The visiting Sumqayıt side should be favourites in this visit to Sabah, as the away team holds a 5 point advantage from their six league games this season.
There should be plenty of energy on the pitch in this game, as both sides have had time to recuperate from their last game. Let's hope both teams are ready to give it all.
Sabah form and stats
Only two Premier League home games for Sabah so far, yet both highs and lows with 1 win, 0 draws and 1 defeat. Sabah has three losses from their three previous games and the tension is increasing in the dressing room for both the manager V. Fernandez and the players.
Times are rough for the home team, having gone 243 minutes without scoring a league goal. R. Sheydaev was the last player to find the net.
No payout for Sabah in their previous match, an away game at Neftci that ended in defeat 0-1. Before that game, the home loss against Kesl FK with the scoreline 0-2.
This is expected to be a close game, with Sabah perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Sabah as a small favourite), we find eleven games. Sabah has won four of these, drawn two and lost five.
Early season league goal statistics from Sabah's 2 home games: 3 goals, 2 conceded.
Sumqayıt form and stats
Four points from two away games for Sumqayıt, meaning one draw and one victory in the Premier League so far.
Sumqayıt won their last game, 2-1 versus Zira played at home. Ahead of that match was the away draw versus Qabala that ended 1-1.
As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found three similar matches played by Sumqayıt in our archives, and the results are: one win for Sumqayıt, zero draws and two defeats.
As for goals scored and conceded in the league games away so far, Sumqayıt has managed 3 goals and let in 1 from 2 matches.
Head 2 Head
Head-to-head totals (for the last eight meetings): Sabah won two games, one match ended with a draw and Sumqayıt has five wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: four / fourTop Goalscorers
  A. Ghorbani 5 goals |   R. Şeydayev 2 goals | B. Mustafazadə 1 goals |
Sabah missing players
Sumqayıt missing players
| Sabah | Sumqayıt | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 6 | 2 | 0 | Played | P | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 4 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | 3 | 0 | Scored | S | 1 | 3 | 9 |
| 7 | 2 | 0 | Conceded | C | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 83% | 100% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 83% |
| 33% | 50% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 0% | 50% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 17% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 17% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 50% | 67% |
| 33% | 50% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 50% | 17% |
| 50% | 50% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 17% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2.8 | 2 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1 | 1 | 2.7 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 70 | 17 | 0 | Total Shots | T S | 9 | 21 | 54 |
| 25 | 6 | 0 | Shots on Target | S O | 3 | 10 | 22 |
| 24% | 50% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 33% | 30% | 41% |
- All of Sabah's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- All of Sumqayıt's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Sabah haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Sumqayıt has the most scored goals (9) in Premier League
- Sumqayıt has the most scored goals in the first half (5) in Premier League
- Sumqayıt have not yet lost a game away.
- Sumqayıt have scored in all their away matches so far.
- Sumqayıt haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Sumqayıt is in the best form (3-2-1)
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Neftci | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 13 |
| 2 | Sumqayıt | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 11 |
| 3 | Zira | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 10 |
| 4 | Kesl FK | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 9 |
| 5 | Qarabağ | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 8 |
| 6 | Sabah | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 5 | -1 | 6 |
| 7 | Sebail | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | -2 | 5 |
| 8 | Qabala | 7 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 | -6 | 5 |