The starting squads of the national teams of Azerbaijan and Sweden, which will face each other in the qualifying round of EURO-2024, have been announced.
Axar.az reports that the teams will enter the field with the following "11s":
Azerbaijan: 1. Shahruddin Mahammadaliyev, 2. Rahil Mammadov, 4. Bahlul Mustafazade, 5. Anton Krivotsyuk, 3. Elvin Jafarguliyev, 7. Joshgun Diniyev, 20. Aleksey Isayev, 8. Emin Mahmudov (k), 11. Ramil Sheydayev, 17. Toral Bayramov, 9. Renat Dadashov
Head coach: Gianni De Byazi
Sweden: 1. Robin Olsen, 13. Ken Sema, 4. Filip Helander, 3. Viktor Lindelöf (k), 14. Linus Valqvist, 10. Emil Forsberg, 18. Samuel Gustafsson, 9. Jens Kayuste, 19. Matthias Svanberg, 21. Deyan Kulusevski, 17. Viktor Gyökeres
Head coach: Yanne Anderson
It should be noted that today's match, which will take place at the Republic Stadium named after Tofig Bahramov, will start at 21:00. After 6 games, our team is in the 4th place with 4 points, and the guests are in the third place with 7 points.
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The match started at 21:00 Baku time.
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In the 3rd minute of the match, the player of our national team Emin Mahmudov opened the score: 1 - 0
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In the 6th minute, Renat Dadashov scored the next goal for our team: 2 - 0
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In the 89th minute, Emin Mahmudov once again distinguished himself and scored the 3rd goal through the opponent's goal: 3 - 0.
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The match at the Republic Stadium named after Tofig Bahramov ended with a 3:0 victory for our team.
Thus, for the first time in history, our team defeated the representative of Scandinavia. With this result, our national team equalized the number of points with Sweden. Both teams currently have 7 points.
It should be noted that the Azerbaijani team will play the last match of the qualifying round against Belgium. The game, which will take place in Brussels on November 19, will start at 21:00 Baku time.