The Emirati team Al Wasl came from behind to win at the expense of Al Gharafa with two goals to one in the match that brought the two teams together last evening at Al Bayt World Cup Stadium in the third round of the AFC Champions League for the elite. Al Wasl scored two goals for Lima in the 84th minute and Isaac in the 90th minute, while Al Wasl scored two goals for Lima in the 84th minute and Isaac in the 90th minute. The Panthers’ only goal was Ferjani Sassi in the 44th minute, and with that result, Al Wasl’s tally reached 6 points, while Al Gharafa’s tally stopped at 3 points.
As for the first half, control was largely equal, with Al Gharafa having a relative advantage, especially after the middle of the first half, with the spaces being tightly closed by both teams, which led to the scarcity of many chances in the first half. The first attempts at goal to reach the goal were in the 11th minute from Ali Saleh, who His header came wide of the goal, and Al-Gharafa responded with a shot from Fabricio in the 15th minute, which came outside the goal. Al-Gharafa tried from deep and to the side and wasted two chances from the Spanish striker Joselu in the 28th and 34th minutes. Al-Gharafa’s pressure continued, which led to scoring the first goal in the 44th minute by Tunisian Ferjani Sassi. After Coman’s cross, Al-Wasl player Seferovic failed to clear it and it reached Sassi, who put it on his knee, so the first half ended with the Panthers leading by an unanswered goal.
The second half began with Al-Wasl pressing to score an equaliser, and they tried more than once through Lima and the rest of the players, while Al-Gharafa’s attacks were dangerous and they almost scored the second goal through Joselu in the 60th minute after an organized attack that started from Brahimi, passing through Koeman, and then Joselu, whose opportunity came just next to the post. Minutes later, Ferjani Sassi missed an unmissable opportunity with a header while he was alone in front of the goal, amidst grief from the team’s coach Martinez. Al-Wasl responded to these attempts with a missile shot through Salem Al-Azizi that came over the crossbar, and the rest of the match witnessed fiery events amid the desire of the two teams, Al-Gharafa, to strengthen the progress and Al-Wasl. To equalize, and in the 84th minute, Al-Wasl came back with a goal from Lima from a penalty kick. Al-Wasl did not calm down, but continued its efforts to win and wasted an opportunity achieved in the 90th minute by the player Jung, which was brilliantly blocked by goalkeeper Rico. In an organized attack, Al-Wasl scored the winning goal with a fatal goal in the 2nd minute. 90 through substitute player Sixes Isaac, who scored his first goal for the team after joining 3 days ago, so the confrontation ended with Al Wasl winning by two goals to one.
10 professional players
Al-Gharafa’s starting lineup at the start of the confrontation against Al-Wasl of the Emirates yesterday in the AFC Champions League for the elite included the presence of 10 professional players, namely goalkeeper Rico, Tunisian Wajdi Kachrida, Senegalese Seydou Sano, Argentine Nani, Tunisian Ferjani Sassi, Uruguayan Fabricio, Icelandic Aron, Spaniard Joselu, Romanian Koeman, and Algerian Yacine Brahimi. The player was The only citizen is Saif al-Din Fadlallah.
Gifting a memorial shield
Rashid Issa Al-Dosari, CEO of Al-Gharafa Club, presented the club’s shield to the representative of the Emirati Al-Wasl Club, Ahmed Al-Tunaihi, a member of the club’s board of directors and supervisor of the first team, before the start of the two teams’ match yesterday at Al-Bayt World Cup Stadium in the third round of the AFC Champions League elite competitions.
Panthers in the stands
The Gharfawi fans were keen to raise a banner bearing pictures of the Panthers in the stands of the Al-Bayt World Cup Stadium, before the start of their team’s match against Al-Wasl of the Emirates, and sent a message to the players that this is our time to achieve victory in the match, but the team was not successful in achieving victory and lost for the second time in the tournament after the first loss. In front of Iranian independence
The VAR returns the link
Al-Wasl was able to score the equalizer in the 84th minute through the player Lima from a penalty kick, after it was awarded by the referee of the match, who returned to the VAR technology, which revealed the presence of a handball on the player Abdullah Sir Al-Khatm after Lima’s shot in the 79th minute, hitting Sir Al-Khatam’s hand. This caused the penalty kick to be awarded.