A trophy cabinet can never have too much silverware and both Qarabağ and Sumqayıt know what's at stake in this second leg of the Azerbaidjan Cup Semi-finals clash.
It's no vacation for neither Qarabağ nor Sumqayıt as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.
Qarabağ form and stats
Last season their Azerbaidjan Cup adventure ended in the quarter-finals.Home games in the Premier League have been a walk in the park for Qarabağ so far, with 30 points won from 12 matches; 10 wins, 0 draws and 2 losses. This match is a Azerbaidjan Cup match, and the hometeam has the total statistics 2 wins, 1 draw and 0 losses in this competition. After failing to beat Neftci here at Tofiq Bəhramov adına Respublika stadionu, Qarabağ has put together a very nice winning streak on their own turf with four wins in a row.
Preceding that game was the away draw at Sumqayıt that finished 0-0.
As mentioned above, Qarabağ "killed" Qabala in their previous game. They need to reset completely for this one and beware of complacency. What a game it was for M. Emreli when beating Qabala, applying the finishing touch to three goals!
Some members of the home team might already be thinking of their next match, the Premier League game versus Zira in only four days. This game is also played here at Tofiq Bəhramov adına Respublika stadionu.
Qarabağ are an "over 2,5 goals" team alone here at Tofiq Bəhramov adına Respublika stadionu in their league games, having scored an impressive 36 goals in 12 matches. From these home matches, Qarabağ have conceded only 9 goals.
Sumqayıt form and stats
Last season their Azerbaidjan Cup adventure ended in the quarter-finals.4-4-4 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Sumqayıt in their Premier League matches away. The mentioned statistics is only from the league, looking at the Azerbaidjan Cup stats, they have 1 win, 1 draw and 1 loss both home and away.
Did you know that the longest clean sheet streak is 1816 minutes? This record is held by Mazaropi when he played in Vasco da Gama. Sumqayıt goalkeeper Aydin Bayramov is eager to challenge this, with his 191 minutes of keeping balls out from the net.
Preceding that match was the 0-0 draw at home vs Qarabağ.
After this away game Sumqayıt return home for a Premier League game against Sabah. That game is only four sleeps after this.
Sumqayıt have a decent goal production going in their away games, although not fantastic. In 12 league away games 14 goals have been scored. In the opposite end, Sumqayıt have conceded 18 goals in their away games.
Head 2 Head
The last H2H meeting was Sumqayıt - Qarabağ 0-0, played this season. Numbers for the last ten meetings between these two teams are: six wins for Qarabağ, three draws and one win for Sumqayıt. Over 2,5 goals: five times; under 2,5 goals: five games.Top Goalscorers
  M. Mədətov 16 goals |  F. Ozobić 11 goals |  A. Ghorbani 9 goals |
Qarabağ missing players
Sumqayıt missing players
| Qarabağ | Sumqayıt | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 12 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 14 | 9 | Won | W | 4 | 8 | ||
| 7 | 1 | Drew | D | 4 | 10 | ||
| 4 | 2 | Lost | L | 4 | 7 | ||
| 58 | 36 | Scored | S | 14 | 28 | ||
| 22 | 12 | Conceded | C | 19 | 29 | ||
| 92% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 92% | 80% | ||
| 88% | 92% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 75% | 64% | ||
| 56% | 75% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 48% | ||
| 36% | 58% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 25% | 20% | ||
| 28% | 42% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 17% | 8% | ||
| 52% | 67% | BTTS | BTTS | 67% | 52% | ||
| 40% | 33% | Clean Sheets | C S | 25% | 36% | ||
| 16% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 17% | 32% | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | ||
| 1.2 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.5 | 2.3 | ||
| 2 | 2 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 14.7 | 16.2 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 5.8 | 6.7 | ||
| 7 | 8.2 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2.5 | 2.6 | ||
| 35% | 37% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 44% | 42% | ||
| 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 | 24 | 14 | 8 | 2 | 57 | 16 | 12 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 36 | 9 | 12 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 21 | 7 | 41 | 50 |
| 2 | Neftci | 24 | 14 | 5 | 5 | 38 | 25 | 13 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 20 | 15 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 18 | 10 | 13 | 47 |
| 3 | Sumqayıt | 24 | 8 | 9 | 7 | 28 | 28 | 12 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 14 | 10 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 14 | 18 | 0 | 33 |
| 4 | Zira | 24 | 7 | 12 | 5 | 24 | 25 | 12 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 11 | 9 | 12 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 13 | 16 | -1 | 33 |
| 5 | Qabala | 24 | 5 | 9 | 10 | 20 | 38 | 13 | 3 | 8 | 2 | 14 | 18 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 20 | -18 | 24 |
| 6 | Kesl FK | 24 | 4 | 11 | 9 | 22 | 33 | 11 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 10 | 12 | 13 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 12 | 21 | -11 | 23 |
| 7 | Sabah | 24 | 5 | 7 | 12 | 22 | 31 | 12 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 12 | 14 | 12 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 17 | -9 | 22 |
| 8 | Sebail | 24 | 4 | 9 | 11 | 20 | 35 | 11 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 13 | 14 | 13 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 7 | 21 | -15 | 21 |