Today at midnight in Baku time at the Velodrome stadium, the first match of the Round Play-Off League of conferences between the local “Olympic Marselev” and Azerbaijani “Karabakh” will begin in French Marseil.
To judge the meeting will be a team of arbitrators from Montenegro led by Nikola Dabanovich.
Before, during and after playing in Marseille at the stadium and around it, increased security measures will be applied to avoid provocations from representatives of the Armenian diaspora in France. In this regard, Affa appealed to UEFA in advance and Focal Football Federation.
“Karabakh” became the first Azerbaijani club, which was able to overcome the group stage of European Cups, so that the match with Marsel will be historical for our football. In qualifications, the team of Gurban Gurbanova passed the Israeli “Ashdod” (0: 0, 1: 0), Cyprus Ael (1: 1, 1: 0) and Scottish Aberdeen (1: 0, 3: 1).
In the group stage “Karabakh” took 2nd place, failed to get ahead of the Swiss Basel. However, the horror error of the Croatian arbiter of Fran Yovich, when the purest goal of “Karabakh” was not counted, so far fresh in memory. In that match, “Karabakh” could already at the very beginning of the story in the account, but after the judicial arbitrariness will miss three goals and lost with a score of 0: 3. The first match with the Swiss, held in Baku, ended in a draw 0: 0.
Also in one group with the vice-champion of Azerbaijan were Cypriot “Omonia” (4: 1, 2: 2) and Kazakhstani “Kairat” (2: 1, 2: 1).
Having told the 2nd place in the group, “Karabakh” became a member of the Round Playoff. And “Basel” from the 1st position came out directly in the 1/8 finals.
“Marseille” began a performance with the group stage of the Europa League, where he took 3rd place in a quartet with Turkish “Galatasaram”, Italian “Lazio” and the Russian Lokomotiv. According to the new Rules of European Cup tournaments, the 3rd line gave “Marseil” the right to move to the conference league.
A response meeting between Karabakh and Marcel will take place on February 24 at the Republican Stadium named after Bakhramova.