Sport24.az
Azerbaijan national team will play its second match in the qualifying round of DC-2026 today. Sport24.az reports that the national team hosts Ukraine within "native walls".
Fernandu Santos, the head coach of the national team, who was defeated by Iceland with a big score (0:5) in the first match of the qualifying round, was dismissed yesterday. Therefore, the team will take to the field today under the leadership of Aykhan Abbasov, the head coach of U-21.
It should be noted that the starting whistle of the game will sound at 20:00.
DC-2026, qualifying round
II round
Group D
20:00. Azerbaijan - Ukraine 1:1 (Second half)
Goal: Giorgi Sudakov, 51, Emin Mahmudov, 72, (pen)
Main referee: Vassilis Fotias (Greece)
Baku. Tofig Bahramov Republican Stadium
Azerbaijan: 1. Shahruddin Mahammadaliyev, 21. Gismat Aliyev, 14. Elvin Badalov, 4. Bahlul Mustafazade, 5. Anton Krivotsyuk, 3. Elvin Jafarguliyev, 15. Abdulla Khaybulayev, 8. Emin Mahmudov (k), 19. Rustam Ahmadzadeh, 10. Mahir Emreli, 9. Renat Dadashov
Head coach: Aykhan Abbasov
Ukraine: 12. Anatoli Trubin, 17. Oleksandr Zinchenko, 22. Mykola Matviyenko (k), 13. Ilya Zabarnyi, 2. Yukhim Konoplia, 19. Artem Bondarenko, 6. Ivan Kalyuzhny, 14. Oleh Ocheretko, 8. Giorgi Sudakov, 20. Oleksandr Zubkov, 7. Vladyslav Vanat
Head coach: Serhiy Rebrov
