Sumqayıt v Qabala betting guide: Not much separates the two teams

There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.

Sumqayıt form and stats

With 2 Premier League wins, 2 draws and 4 defeats from their home games, Sumqayıt are certainly not brimming with confidence. The season ticket holders are starting to dread their visits here at Kapital Bank Arena, with the home team losing four in a row. They have not avoided a defeat here since the Sebail game.

The Sumqayıt followers got no joy from their last match, also played here at Kapital Bank Arena: A 0-4 defeat against Qabala (placed 2nd).

This is expected to be a close game, with Sumqayıt perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Sumqayıt as a small favourite), we find ten games. Sumqayıt has won three of these, drawn two and lost five.

Sumqayıt have scored 6 league goals here from 8 matches, not a lot. Defensively it’s touch-and-go for the home team as 15 goals have been conceded. It's worth mentioning that 10 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches.

Qabala form and stats

Playing away, Qabala, who have the most points (17) away in Premier League, have won 5 games, drawn 2 and suffered 2 defeats in the Premier League this season.

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. Qabala goalkeeper is eager to challenge this, with his 194 minutes of keeping balls out from the net.

Two away games in a row for Qabala, whose manager Baxsiyev could celebrate last time after the win against Sumqayıt.

That result followed a home victory 2-0 versus Sebail.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 14 similar matches played by Qabala in our archives, and the results are: four wins for Qabala, three draws and seven defeats.

Qabala are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 15 times in 9 away games so far. Qabala have conceded 10 goals in these away matches.

Head 2 Head

The squads have faced each other already this season, with the result Sumqayıt - Qabala 0-4 logged in the official records. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's one Sumqayıt victory, three draws and six Qabala wins. Over/under statistics; three of these games ended with three goals or more, seven matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

U. Iskandarov 6 goals

R. Schorr Utzig 5 goals

I. Alimi 5 goals

Sumqayıt missing players

Qabala missing players