Gabala 0:1 Neftchi

Date: Sunday, December 13, 2015
Kick-off: 3:30 PM.
Venue: Gabala City Stadium
Crowd: 1,000
Referee: Rahim Hasanov
Assistant referee: Rza Mammadov, Akif Amirali
Fourth official: Zeynal Zeynalov
Additional assistant referees: Aliyar Aghayev, Ravan Hamzazadeh
AFFA delegate: Mashallah Ahmadov
AFFA observer: Rovshan Ahmadov
Bookings: Arif Dashdamirov, 43 (unsporting behavior); Rashad Sadigov, 89 (unsporting behavior) // Ruslan Gurbanov, 37 (protesting against a referee); Filho Jairo Rodrigues, 45+2 (unsporting behavior); Mahammad Gurbanov, 69 (unsporting behavior); Agil Mammadov, 78 (protesting against a referee)
Goal: Filho Jairo Rodrigues, 22”
Stoppage time: 1st Half- 3 min.; 2nd half- 4 min.

Gabala defeated to Neftchi 1:0 in the home match of the 16th tour of the Topaz Premier League.

The pace of the game started by mutual attacks and the first threat came out from the home side with Oleksiy Antonov”s shot flew over the woodwork in the 14th minute. Later on, Rashad Sadigov seized on the opponent keeper”s mistake to telegraph to Dodo coming one on one with the keeper, but the Gabala captain failed to finish.

Neftchi opened the scoring with Rahman Hajiyev”s free-kick from the left found Jayro converting in by a header. The goal prompted Gabala to set a quick attack that led to gaining a free-kick in the right before Derlis Meza Colli”s long drive went off the target.

Roman Grigorchuk made some changes in the Gabala staff introducing Ricardinho and Asif Mammadov for the 2nd period. After the change, the red-black side looked stepping up their inroads into the Neftchi defense and at times Ricardinho”s cross found Antonov, who made a poor header.

Gabala”s leveler was cancelled once again when Rashad Sadigov went too close to scoring before Kamal Gurbanov denied him. The Neftchi keeper gave another save to his teammates converting out Ricardinho”s 25-meter shot on 81 minutes.

Although the hosts pushed harder to leveling, they were unable to score in the minutes left.

Gabala lineup:

1. Andrey Popovich
3. Vojislav Stankovic
6. Rashad Sadigov
8. Mahammad Mirzabayov
10. Dodo (c)
19. Oleksiy Gai
(32. Facundo Pereyra, 79”)
21. Arif Dashdamirov
(11. Asif Mammadov, 58)
25. Gismat Aliyev
44. Rafael Santos
69. Oleksiy Antonov
88. Derlis Meza Colli
(20. Ricardinho, 46)

Subs.:
33. David Pietrzkevic
15. Vitaliy Vernydub
18. Vadim Abdullayev
34. Urfan Abbasov
Head coach: Roman Grigorchuk

Neftchi lineup:
1. Agil Mammadov (c)
3. Filho Jairo Rodrigues
5. Juan Alberto Andreu Alvarado
6. Aylton Silva
26. Kamal Gurbanov
11. Ruslan Gurbanov
15. Erik Ramos
17. Rahman Hajiyev
(16. Aziz Guliyev, 89”)
19. Fahmin Muradbayli
18. Caue Cecilio da Silva
14. Mahammad Gurbanov
(7. Araz Abdullayev, 77)

Subs.:
24. Michal Peskovic
4. Rahil Mammadov
21. Samir Masimov
20. Antonio Salas Quinta
95. Elvin Badalov

Head coach: Asgar Abdullayev