Get ready for the return leg of the Champions League 2nd Qualifying Round between Qarabağ and Raków Częstochowa. This should be an interesting match and this preview contains everything you need to know. Read on!
It's time to recharge all electronic entertainment devices for Raków Częstochowa, who are travelling more than 3100 kilometers to play this game.
Both contenders have had time to rest since their previous exertion in an official match. Let's agree to expect an animated match!
Qarabağ form and stats
Qarabağ have not come this way in the Champions League without some hard work on the way, more precisely defeating Lincoln Red Imps. Qarabağ was eliminated in the play-offs last season in the Champions League. Viktoria Plzen was too strong.43 points is a decent return from 18 Premier League games here at Bakı Olimpiya Stadionu for Qarabağ. The data says 13 wins, 4 draws and 1 loss. 2W-0D-1L is the hard facts regardless of venue in the Champions League for Qarabağ.
The club members are hoping that Qarabağ will strike back in this match, putting things right after the 2-3 away loss in the Champions League fixture against Raków Częstochowa. The striker Xhixha was announced as "man of the match" for Qarabağ with the rating of 8.14/10. Xhixha scored two goals.
A victory at home ahead of that game, as anticipated. The team were huge favourites against Lincoln Red Imps and won 4-0. This is expected to be a close game, with Qarabağ perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Qarabağ as a small favourite), we find 4 games. Qarabağ has won 2 of these, drawn 2 and lost 0.
Another home game is coming up fairly shortly for the hosts, as Zira are coming to town in three days.
The Qarabağ manager Qurbanov has got the team scoring with 44 from 18 home games in the league. From these home matches, Qarabağ have conceded only 16 goals.
Raków Częstochowa form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Flora in order to reach 2nd qualifying round of Champions League.When we have look at the Champions League statistics, we find 3W-0D-0L. This is both home and away.
The club members enjoyed Częstochowa's previous fixture versus Qarabağ, a Champions League win (3-2) played at home. The attacker Cebula got a match rating of 7.65 in that game. Cebula hit three key passes and dribled past the opponent 4 of 5 times.
Prior to that match, a home win 3-0 against Jagiellonia Biaystok in the Ekstraklasa.Head 2 Head
The former H2H meeting ended Raków Częstochowa - Qarabağ 3-2, earlier this season. One of the players to grab the headlines has been Xhixha with 2 goals scored against Raków Częstochowa in these 1 meetings.
Top Goalscorers
  Ł. Zwoliński 2 goals | B. Nowak 1 goals |
Qarabağ missing players
Raków Częstochowa missing players
| Qarabağ | Raków Częstochowa | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 14 | 7 | Won | W | 7 | 17 | ||
| 5 | 4 | Drew | D | 2 | 4 | ||
| 6 | 2 | Lost | L | 3 | 4 | ||
| 51 | 27 | Scored | S | 17 | 47 | ||
| 26 | 13 | Conceded | C | 8 | 16 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 83% | 88% | ||
| 80% | 85% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 67% | 76% | ||
| 64% | 69% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 52% | ||
| 36% | 38% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 8% | 24% | ||
| 16% | 8% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 12% | ||
| 56% | 62% | BTTS | BTTS | 33% | 36% | ||
| 36% | 38% | Clean Sheets | C S | 58% | 56% | ||
| 8% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 25% | 20% | ||
| 5.9 | 7.7 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 6.4 | 6.4 | ||
| 2.5 | 3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 2.6 | 2.9 | ||
| 1.8 | 1.7 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.1 | 1.6 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | ||
| 12 | 13.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 14.3 | 13.2 | ||
| 5.1 | 5.7 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5.5 | 4.8 | ||
| 39% | 35% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 26% | 39% | ||
| 6.5 | 6.8 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 8 | 8 | ||
| 2.8 | 2.9 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 2.7 | 2.4 | ||
| 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 | 36 | 28 | 6 | 2 | 91 | 25 | 18 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 44 | 16 | 18 | 15 | 2 | 1 | 47 | 9 | 66 | 90 |
| 2 | Sabah | 36 | 25 | 6 | 5 | 75 | 24 | 18 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 35 | 9 | 18 | 12 | 2 | 4 | 40 | 15 | 51 | 81 |
| 3 | Neftci | 36 | 20 | 8 | 8 | 63 | 38 | 18 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 37 | 20 | 18 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 26 | 18 | 25 | 68 |
| 4 | Qabala | 36 | 13 | 11 | 12 | 47 | 47 | 18 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 22 | 21 | 18 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 25 | 26 | 0 | 50 |
| 5 | Zira | 36 | 13 | 11 | 12 | 45 | 46 | 18 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 23 | 31 | 18 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 22 | 15 | -1 | 50 |
| 6 | Turan | 36 | 10 | 9 | 17 | 36 | 49 | 18 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 21 | 28 | 18 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 15 | 21 | -13 | 39 |
| 7 | Kapaz | 36 | 6 | 13 | 17 | 34 | 62 | 18 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 18 | 25 | 18 | 1 | 8 | 9 | 16 | 37 | -28 | 31 |
| 8 | Sumqayt | 36 | 8 | 7 | 21 | 26 | 70 | 18 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 13 | 40 | 18 | 5 | 2 | 11 | 13 | 30 | -44 | 31 |
| 9 | Sebail | 36 | 7 | 8 | 21 | 32 | 62 | 18 | 6 | 4 | 8 | 17 | 22 | 18 | 1 | 4 | 13 | 15 | 40 | -30 | 29 |
| 10 | Kesl FK | 36 | 4 | 13 | 19 | 26 | 52 | 18 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 12 | 21 | 18 | 1 | 6 | 11 | 14 | 31 | -26 | 25 |
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Legia Warszawa | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2 | Raków Częstochowa | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 3 | Radomiak Radom | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 4 | Widzew Lodz | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 5 | Zagebie Lubin | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 6 | Lech Poznan | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 7 | Pogon Szczecin | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 8 | Stal Mielec | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | Cracovia Krakow | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | Slask Wrocaw | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | Korona Kielce | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | Puszcza Niepoomice | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -1 | 0 |
| 13 | Ruch Chorzow | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -1 | 0 |
| 14 | Piast Gliwice | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 |
| 15 | Warta Poznan | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 |
| 16 | Gornik Zabrze | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 |
| 17 | Jagiellonia Biaystok | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | -3 | 0 |
| 18 | KS odz | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | -3 | 0 |
