International cups are a highlight for most teams. Both Häcken and Qarabağ are looking forward to this Europa League fight to decide who advances from the Group Stage.
It's quite the trip for Qarabağ when visiting Häcken as the cities are 4200 kilometers apart.
Häcken have less rest than Qarabağ in this fixture, as the hosts were involved in a Allsvenskan game only four days ago. Thankfully the previous game, versus AIK, was also a home game here at Nya Ullevi. The away team is better rested.
Häcken form and stats
Häcken participated in Champions League the last season, where they reached the 1st qualifying round.This stadium, Nya Ullevi, has been a fortress for Häcken in the Allsvenskan so far this season with the win-draw-loss statistic 12-0-1. 1W-1D-1L is the hard facts regardless of venue in the Europa League for Häcken.
Häcken's previous game was also played at home, ending 2-0 versus AIK. The home side are looking to build on that result. Hammar, defender, was given a rating of 7.75/10 in that game, top of the team. Hammar won 9 of 9 duels.
Before that one, a fine away win at Jonsered. A Svenska Cupen game. The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Häcken have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found 7 matches with the results: Won 4, drawn 2 and lost 1.
Häcken are traveling soon after this match as the Allsvenskan match at Hammarby awaits in three days.
Häcken always seem capable of creating a buzz here at Nya Ullevi with 41 goals in 13 league games. On the other hand, Häcken have conceded 15 goals.
Qarabağ form and stats
Qarabağ's mission in Europa League last season failed in the group stage.Things could have gone better for Qarabağ in their Premier League away matches, but 3 points from 2 games is all right. The mentioned statistics is only from the league, looking at the Europa League stats, they have 2 wins, 1 draw and 0 losses both home and away.
Qarabağ had fun at their own home (Nya Ullevi) last time out, beating Sumqayt 5-0. As mentioned above, Qarabağ was the only team on the pitch versus Sumqayt in their previous game, winning 5-0. This could be a tougher task.
Ahead of that match was the victory versus Qabala at their stadium, the result 2-1.So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with Qarabağ playing away and similar expectations, we found 4 relevant matches. Results were 1 Qarabağ win, 1 draw and 2 defeats.
There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Qarabağ manager Qurbanov as the team has another away game coming up in only three days, this time against Neftci.
It's early days yet, but Qarabağ has scored 3 and conceded 3 goals from their travels in the league so far (2 games).
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  M. Rygaard Jensen 7 goals |  E. Hovland 6 goals |   O. Vieira dos Santos Júnior 5 goals |
Häcken missing players
Qarabağ missing players
| Häcken | Qarabağ | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 12 | Played | P | 9 | 25 | ||
| 15 | 9 | Won | W | 6 | 16 | ||
| 4 | 2 | Drew | D | 0 | 4 | ||
| 6 | 1 | Lost | L | 3 | 5 | ||
| 53 | 33 | Scored | S | 18 | 51 | ||
| 31 | 14 | Conceded | C | 12 | 24 | ||
| 96% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 80% | 92% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 88% | ||
| 64% | 75% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 78% | 64% | ||
| 56% | 67% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 22% | 24% | ||
| 28% | 42% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 22% | 16% | ||
| 52% | 58% | BTTS | BTTS | 67% | 56% | ||
| 28% | 33% | Clean Sheets | C S | 22% | 36% | ||
| 24% | 8% | Failed to Score | F T | 11% | 8% | ||
| 6.3 | 7.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.8 | 5.8 | ||
| 4.5 | 4.9 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 2.4 | 2 | ||
| 1.1 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.3 | 1.4 | ||
| 3 | 2 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | ||
| 14.8 | 16.6 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 9.9 | 12.5 | ||
| 6.8 | 7.7 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.3 | 5.1 | ||
| 31% | 36% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 46% | 39% | ||
| 12.8 | 13.5 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 7.8 | 6.9 | ||
| 4.3 | 4.4 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3.3 | 2.8 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Bayer Leverkusen | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 |
| 2 | Qarabağ | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 3 | Molde | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 0 |
| 4 | Häcken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | -4 | 0 |
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Malmö FF | 24 | 16 | 4 | 4 | 51 | 21 | 12 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 30 | 10 | 12 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 21 | 11 | 30 | 52 |
| 2 | Elfsborg | 24 | 16 | 3 | 5 | 47 | 21 | 12 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 26 | 10 | 12 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 21 | 11 | 26 | 51 |
| 3 | Häcken | 25 | 16 | 2 | 7 | 57 | 30 | 13 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 41 | 15 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 16 | 15 | 27 | 50 |
| 4 | Djurgården | 25 | 13 | 4 | 8 | 35 | 29 | 13 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 23 | 11 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 12 | 18 | 6 | 43 |
| 5 | Hammarby | 25 | 11 | 6 | 8 | 35 | 33 | 12 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 23 | 15 | 13 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 12 | 18 | 2 | 39 |
| 6 | Norrköping | 25 | 11 | 5 | 9 | 39 | 33 | 13 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 17 | 15 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 22 | 18 | 6 | 38 |
| 7 | Kalmar | 25 | 10 | 6 | 9 | 28 | 32 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 14 | 14 | 13 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 14 | 18 | -4 | 36 |
| 8 | Varnamo | 25 | 11 | 2 | 12 | 28 | 28 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 8 | 11 | 13 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 20 | 17 | 0 | 35 |
| 9 | Mjallby | 25 | 10 | 4 | 11 | 26 | 28 | 13 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 12 | 16 | 12 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 14 | 12 | -2 | 34 |
| 10 | IFK Göteborg | 25 | 7 | 9 | 9 | 28 | 29 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 18 | 10 | 13 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 10 | 19 | -1 | 30 |
| 11 | Sirius | 25 | 8 | 5 | 12 | 39 | 38 | 13 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 26 | 21 | 12 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 13 | 17 | 1 | 29 |
| 12 | Halmstad | 25 | 8 | 5 | 12 | 23 | 40 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 16 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 13 | 24 | -17 | 29 |
| 13 | AIK | 25 | 7 | 7 | 11 | 28 | 32 | 12 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 16 | 12 | 13 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 12 | 20 | -4 | 28 |
| 14 | Brommapojkarna | 24 | 8 | 3 | 13 | 32 | 41 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 15 | 17 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 17 | 24 | -9 | 27 |
| 15 | Degerfors | 25 | 7 | 2 | 16 | 25 | 54 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 16 | 19 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 9 | 35 | -29 | 23 |
| 16 | Varberg | 24 | 3 | 5 | 16 | 20 | 52 | 12 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 26 | 12 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 12 | 26 | -32 | 14 |
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Qarabağ | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 16 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 16 |
| 2 | Zira | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 16 |
| 3 | Sebail | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 14 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 14 |
| 4 | Araz | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 13 |
| 5 | Neftci | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 12 |
| 6 | Turan | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 11 |
| 7 | Sumqayt | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 9 | -3 | 8 |
| 8 | Qabala | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 15 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 11 | -9 | 7 |
| 9 | Sabah | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | -1 | 6 |
| 10 | Kapaz | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | -7 | 5 |
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