he former captain of the Russian national team and Spartak Egor Titov announced his favorite between the Qarabag - Bayer match to be held today.
Idman.biz reports that the football veteran considers the German club superior in the match of the Europa League R16 final stage.
However, Titov also admitted that Qarabag is a fighting team: "Qarabag fought very well against Bayer in the group stage. In the game in Baku, the Germans scored the winning goal from a penalty only in extra time. It is clear that the advantage of the game and the number of scoring opportunities created were on the side of Bayer. But the Azerbaijan club made a very good impression. In general, it is a decent team. Aghdam club did not exclude the experienced Braga from the competition in the last stage for nothing. With 10 people, they achieved their goal in overtime."
Titov said that Qarabag, which is impressive with its game, is not strong enough to compete with the current Bayer: "But I still don't think that Qarabag has a chance in this pair. Bayer has become a more pragmatic team during the season. They don't score 4-5 goals per game anymore, they save their energy somewhere. Instead, they concede quite a few goals. Bayer's favorite result is 2:0. Of course, Qarabag will try to play actively and press Leverkusen. But to be honest, Bayer has become such a machine that it cannot be stopped."
It should be noted that the first game between Qarabag and Bayer will start at 21:45.
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