Zira go into this game coming off the back of a 0-0 Premyer Liqasi stalemate against Turan Tovuz.
Over their prior 6 fixtures, Rashad Sadygov's Zira have netted a total of 7 times resulting in an average number of goals per match of 1.17.
After being defeated in their last game at the hands of Sumgayit in Premyer Liqasi competition, Gabala and their fans will hope to get a better result this time.
Rüstəm Əhmədzadə (54') and Alexandre Ramalingom (81') scored for Sumgayit.
The strike force from Gabala have been starved of goals over their previous 6 clashes, recording the unsatisfactory return of just 2. In those matches, Dağ canavarı have also seen the collective goal aggregate against them equal 10. Despite that, time will tell if the trend will continue on in this next match or not.
Inspecting their prior head to head clashes dating back to 07/04/2023 shows us that Zira have won 3 of them & Gabala 2, with the number of drawn results being 1.
In all, 14 goals were produced between them in this period, with 9 of them from Qartallar and 5 for Dağ canavarı. The average goals per game has been 2.33.
The last league match featuring the two was Premyer Liqasi match day 2 on 25/08/2025 when it ended Gabala 1-2 Zira.
Our thinking is that Zira will, in all likelihood, be able to create a decent number of chances and shots on target.
However, Gabala will not find it easy to make a breakthrough although we do see them converting at least once here, too.
We’re therefore expecting to see a decent 3-1 winning margin for Zira at the conclusion of the game.