Sabah Azerbaijan Makes European History with First-Ever Win Against Slavia Prague

Sabah Azerbaijan secured its first European victory, beating Slavia Prague 2-0 in its second Champions League match.

According to Sport Se, the history-making of the surprising representative of the Republic of Azerbaijan in Baku tonight will undoubtedly keep the people of Azerbaijan awake until the morning. Sabah made history tonight at Baku Olympic Stadium. The first European win in the history of the club with the brilliance of a Jamaican striker whose name is Paris!

Now, Azerbaijan does not have only one football team that has been able to win in the Champions League, and Sabah can now see itself in a team of the same size as Karabakh. The team was formed in 2017 and is only 9 years old.

With a 2-0 victory over Slavia Prague, Sabah Baku, as we said, became the second football team in the history of Azerbaijan, after Karabakh, to taste the victory in the European Champions League.

Before this match, Karabagh was the only representative of the Republic of Azerbaijan, whose name appeared in the list of winners of the European Champions League. But the concession of Karabagh is over and gone. Valdas Dambrauskas' men, ironically beaten 4-0 by Manchester United in the first week at Old Trafford, did a great job in their first ever Champions League home match, beating Slavia Prague 2-0.

Last week, some Azerbaijanis were worried about Sabah and after losing 4-0, they said that this newly established team should not spoil our reputation in Europe. But Sabah was honored tonight in Baku. What an honor!

Although the Czech representative created numerous scoring opportunities, the opportunism and accurate shots of the Sabah players gave the hosts the upper hand. Sabah's Jamaican winger Kehim Paris opened the opponent's goal once in the first half, but this goal was disallowed due to offside. Slavia Prague put heavy pressure on Sabah's goal by creating numerous opportunities, but Sabah's defenders pulled the ball off the goal line twice, and Stanislav Pokatilov, the defender of this team, prevented the opponent from scoring with his brilliant reactions.

The gates were finally unlocked by the genius of Paris. The Jamaican star scored the first goal in the history of Sabah club in the most prestigious club tournament in the world: Paris.

Regardless of the attractiveness of the name of Sabah's goal scorer, this team has a very interesting story on his bench that you should know! Valdas Dambrauskas, the Lithuanian head coach of this team, won the 1,000-euro prize of the famous television contest "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" years ago, and with this money he was able to pay for his coaching courses in England. A coach who fought tooth and nail to become a coach and get a degree recorded his name in football history tonight in Baku.

Sabah endured under the pressure of the opponent's heavy attacks and in the 89th minute, he shot a free kick against Slavia's body. Joey Lance Mikkels, the German striker of this team, took full advantage of the opponent's defensive line mistake and scored the second goal. It was in this way that the document of the first victory and three historical points of the representative of the Republic of Azerbaijan in the European Champions League was signed.

Baku won't sleep tonight until the morning because of Sabah and the fans of this team will celebrate their first European win.