Head coach Roman Grigorchuk tested Gabala against reserve team within the preparation during the break of domestic premier league for the World Cup Qualifying Round. Both squads played in absence of footballers playing for their national teams today.

First Team line-up:
Dmytro Bezotosniy, Ricardinho, Urfan Abbasov, Vojislav Stankovic, Vitaliy Vernydub, Elvin Camalov, Rashad Sadiqov, Cavid Huseynov, Rashad Eyyubov, Filip Ozobic, Baqali Dabo.
Subs:
David Pietrzkievic, Sadig Guliyev, Rafael Santos, Theo Weeks, Rovlan Muradov, Farid Nabiyev, Asif Mammadov, Tellur Mutallimov, Murad Musayev and Petar Franjic.
The first team ended the half on top with five goals after Bagali Dabo’s four and one by Filip Ozobic. The reserve staff could feed back only one with Gadir Bayramly.
After the restart, Theo Weeks scored two more and Tellur Mutallimov shot one. Reserves’ last second goal was scored by Ramil Hasanov and the match ended in 8:2. After the game, the red-black team have been left to rest for a day to start again Tuesday.
Just to remember, Gabala and Zira are in action for the twelfth tour home match fixed to this Saturday, a day after the reserve teams of the clubs face.