Pakhtakor took all three points on the road with a 3-1 victory over Olmaliq in the Superleague Regular Season on Tuesday evening. The result moves the visitors closer to the top of the table while leaving the hosts in fifth place, twenty-two points behind the leaders.
A. Hussein gave Olmaliq the shock start on four minutes, but the home side could not maintain that advantage. G. Papava had a goal cancelled by VAR for offside on seventeen minutes, and then I. Ibrokhimov restored parity on twenty-four minutes before the break.
We had called an away win in our preview with moderate confidence, and Pakhtakor found a way through when it mattered. D. Khamdamov broke the deadlock on sixty-five minutes, and G. Papava finally got his goal on eighty-one minutes to seal the result.
Pakhtakor showed the composure of a team with only one defeat from twenty matches. Olmaliq have won nine games this season but lack the consistency to challenge at the summit, and that gap showed clearly on the evening.
Both sides made changes in the second half, with six substitutions recorded between sixty-six and eighty-one minutes. S. Toirov, I. Ibrokhimov and S. Sobirkhuzhaev all picked up yellow cards during the contest.
The visitors extend their run of results at the top end of the table, while Olmaliq will need to find more consistency. They sit thirty-two points from the peak with twenty games played, and the distance remains significant.
