The Premier League league standings tell a tale about these sides to this date, with Sabah in front of Kapaz by 18 points. Match preview to follow:
- Sabah have the most scored goals in the first half (9) in Premier League
- Kapaz have the most conceded goals (23) in Premier League
It's no vacation for neither Sabah nor Kapaz 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.
Sabah form and stats
Sabah, who have the most points (13) at home in Premier League, have collected 13 points from their Premier League home games so far after 4-1-0. Sabah has recorded two wins in a row here at Bank Respublika Arena, increasing their hopes of victory in this match.
Defensively the home team are doing well, with their goalkeeper not having conceded a league goal in 188 minutes.
Sabah's last game was hosting Kapaz (placed 9th) and winning 5-0. As mentioned above, Sabah "killed" Kapaz in their previous game. They need to reset completely for this one and beware of complacency.
In the game before, an away victory match versus Kesl FK with a 1-0 scoreline.Sabah are an "over 2,5 goals" team alone here at Bank Respublika Arena in their league games, having scored an impressive 13 goals in 5 matches. Defensively Sabah have been outstanding, conceding less than half a goal on average per home game in the league (2 in 5 games). For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Kapaz form and stats
0-1-4 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Kapaz, who have the most conceded goals (23) in Premier League, in their Premier League matches away.
The attacking players of Kapaz have been feeble for some time now, the team not scoring a league goal in the last 210 minutes.
Kapaz are travelling again after losing away to Sabah in their previous match (0-5). As you can see from the result above, the defeat against Sabah was particularly ugly (0-5). The humiliation is still top of mind.
Ahead of that match was the away draw versus Sumqayt that ended 0-0.Many goals are not expected from the visiting Kapaz as they have only managed to score 3 times from 5 away games in the league. Kapaz can't defend away. 16 goals have been scored by the opposition in 5 matches, an average of more than three per game. You might want to look at the total goal statistics, which can be found on the Statistics tab above.
Head 2 Head
This duo played each other earlier on this match year: Sabah - Kapaz 5-0. Head-to-head data (for the last three meetings): Sabah won two games, zero matches ended with a draw and Kapaz have one win. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: three / zero. One of the profiles has been Mickels with 3 goals scored against Kapaz in these 3 encounters.
Top Goalscorers
  J. Mickels 6 goals |  A. Ba 2 goals | D. Volkovi 2 goals |
Sabah missing players
Kapaz missing players
| Sabah | Kapaz | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 9 | 5 | 2 | Played | P | 1 | 5 | 9 |
| 7 | 4 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1 | 1 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 4 | 7 |
| 22 | 13 | 3 | Scored | S | 2 | 3 | 6 |
| 7 | 2 | 0 | Conceded | C | 5 | 16 | 23 |
| 89% | 80% | 50% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 80% | 89% |
| 78% | 80% | 50% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 80% | 78% |
| 67% | 80% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 60% | 67% |
| 44% | 40% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 100% | 60% | 33% |
| 22% | 20% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 100% | 60% | 33% |
| 44% | 40% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 40% | 44% |
| 56% | 60% | 100% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 20% | 11% |
| 11% | 20% | 50% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 60% | 56% |
| 5.9 | 6.2 | 8 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 8 | 3.8 | 3.2 |
| 4.2 | 3.4 | 5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5 | 4.6 | 4.3 |
| 2.7 | 2.2 | 1.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 2.4 | 2.3 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 13 | 15 | 14.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 6 | 8.6 | 8 |
| 5.4 | 5.8 | 5.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3 | 3.4 | 3.6 |
| 45% | 45% | 27% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 67% | 18% | 19% |
| 7.2 | 6.4 | 5 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 20 | 13.8 | 12.6 |
| 3.3 | 2.8 | 2.5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 10 | 7.2 | 6.4 |
- Kapaz have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Kapaz have the most conceded goals (16) away in Premier League
- Kapaz have the most conceded goals (23) in Premier League
- Kapaz have the most conceded goals in the first half (12) in Premier League
- Kapaz have the most conceded goals in the second half (11) in Premier League
- Kapaz have the the worst goal difference (-13) away in Premier League
- Kapaz have the the worst goal difference (-17) in Premier League
- Kapaz have yet to win a game away.
- Sabah have not yet lost a game at home.
- Sabah have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Sabah have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Sabah have scored more than double the goals of Kapaz.
- Sabah have the fewest conceded goals (2) at home in Premier League
- Sabah have the most clean sheets (3) at home in Premier League
- Sabah have the most points (13) at home in Premier League
- Sabah have the most scored goals in the first half (9) in Premier League
- Sabah have the the best goal difference (+11) at home in Premier League
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Qarabag | 8 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 1 | 19 | 24 |
| 2 | Sabah | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 22 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 15 | 22 |
| 3 | Neftci | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 17 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 19 |
| 4 | Zira | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 16 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 5 | -3 | 16 |
| 5 | Qabala | 9 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 13 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 15 |
| 6 | Turan | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | -2 | 11 |
| 7 | Sebail | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | -3 | 8 |
| 8 | Sumqayt | 9 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 8 | -10 | 4 |
| 9 | Kapaz | 9 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 23 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 16 | -17 | 4 |
| 10 | Kesl FK | 9 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 15 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 11 | -11 | 2 |
