Safá Baku and Mil-Mugan met in the Azerbaijan Premier League's third round on 29 August, and the visitors took all three points with a 1-0 victory. It was a tight affair where Mil-Mugan edged things on the counter, and here's the thing — the result feels right for how the game unfolded rather than for the numbers on paper.
The only goal came in the 55th minute when S. Faracov found the net for Mil-Mugan. By then both sides had been feeling each other out, and the away side struck when Safá Baku pushed forward. That single moment decided everything, which is how these games often do when neither team dominates possession.
Mil-Mugan were slightly more active, registering 71 attacks to Safá Baku's 55, and they won six corners against one. The visitors took three shots on target while the hosts managed none — you can see why the goal felt inevitable even if the shot count doesn't tell the whole story. A yellow card for Deco at 70 minutes showed the home side growing desperate as the clock ticked down.
Both managers made several changes, with Safá Baku bringing on Luis Felipe, D. Mertens and B. Dansoko in the 76th minute before swapping Faracov for Yusifli in the 88th. Mil-Mugan had earlier introduced Huseynli at 56 and Nabiyev at 67, trying to find another edge. The substitutions didn't change the outcome, but they kept the tension alive until the final whistle.
Mil-Mugan now sit fourth with four points from three games, while Safá Baku remain seventh on three points after one win and two defeats. The visitors have been inconsistent — they lost 3-1 to Zira in their last outing but drew with Araz before that — yet they showed enough composure to hold on here. The gap between them and the hosts remains narrow, and this result keeps both sides within reach of each other in the table.