vojislav Stankovic, 69”, Samir Zargarov, 86”// Sokratis Papastathopoulos, 47”, Sven Bender, 83
Stoppage time: I part- 1 min.; II part- 3 min.

Gabala welcomed Borussia Dortmund in the 3rd tour match of the UEFA EL C group at Bakcell Arena, Baku. The red-black side lost to the German team in 1:3.

The visitors started faster and were all for opening the scoring but it was Gabala setting up very early threats.

First Fakundo Pereyra capitalized on mistake of the Borussia defense to come one on one with the opponent keeper, but he was off the target. Then Rikardinho”s inch-perfect pass found Sergei Zenjov in the box with a poor header.

Later on Matthias Ginter gave a great save to his teammates deflecting the ball by Dodo from the edge of the goal line. The Borussia opponent came under the spotlight in the 10th minute again denying Dodo.

With further minutes into the game, Aubameyang gave trouble to Dmytro Bezotosny finished clear before Arif Dashdamirov deflected the next shot to the Gabala net.

And the opener was scored by Aubameyang in the 31st minute putting the end to Gabala”s cleansheet streak of all UEFA EL home matches.

The French footballer doubled Borussia”s lead cutting through the Gabala defense from the left 7 minutes after his earlier goal – 0:2.

After the half-time, the sides restarted by mutual attacks. Grigorchuk introduced Samir Zargarov but it was Borussia anyway keeping the ball under control.

Bezotosny could deny Hofmann on 70 minutes before his one more save for Gabala deflecting Bender”s good shot from the edge of the box and Aubameyang capitalized on the denied ball to score his 3rd.

And Bezotosny held on against Aubameyang last shot on the show in the 90th minute before Dodo prodded in during the stoppage time – 1:3.
He could register his 29th for Gabala including his second in the group stage.

Gabala lineup:
22. Dmytro Bezotosny
3. Vojislav Stankovic
15. Vitali Vernidub
20. Rikardinho
21. Arif Dashdamirov
10. Dodo (c)
19. Oleksiy Gai
88. Derlis Meza Colli
(6. Rashad Sadigov, 83”)
9. Sergei Zenjov
(7. Ermin Zec, 79”)
32. Fakundo Pereyra
(66. Samir Zargarov, 60”)
69. Oleksiy Antonov
Subs.:
33. David Pietrzkievic
34. Urfan Abbasov
4. Elvin Jamalov
8. Mahammad Mirzabayov
Head coach: Roman Grigorchuk

Borussia Dortmund lineup:

1. Roman Vaydenfeller
3. Jo Ho Park
(29. Marcel schmelzer, 69”)
15. Mats Hummels (c)
(26. Lukas Pisek, 63”)
25. Sokratis Papastathopoulos
28. Mathias Ginter
33. Julian Weigl
7. Jonas Hofmann
8. Ilkay Gundogan
(6. Sven Bender, 63)
11. Marco Reus
23. Shinji Kagawa
17. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang

Subs.:
38. Roman Burki
9. Adnan Januzaj
27. gonzalo Castro
20. Adrian Ramos
Head coach: Thomas Tuchel