The Azerbaijani national team hosted Ukraine today as part of the World Cup qualifying round.
Offsideplus.az reports that Aykhan Abbasov has led our national team to this match. He replaced Fernando Santos, who was dismissed yesterday.
The match started at 20:00 Baku time. Although the first goal in the match was scored by the opposing team, Emin Mahmudov scored from a penalty kick in the 72nd minute: 1:1. Thus, our team earned its first point in Group D.
It should be noted that the Azerbaijani national team lost to Iceland 0:5 in the first match of Group D.
World Cup 2026, qualifying round
September 9
20:00 Azerbaijan - Ukraine 1:1
Goals: Emin Mahmudov, 72. (pen.) - Georgi Sudakov 51.
