Zira will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 7 points behind Qarabağ.
- Zira have the fewest conceded goals (7) at home in Premier League
- Qarabağ have the most scored goals (42) in Premier League
We should expect both teams to be fresh and ready for this match, as there is some time since both teams last played. Let's have a look at how the teams are doing!
Zira form and stats
When playing at home in the Premier League, Zira, who have the fewest conceded goals (7) at home in Premier League, have managed 4 wins, 4 draws and suffered 1 defeat from 9 games.
The Zira goalkeeper Matheus Albino Carneiro is looking to record 90 more "clean sheet" minutes as his team have now played 249 minutes without conceding a goal in the Premier League.
Zira are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 11 goals in 9 games. Zira are not conceding a lot of goals here at Zirə qəsəbə stadionu in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 7 from 9 matches.
Qarabağ form and stats
The story so far for the visiting team, who have the most scored goals (42) in Premier League, on their Premier League travels is 2 wins, 6 draws and 0 defeats. The away team travel with confidence. Not since the Kesl FK game have they lost an away game, meaning Qarabağ has taken points from eight away matches in a row.
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. Qarabağ goalkeeper Sahruddin M@h@mm@d@liyev is eager to challenge this, with his 285 minutes of keeping balls out from the net.
It was a convincing performance from Qarabağ when Qabala were beaten. The team "killed" the match in the first half leading 3-0 and the second half was comfortable. F. Ozobić (2) and M. Emreli scored their goals.
Qarabağ are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 12 times in 8 away games so far. Qarabağ are defending well in their away games, having conceded only 5 times in 8 matches. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.
Head 2 Head
The dueling parties have met before this season: Qarabağ - Zira 3-2. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Zira zero wins, three draws and Qarabağ seven victories. As for goals, seven matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), three games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  M. Mədətov 12 goals |  F. Ozobić 9 goals |  D. Volkovi 8 goals |
Zira missing players
Qarabağ missing players
| Zira | Qarabağ | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 18 | 9 | 2 | Played | P | 3 | 8 | 18 |
| 7 | 4 | 2 | Won | W | 0 | 2 | 10 |
| 8 | 4 | 0 | Drew | D | 3 | 6 | 6 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 23 | 11 | 2 | Scored | S | 3 | 12 | 42 |
| 18 | 7 | 0 | Conceded | C | 3 | 5 | 13 |
| 78% | 78% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 67% | 62% | 83% |
| 61% | 56% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 67% | 62% | 78% |
| 44% | 33% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 33% | 38% | 61% |
| 33% | 33% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 33% | 25% | 33% |
| 11% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 12% | 22% |
| 50% | 33% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 67% | 50% | 50% |
| 44% | 56% | 100% | Clean Sheets | C S | 33% | 50% | 50% |
| 28% | 33% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 33% | 38% | 17% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2.1 | 1.6 | 1.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.7 | 1.4 | 1.2 |
| 5 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 6.4 | 6 | 4.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 20 | 16 | 16.6 |
| 3.2 | 3 | 2.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 8 | 6.8 | 7.9 |
| 35% | 29% | 40% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 12% | 22% | 30% |
- Qarabağ have not yet lost a game away.
- Qarabağ have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Qarabağ have the fewest conceded goals (13) in Premier League
- Qarabağ have the fewest conceded goals (5) away in Premier League
- Qarabağ have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (4) in Premier League
- Qarabağ have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (9) in Premier League
- Qarabağ have the most clean sheets (4) away in Premier League
- Qarabağ have the most clean sheets (9) in Premier League
- Qarabağ have the most scored goals (42) in Premier League
- Qarabağ have the most scored goals in the first half (18) in Premier League
- Qarabağ have the most scored goals in the second half (24) in Premier League
- Qarabağ have the the best goal difference (+29) in Premier League
- Zira have the fewest conceded goals (7) 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 | Qarabağ | 18 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 42 | 13 | 10 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 30 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 12 | 5 | 29 | 36 |
| 2 | Neftci | 18 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 23 | 18 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 12 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 6 | 5 | 36 |
| 3 | Zira | 18 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 23 | 18 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 11 | 7 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 12 | 11 | 5 | 29 |
| 4 | Sumqayt | 18 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 20 | 21 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 13 | -1 | 24 |
| 5 | Qabala | 18 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 16 | 26 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 17 | -10 | 21 |
| 6 | Sebail | 18 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 18 | 28 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 12 | 13 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 15 | -10 | 17 |
| 7 | Kesl FK | 18 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 17 | 27 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 11 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 16 | -10 | 16 |
| 8 | Sabah | 18 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 18 | 26 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 11 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 15 | -8 | 15 |