Gabala – Zira – 0:0

Date: Sunday, 25 October 2015
Kick-off: 17:00 P.M. AZST
Venue: Gabala City Stadium,
Crowd: 1,100
Referee: Elvin Asgarov
Assistant referees: Isgandar Aliyev, Munis Abdullayev
Fourth official: Ziya Nasirov
AFFA delegate: Mammadali Mammadov
AFFA referee observer: Mahammad Mammadov
Bookings: Ruslan Abishov, 55” (unsporting behavior); Urfan Abbasov, 64” (unsporting behavior) // Nelson Bonilla, 90” (delay of restart); Anar Nazirov, 90+1 (delay of restart)
Stoppage time: 1st Half - 0.; 2nd Half- 4 min.

Gabala played against Zira in a goalless draw in the last 9th tour of the Topaz Premier League 1st round.

The pace of the home match started by mutual attacks. Samir Zargarov looked very close to setting up Gabala”s early threat but he failed at the other end.

It was difficult to make occasion also to the team from capital Baku. Just before the half-time, they could set their only threat absorbed by the Gabala defense.

It was the home side being faster after the restart that seemed as a matter of time before 3 occasions when the Zira keeper came out of the box to deny Antonov. Then Anar Nazirov deflected also Ruslan Abishov”s 20-meter shot before his 3rd save to Zira capitalizing on the Gabala defender”s free-kick.

Later on Gabala stepped up their attacks on some occasion failed to be finished by Antonov.

Then Bezotosny went out to deny Bonilla giving a great save to the red-black side before Mahammad Mirzabayov also failed to score from a promising position.

The result of the game put the end to Gabala”s scoring run of the last 21 league games, as well as 4-match winning streak. But it is also the 5th game that Roman Grigorchuk”s side have been keeping up their net clear with Bezotosny who reached his clear experience up to the 637th.

Gabala lineup:

22. Dmytro Bezotosny
3. Vojislav Stankovic
(6. Rashad Sadigov, 80”)
4. Elvin Jamalov
9. Sergei Zenjov
10. Dodo (c)
19. Oleksiy Gai
21. Arif Dashdamirov
34. Urfan Abbasov
(8. Mahammad Mirzabayov, 65)
66. Samir Zargarov
(7. Ermin Zec, 82)
69. Oleksiy Antonov
87. Ruslan Abishov

Subs:

1. Andrey Popovic
15. Vitali Vernidub
25. Gismat Aliyev
70. Vagif Javadov

Head coach: Roman Grigorchuk

Zira line-up:

1. Anar Nazirov
39. Sadiq Guliyev
37. Jovan Krneta
13. Aleksandr Shemonayev (c)
5. Adil Naghiyev
2. Chimezie Mbah
8. Tarzin Jahangirov
(33. Diego Souza, 66)
32. Luis Alberto Diez
7. Rihairo
(28. Tamkin Khalilzadeh, 63)
10. Igor Ivanovic
(17. Nijat Gurbanov, 78)
9. Nelson Bonilla

Subs.:

85. Kamal Bayramov
6. Haji Ahmadov
14. Tellur Mutallimov
70. Mirkamil Hashimli

Head coach: Adil Shukurov