The victory of Karabakh over the French Nanta with a score of 3-0 has become very significant for Azerbaijani football. For the first time, our team largely defeated the rival from the TOP-5 European national championships in European competitions, which, by tradition, are considered the English Premier League, the Spanish La Liga, the German Bundesliga, the Italian series A and the French League 1.
Azerbaijani clubs with teams from the TOP-5 held 44 matches. Before yesterday, there was only one victory in our asset. In the Europa League of the 2016/17 season, Gabala in Baku, thanks to the blue-now-speaking “Karabakh”, Philip Ozobich beat the French “Lille” (1: 0) and entered the playoff round (before that in France the teams played 1: 1) .
Nine times Azerbaijani clubs played with representatives of leading European countries, and the teams from the top 5.
won 33 times 33 times
Of these 44 matches 32 on the Karabakh account. Before yesterday’s meeting with the “nan” there were no victories of Gurban Gurbanov. In six games, a draw was recorded, in 25 – Agdams lost.
Thus, Karabakh was first able to beat an opponent from the five strongest continent championships. And it turned out right away!
At the group stage of European cups, where Karabakh made his way for the ninth time in a row, this is the third devastating victory performed by the champion of Azerbaijan. In 2019, Karabakh in the Europa League with a score of 4: 1 defeated the Luxembourg Dudalang, and last year, at the group stage of the conferences league, he prevailed over Cyprus Omonia. It is interesting that both victories were won away.