The visiting Qarabağ side should be favourites in this visit to Sabah, as the away team holds a 10 point advantage from their twelve league games this season.
- Sabah have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Qarabağ has the most scored goals (31) in Premier League
Sabah form and stats
Sabah's results here at Bank Respublika Arena in the Premier League have been very modest with 2 victories, 0 draws and 4 defeats.
Happy days for Sabah in their previous game, a Premier League match away at Sumqayt (placed 4th) that ended with a 2-1 victory. Preceding that match was the home game against Neftçi that was lost 0-2.
Some members of the home team might already be thinking of their next match, the Azerbaidjan Cup game versus Kapaz in only three days. This game is also played here at Bank Respublika Arena.
Sabah has scored 6 league goals at home this season, in 6 matches. Sabah have conceded 8 in these home matches.
Qarabağ form and stats
1-5-0 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Qarabağ, who have the most scored goals (31) in Premier League, in their Premier League matches away. Qarabağ has drawn their two previous away games.
Qarabağ won their last game, 3-2 versus Zira played at home. A 1-1 draw at Qabala's stadium before that.
What a finish in the last match, as Qarabağ came back from being down 0-2 and secured a very satisfying victory through O. Kwabena's goal in the 89th minute. Qarabağ showed an amazing ability to get out of trouble in their victory against Zira, as they were behind on goals when K. Medina was sent off in the 90th minute. A great comeback by ten players secured the win after goals from O. Kwabena (2) and M. Emreli (2).
The travelling fans enjoy Qarabağ's attacking play in away games, having scored 10 goals in 6 league matches away. It's not easy to score on Qarabağ as they have only conceded 4 goals from these away games.
Head 2 Head
The teams have played each other before this season, with the result Qarabağ - Sabah 2-0 entered in the official records. H2H stats regardless of arena (last eight matches): Sabah zero wins, three draws and Qarabağ five victories. As for goals, one match ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), seven games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  F. Ozobić 7 goals |  M. Mədətov 7 goals | O. Kwabena 5 goals |
Sabah missing players
Qarabağ missing players
| Sabah | Qarabağ | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 13 | 6 | 1 | Played | P | 2 | 6 | 12 |
| 4 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 2 | 5 | 5 |
| 8 | 4 | 1 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 13 | 6 | 0 | Scored | S | 1 | 10 | 31 |
| 17 | 8 | 2 | Conceded | C | 1 | 4 | 10 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 50% | 67% | 83% |
| 85% | 83% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 67% | 83% |
| 46% | 50% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 33% | 58% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 33% | 42% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 17% | 33% |
| 46% | 33% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 50% | 58% |
| 15% | 17% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 50% | 50% | 42% |
| 38% | 50% | 100% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 33% | 17% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | 3.2 | 3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 1.7 | 1.4 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 10.5 | 10.5 | 6 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 14.5 | 16.2 | 17.1 |
| 4.1 | 4 | 3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 6 | 7.2 | 8.7 |
| 25% | 25% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 8% | 23% | 30% |
- Qarabağ has the fewest conceded goals (10) in Premier League
- Qarabağ has the fewest conceded goals in the first half (3) in Premier League
- Qarabağ has the most scored goals (31) in Premier League
- Qarabağ has the most scored goals in the first half (12) in Premier League
- Qarabağ has the most scored goals in the second half (19) in Premier League
- Qarabağ has the the best goal difference (+21) in Premier League
- Qarabağ have not yet lost a game away.
- Qarabağ have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Qarabağ have scored more than double the goals of Sabah.
- Qarabağ is in the best form (4-2-0)
- Sabah have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Sabah haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Neftçi | 13 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 15 | 14 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 24 |
| 2 | Qarabağ | 12 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 31 | 10 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 21 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 10 | 4 | 21 | 23 |
| 3 | Zira | 13 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 16 | 14 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 9 | 2 | 20 |
| 4 | Sumqayt | 13 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 16 | 20 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 12 | -4 | 16 |
| 5 | Qabala | 13 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 13 | 20 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 11 | -7 | 15 |
| 6 | Sebail | 12 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 14 | 16 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 7 | -2 | 13 |
| 7 | Sabah | 13 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 13 | 17 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 9 | -4 | 13 |
| 8 | Kesl FK | 13 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 13 | 20 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 12 | -7 | 13 |