📊 Form Guide

Sabah

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Sabah, buoyed by their previous result, will be hoping for more of the same after a 0-2 Premyer Liqasi victory against Karvan.

For Sabah, the goals were scored by Joy-Lance Mickels (31') and Kaheem Parris (37').

Under three goals per match were scored during 5 of the last 6 meetings where Sabah have taken part. In terms of the goal split from that period, opposing sides scored an aggregate of 3 while Sabah got themselves 7.

Zira

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In the game prior to this, Zira drew 2-2 in the Premyer Liqasi match with Neftçi.

For Zira, the scorers were Giorgi Papunashvili (28') and Renato (90'). Freddy Vargas (66') and Bassala Sambou (88') scored for Neftçi.

Zira have seen success in front of goal in their most recent fixtures, having scored 13 goals in their previous 6 matches. This doesn’t mask the fact that Zira have had their own issues at the back, also conceding in 5 of those same games. Still, we’ll just have to find out if the trend will be maintained here in this match or not.

↔️ Head to head

Inspecting their prior head to head meetings stretching back to 27/01/2024 shows us that Sabah have won 1 of them and Zira 2, with the tally of drawn matches standing at 3.

10 goals were produced between them in this period, with 4 from Sabah and 6 netted by Qartallar. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 1.67.

The previous league encounter featuring the two was Premyer Liqasi match day 35 on 17/05/2025 when the final score was Zira 1-1 Sabah.

📋 Team News: Zira

In an otherwise healthy squad, there’s just the lone fitness worry for the Zira manager Rashad Sadygov to be concerned with. Abdul Aziz Batibie (Knee injury) won’t be playing here.

💭 Prediction

We feel that in this game, Zira are certainly able to put one past this Sabah side, however that probably shouldn’t be enough to avoid a loss.

We can see a close game with a 2-1 winning margin for Sabah when the full-time whistle blows. Let’s wait and see how it plays out.

Peter Guest, 10:22 19/10/2025