Neftçi 1-2 Balzan: result and report

Europa League · Thursday 7 July 2016

Result

Neftçi 1-2 Balzan

Europa League · Thursday 7 July 2016, 16:00 UTC · half-time 1-0

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Neftçi 1-2 Balzan: match report

Neftçi were beaten by Balzan 1-2 in the Europa League on Thursday 7 July 2016. It was 1-0 at half-time.

Jairo Rodrigues opened the scoring in the 20th minute. Neftçi's goal came from Jairo Rodrigues (20'). Balzan scored through Lydon Micallef (51') and Lydon Micallef (67').

Discipline: Neftçi received 3 yellow cards; Balzan received 7 yellow cards.

This fixture belongs to an earlier Europa League season and is kept for reference.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Neftçi win, 0 draws and 0 for Balzan.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 20'Goal · Jairo RodriguesNeftçi · 1-0
  • 45'Yellow card · D. GrimaBalzan
  • 51'Goal · Lydon MicallefBalzan · 1-1
  • 53'Yellow card · Jairo RodriguesNeftçi
  • 57'Yellow card · Dario MelnjakNeftçi
  • 67'Goal · Lydon MicallefBalzan · 1-2
  • 72'Yellow card · E. AbdullayevNeftçi
  • 83'Yellow card · Clive BrincatBalzan
  • 85'Yellow card · Elkin Orlando SerranoBalzan
  • 86'Yellow card · DêBalzan
  • 86'Yellow card · P. FenechBalzan
  • 86'Yellow card · B. KaljevićBalzan
  • 90+6'Yellow card · Justin GrioliBalzan

Head-to-head

1 meetings: Neftçi 1, draws 0, Balzan 0.

Team news

Neftçi line-up

Krševan Santini, Jairo Rodrigues, Vanche Shikov, Maqsad İsayev, Dario Melnjak, Araz Abdullayev, Elshan Abdullayev, Murad Ağayev, Rahman Hacıyev, Edson Castillo, Ruslan Qurbanov

Balzan line-up

Christian Cassar, Justin Grioli, Steven Bezzina, Elkin Orlando Serrano, Oliveira, Paul Fenech, Borche Manevski, Dylan Grima, Dê, Alfred Effiong, Bojan Kaljević