Qarabag – BATE Prediction & Picks (07.08.2018)

Qarabağ and BATE meet at Tofiq Bəhramov adına Respublika stadionu, in a match for this phase of the UEFA Champions League (3rd Qualifying Round). This will be the first direct confrontation between these two teams, as they have never faced each other before. Attention to the house factor, since the Qarabağ usually conquer different results at home and abroad.

Qarabağ:

Until reaching this stage of the UEFA Champions League (3rd Qualifying Round), the home team eliminated: Kukësi and Olimpija. This is a team that, oddly enough, has had better results in away matches than at home, since in the last 30 matches they register 7 wins, 5 draws and 3 losses in away matches; against 7 wins, 4 draws and 4 defeats in his stadium. In their last 10 home matches the Qarabağ recorded 4 wins, 3 draws and 3 losses.

For this competition, they have not lost any of the last 4 matches. The team has presented great defensive solidity, since it did not suffer any goal in the last 4 matches for this competition. In their home matches there is a tendency for few goals, since 13 of the last 25 matches have ended with Under 1,5 goals and 19 out of 25 have ended with Under 2,5 goals.

The Karabakh Agdam is a club that has already won the Supreme League (championship of Azerbaijan) six times in its history, being the most recent title conquered in the season of 2017/18. In the last season, the team was national champion, with a great advantage over the classified classified, and that’s why it qualified for the previous rounds of the Champions League this season. In the last five games that Karabakh Agdam played in his stadium, there were at least 1.5 goals in the first half in all these matches. We believe that this match, being the first leg of this tie and an important competition like the Champions League, as well as the history of the home team, the Karabakh Agdam will return to make a game with few goals, especially in the first half .

BATE:

The away team comes to this phase of the UEFA Champions League (3rd Qualifying Round) after having eliminated HJK Helsinki, with a win by (1-2) away and a draw by (0-0) at home in the previous round . This is a team that usually maintains its competitive level in home and away matches, since in the last 30 matches he has 10 wins, 3 draws and 2 losses as a visitor; against 10 wins, 3 draws and 2 losses at their stadium. In the last 10 away matches for all competitions, BATE has won 8, tied 1 and lost 1. Their offense has scored frequently, since they have scored goals in 8 of the last 10 matches. This is a team that usually does not feel difficult to open the scoring: it scored the first goal in 12 of the last 15 games, of these 12 it reached the break in advantage in 7 and managed to maintain the advantage until the end of the 90 ‘in 8 In the last 13 home matches for all competitions there is 1 period highlighted: scored 10 of their 19 goals between the minutes (16’-30 ‘).

Bate Borisov is a club from Belarus that has won fourteen Premier League titles, the last one in 2017, and won two Cups and seven Super Cups in Belarus. In the 2017 season, Bate Borisov was the champion of the Premier League (Belarusian Championship), thus ensuring a place in the previous rounds of the UEFA Champions League. Now, Bate Borisov visits the Karabakh land, a team that has a very defensive behavior when playing at home, so, we believe that in this game there will be few goals, mainly in the first half, as such, our suggestion of betting on this game will be in favor of less than 1.5 goals in the first half.