Today at 20:00 at the Republican Stadium named after Tofik Bahramov, the first match of the 2nd qualification round of the Champions League between the Azerbaijani Karabakh and the Swiss Zurich.
will begin.
The interest in the game is huge. A full house is expected.
The meeting will be judged by a team of referees from Bosnia and Herzegovina, led by Irfan Pelito.
Recall, “Karabakh” in the 1st round confidently passed the Polish “Lech” (0: 1, 5: 1). “Zurich” enters into the fight from the 2nd round.
The return game will take place on July 27 in Zurich.
The winner of this couple in the 3rd round will play with the strongest in the confrontation of “Ferencvarosh” (Hungary) – “Slovan” (Slovakia). And the loser will go to the 3rd round of the Conferences League, where he will meet with a loser in a pair of Linfield (Northern Ireland)-“Bude-Glimt” (Norway).
Earlier, Karabakh spent four matches with Swiss clubs. In the 2015/16 season, the Agdam in the round -off of the Europa playoffs confidently passed “Young Boys” – 1: 0, 3: 0. And last season, at the group stage of the conferences league, the wards of Gurban Gurbanov played with Basel. There were no heads in Baku, and in the outbound match, which was remembered by the flagrant mistake of the Croatian arbitrators who did not count the purest goal of Karabakh, the Swiss won 3-0
For “Zurich” this will be the first date with Azerbaijani football in European competitions. The team, led by the German Frank Foda, unsuccessfully started in the Switzerland championship, losing largely on the weekend “Young Boys” – 0: 4. However, this defeat should in no case relax the players of Karabakh.