Today at 23:00 Baku time in Nicosia will begin the match of the 2nd round of the group round of the conference league, in which the Cypriot “Omonia” and Azerbaijani “Karabakh” will play.
To judge the match will be a brigade of arbitrators from Scotland led by Bobby Madden.
In the 1st round, both teams tied 0: 0. “Karabakh” houses were close to victory over the Swiss “Basel”, but did not realize his moments. And “Omonia” played a draw in Almaty with “Kairat”. So all teams of the group “H” one point and no ball scored. Today in the parallel match “Basel” will take “Kairat”.
Recall, following the results of six tours, the winner of the group will be released in the 1/8 finals, and the team that took 2nd place will play in the additional round of the playoffs with one of the third teams of the Europa League group stage.
“Karabakh” in the current European Cup of Cyprus already played. In the 3rd qualifying round, the Agdam club passed the team Ael. In Baku, the account was recorded 1: 1, and visited Gurban Gurban wards to win – 1: 0.
Before Ael “Karabakh” overcame the barrier in the face of the Israeli “Ashdod” (0: 0, 1: 0), and in the round, the playoffs made the Capitution of the Scottish “Aberdeen” (1: 0, 3: 1).
“Omonia” as the champion of Cyprus began the European Campaign in the Champions League, where she lost to Zagreb “Dynamo” (0: 2, 0: 1) and went to the Europa League. In the 3rd qualification round of this Cypriot tournament, the Estonian “flora” was held in the Penalti series, but in the playoff round, the Belgian “Antwerp” was reigning on the penalty. Thus, “Omonia” fell into the group stage of the League of conferences.