📊 Form Guide

Sumgayit

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Sumgayit will play in this match following on from a 2-2 Premyer Liqasi draw versus Neftçi.

For Sumgayit, the goalscorers were Nsana Simon (74') and Səbuhi Abdullazadə (81'). Imad Faraj (34') and Bassala Sambou (50') scored for Neftçi.

Fixtures featuring Sumgayit have often been entertaining affairs recently with a lot of goalmouth action anticipated. Over their past 6 clashes, the sum of 21 goals have gone in for both teams combined (at an average of 3.5 goals per game) with 12 of them accredited to Sumgayit. We will just have to see if that trend can be continued on in this game.

Sabah

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Sabah come into this encounter following a 2-1 Premyer Liqasi win with the defeat of Qarabağ in their previous outing.

For Sabah, the scorers were Joy-Lance Mickels (52') and Aaron Malouda (88'). Leandro Andrade (9') was the scorer for Qarabağ.

A run of reliable performances by the Sabah defensive unit has resulted in the number of goals they’ve conceded amounting to 3 from their past 6 fixtures combined. During the same time, their forwards have scored 13.

↔️ Head to head

A glance at their most recent head-to-head clashes going back to 18/05/2024 tells us that Sumgayit have won 1 of them and Sabah 2, with the number of drawn games standing at 3.

In all, 15 goals were produced between them in this period, with 6 of them for Sumgayit and 9 being from Sabah. The average goals per game has been 2.5.

The previous league clash between the two was Premyer Liqasi match day 6 on 28/09/2025 when it ended Sabah 1-1 Sumgayit.

📰 Team News: Sumgayit

Aykhan Süleymanly (Cruciate ligament injury), Emil Mustafayev (unknown injury) and Easah Suliman (unknown injury) won’t be available for Sumgayit boss Samir Abbasov.

📋 Team News: Sabah

Sabah boss Krunoslav Rendulić has to contend with a number of unavailable players. Njegos Kupusovic (unknown injury), Zinédine Ould Khaled (unknown injury) and Pavol Safranko (Cruciate ligament tear) miss out here.

✨ Prediction

For this match, we think that Sumgayit will surely be able to breach the defence of this Sabah team, but a single goal is unlikely to be enough to avoid a loss.

We are therefore anticipating a tight encounter finishing with a 1-2 victory for Sabah by the conclusion of the game.

Victor Martins, 12:01 22/12/2025