Mainz 05 (Germany) 2:0 Gabala
UEFA Europa League / Group C / 6th Tour
Date: Thursday, December 8, 2016
Kick-off: 10:00 P.M. AZT
Venue: Mainz Arena
Referee: Lee Evans (WAL)
Assistant referees: Gareth Wyn Jones (WAL), Lewiss Edwards (WAL)
Additional assistant referees: Bryn Markham-Jones (WAL), Nick Pratt (WAL)
Fourth official: Daniel Beckett (WAL)
Referee observer: Are Habis (EST)
UEFA delegate: Imon Naughton (IRL)
Goals: Pablo De Blasis, 30', Alexander Hack, 40'
Yellow cards: Gaetan Bussmann, 65', Jairo Samperio, 76'
Stoppage time: First Half: 1 m.; Second Half: 3 m.

Gabala lost to Mainz 05 2:0 in the sixth tour of the UEFA Europa League’s Group C. The Bundesliga side started faster and took the lead from early minutes. But Roman Grigorchuk’s defensive line held on clear for a long time. When the German team could cut the back lines of Gabala, our keeper Dmytro Bezotosniy gave a great save to his teammates.

Mainz reached to opening the scoring with Alexander Hack’s goalbound shot within the box in the 30th minute. Ten minutes later, Pablo De Blasis doubled the German side’s lead. Then Gabala went too close to reducing the goal difference when Nika Kvekveskiri’s superb cross found Urfan Abbasov in a promising position, but the latter failed to finish.

Grigorchuk introduced Ruslan Gurbanov to the second period to reinforce the forward line. The footballer, playing for the Azerbaijan national team, gave a great shot but saw h effort tipped wide.

Mainz looked pushing hard to going more ahead but they were unable to break Gabala’s defense once again during the minutes left.

Then Filip Ozobic and Sergei Zenjov took efforts that gave troubles to the German keeper while the first shot past overhead before the Estonian’s kick went wide of a corner. After the final whistle of their jubilee thirtieth UEFA EL match, Gabala ended with the season’s continental campaign that was their second group experience in a row.

Mainz Line-up:
33. Jannik Huth
2. Giulio Donati
15. Jhon Córdoba
(36. Aaron Seydel, 81')
16. Stefan Bell (C)
17. Jairo Samperio
20. Fabian Frei
22. Andre Ramalho
24. Gaetan Bussmann
25. Jean-Philippe Gbamin
(10. Yunus Mallı, 69')
32. Pablo De Blasis
(38. Qerrit Holtman, 87')
42. Alexander Hack

BENCH: 
1. Jonas Lössl (GK)
3. Leon Balogun
8. Levin Öztunali
10. Yunus Mallı 69'
18. Daniel Brosinski
36. Aaron Seydel 81'
38. Gerrit Holtmann

COACH: Martin Schmidt

Gabala line-up:
22. Dmytro Bezotosniy (GK)
3. Vojislav Stanković
6. Rashad A. Sadygov (C) 46'
7. Nika Kvekveskiri
9. Sergei Zenjov 77'
11. Asif Mammadov
15. Vitaliy Vernydub
19. Filip Ozobić
20. Ricardinho
27. Theo Weeks 86'
34. Urfan Abbasov

BENCH

33. Dawid Pietrzkiewicz (GK)
4. Elvin Jamalov 86'
10. Ruslan Gurbanov 46'
17 Magomed Mirzabekov
21. Roman Huseynov 77’
30. Petar Franjić
44. Rafael

COACH: Roman Grigorchuk