It's time to decide the outcome of the Europa League Play-offs meeting between Qarabağ and Olimpija. Get ready for the match with this full betting preview!
These teams have little in common geographically as Olimpija have to travel 3600 kilometers to reach their opponents. The trip home will be especially long if the match ends in defeat.
It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Qarabağ and Olimpija.
Qarabağ form and stats
Qarabağ have not come this way in the Europa League without some hard work on the way, more precisely defeating HJK. Last season, Qarabağ's Europa League journey ended in the group stage.Qarabağ have collected 7 points from their Premier League home games so far after 2-1-1. On the other hand, in the Europa League, Qarabağ has performed like this (both home and away): 3 wins, 0 draws and 0 losses.
The spoils were shared in Qarabağ's previous game, also at home. Visiting Kapaz travelled back with a draw after a 1-1 scoreline.
Before that, a strong away win at Olimpija. A Europa League game.
The manager Qurbanov will start preparations for the next game as soon this is finished, as the hosts are going to Sebail in only three days.
Qarabağ have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Tofiq Bəhramov adına Respublika stadionu with 6 goals in 4 league matches. Qarabağ have only conceded 3 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Olimpija form and stats
Olimpija are doing rather OK so far in their away games in the 1. SNL, having played 2 games and collected 3 points (1 win, 0 draws and 1 loss).
The manager Henriques was unhappy after their last game, played at their home venue Stadion Stožice. Olimpija suffered a 2-4 loss to Celje. As you can tell from the result, the match against Celje was as crazy as a clown in a village circus. Great fun for the neutral supporter with 6 goals, will the fun continue today?
The fixture before that was the Europa League-duel against Qarabağ, a home defeat (0-2).
There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Olimpija manager Henriques as the team has another away game coming up in only three days, this time against Mura.
As for goals scored and conceded in the league games away so far, Olimpija has managed {6 goals} and let in 6 from 2 matches.
Head 2 Head
This was the result when the sides played each other previously this campaign; Olimpija - Qarabağ 0-2. As for the last three games between these two teams, there's two Qarabağ victories, one draw and zero Olimpija wins. Over/under statistics; zero of these games ended with three goals or more, three matches with two goals or less. The matches between these sides sometimes lean towards being hostile, having seen 5 sending-offs from the last three duels.
Top Goalscorers
  R. da Silva e Sousa 3 goals |  S. Fadida 3 goals |   A. Diakhaby 2 goals |
Qarabağ missing players
Olimpija missing players
| Qarabağ | Olimpija | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 15 | Played | P | 10 | 25 | ||
| 15 | 8 | Won | W | 3 | 14 | ||
| 4 | 4 | Drew | D | 2 | 2 | ||
| 6 | 3 | Lost | L | 5 | 9 | ||
| 53 | 30 | Scored | S | 18 | 50 | ||
| 27 | 16 | Conceded | C | 17 | 40 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 88% | 87% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 90% | 92% | ||
| 72% | 73% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 80% | 80% | ||
| 32% | 33% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 30% | 36% | ||
| 16% | 7% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 10% | 28% | ||
| 60% | 67% | BTTS | BTTS | 80% | 72% | ||
| 32% | 27% | Clean Sheets | C S | 10% | 12% | ||
| 8% | 7% | Failed to Score | F T | 10% | 16% | ||
| 5.8 | 7 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.4 | 6.1 | ||
| 2.1 | 2.3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 2.6 | 3.7 | ||
| 1.4 | 1.6 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.5 | 2.1 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | ||
| 12.5 | 13.9 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11.3 | 13.8 | ||
| 5.2 | 5.6 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.7 | 5.2 | ||
| 40% | 34% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 49% | 38% | ||
| 6.9 | 7.1 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 8.2 | 9.8 | ||
| 3 | 3.2 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.7 | 4.8 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Zira | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 12 |
| 2 | Sumqayt | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 7 |
| 3 | Qarabağ | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7 |
| 4 | Turan | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| 5 | Neftci | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| 6 | Sabah | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 |
| 7 | Sebail | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | -2 | 4 |
| 8 | Araz | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -2 | 4 |
| 9 | Kapaz | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -2 | 4 |
| 10 | Qabala | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 9 | -10 | 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 | Celje | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 5 | 10 | 13 |
| 2 | Maribor | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 11 |
| 3 | Olimpija | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 15 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 9 |
| 4 | Koper | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 9 |
| 5 | Bravo | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | -1 | 7 |
| 6 | Mura | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 6 | -5 | 6 |
| 7 | Domzale | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | -1 | 5 |
| 8 | Aluminij | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | -1 | 4 |
| 9 | Radomlje | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | -6 | 3 |
| 10 | Rogaska | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 9 | -9 | 1 |
