Gabala – Neftchi – 4:1

Azerbaijan Premier League
Date: Saturday, October 29, 2016
Kick-off: 3:00 P.M. AZT
Venue: Gabala City Stadium
Attendance: 1,500
Referee: Aliyar Aghayev
Assistant referees: Zeynal Zeylanov, Rza Mammadov
Fourth official: Rahil Ramazanov
Additional assistant referees: Rauf Jabbarov, Ravan Hamzazadeh
AFFA delegate: Mubariz Huseynov
Referee observer: Vusal Aliyev
Bookings: Asif Mammadov, 34” (unsporting behavior); Vitaliy Vernydub, 90+1” (unsporting behavior) // Edson Kastilya, 53” (unsporting behavior); Araz Abdullayev, 74” (unsporting behavior)
Goals: Sergei Zenjov, 11”, 59”; Asif Mammadov, 62”; Rashad Eyubov, 77” // Araz Abdullayev, 49”
Stoppage time: First Half: 1 min.; Second Half: 3 min.

Gabala won 4:1 over Neftchi in the next tenth leg of the Azerbaijan Premier League. Roman Grigorchuk’s red-black team started faster. Our early opener was cancelled by Vance Sikov denying Sergei Zenjov before Vitaliy Vernydub missed the target.
Gabala opened scoring in the twelfth minute when Rashad Eyubov’s goalbound shot was denied by the keeper and the returned ball was powered by Zenjov to finish clinically.
Neftchi also gave some troubles to our keeper Dmytro Bezotosniy but both side were unable to change the score up to the half-time.

After the restart, Araz Abdullayev leveled for the white-black team breaking Gabala’s clean-sheet run of the last six home matches. Just ten minutes later, the hosts scored one again with Zenjov’s double converting in a superb pass from Ricardinho. This was the Estonian’s eleventh double for Gabala.

Later on, Filip Ozobic’s pass found  Asif Mammadov to double Gabala’s lead – 3:1 with his eighth goal for the club. Gabala kept up dominating and scored the last goal on the show after a costly error from Neftchi’s Shikov coming one on one with our Eyubov. The latter fired in for his fourth goal at Gabala.
After the final whistle, the red-black squad fortified their place on top with 24 points.

Gabala line-up:

22. Dmytro Bezotosniy
3.  Voislav Stankovic
4. Elvin Jamalov
6. Rasad Sadigov (C)
(14. Javid Huseynov, 61)
9. Sergei Zenjov
(10. Ruslan Gurbanov, 61)
11. Asif Mammadov
(21. Roman Huseynov, 80)
15. Vitaliy Vernydub
19. Filip Ozobic
20. Ricardinho
32. Rashad Eyubov
34. Urfan Abbasov

BENCH: 
33. David Pietrzikevic
13. Murad Musayev
17. Mahammad Mirzabayov
30. Petar  Franyic 
 
COACH: Roman Grigorcuk

Neftchi line-up:

33. Boban Baykovic 
3. Jayro Filyo Rodrigues
6. Vance Sikov
10. Javid Imamverdiyev (C)
17. Rahman Hajiyev
19. Fahmin Muradbayli
(7. Araz Abdullayev, 46)
20. Eltun Yagublu
(22. Mahir Sukurov, 68)
30. Dario Melnyak
80. Edson Kastilya
95. Elvin Badalov
99. Denilson Pereyra
(90. Jonas Pesalli, 64)

BENCH:
1. Krsevan Santini
4. Rahil Mammadov
13. Murad Aghayev
23. Tarzin Jahangirov

COACH: Elkhan Abdullayev