QARABAG AGDAM FK – EINTRACHT FRANKFURT
Kick-off: Thursday (22 August 2013), 18.00 CET
Venue: Tofiq Bahramov Stadium in Baku (Azerbaijan)
Referee: Szymon Marciniak (POL)
POSSIBLE LINE-UPS
QARABAG: Veliyev - Garayev, Medvedev, Sadygov, Guseynov - George, Gurbanov, Muarem, Reynaldo - Nadirov, Gelashvili
Manager: Gurban Gurbanov
EINTRACHT: Trapp - Schröck, Zambrano, Anderson, Ozcipka - Aigner, Rode, Flum, Inui - Meier, Lakic
Manager: Armin Veh
Missing: Due to injuries, Eintracht's skipper Pirmin Schwegler and right-back Sebastian Jung did not fly to Baku. Eintracht's new signing Václav Kadlec is not allowed to play for SGE in the play-off round.
STADIUM
The match will take place in Baku’s Tofiq Bahramov Stadium. The stadium serves as the home ground for the Azerbaijan national football team and holds 31,200 seats, making it the largest stadium in Azerbaijan. It was built in 1951. Its construction started before the second World War in 1939. Initially the stadium was named after Joseph Stalin, later after Vladimir Lenin, and in 1993, the stadium was named after Tofiq Bahramov who died in the same year.
Tofiq Bahramov was a Soviet Union-Azerbaijan football referee. He gained international recognition for being the linesman who helped to award a goal for England in the 1966 FIFA World Cup Final against West Germany. This goal, a ghost goal, is remembered in Germany as the so-called “Wembley-Tor”. (“Tor” means “goal” in German, Wembley Stadium was the stadium were the final took place.) Decades after the final, a study conducted by the university of Oxford revealed that the ball did not cross the goal line – in contrast to what Tofiq Bahramov had signaled referee Gottfried Dienst.
Since the final, Bahramov has been celebrated in England as “the Russian linesman“. When England played against Azerbaijan in a World Cup qualifier in Tofiq Bahramov Stadium in October 2004 many England fans asked to be shown the grave of Bahramov, so that they could place flowers on it. Before the game a ceremony honouring Bahramov was attended, among others, by Geoff Hurst, the English striker who scored the ghost goal in Wembley.
LIVE MATCH INFO
You can follow live updates via the English language live text commentary. All key events such as goals, shots, subs, fouls, cards and so on will be posted as and when they happen. Click HERE from kick-off onwards.
LIVE TV COVERAGE
In Germany, the match will be broadcast by hessian television channel “hr” (Hessischer Rundfunk). The broadcast starts at 17.50 CET.
SOCIAL MEDIA
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