Al-Wasl of the United Arab Emirates scored two late goals in the second half to overturn a one-goal deficit to a 2-1 victory over host Al-Gharafa of Qatar in the group stage of the AFC Champions League for Elite Football on Tuesday, raising its score to the sixth point and jumping to fifth place in the overall standings of the tournament.
Al-Gharafa took the lead through its Tunisian player, Ferjani Sassi, who took advantage of an error in clearing the ball from Al-Wasl player Haris Seferovic, to put the ball into the goal (44).
But Al-Wasl struck with an iron hand in the second half and was able to equalize from a penalty kick caused by Fabio Lima when he shot it towards the goal and it hit the hand of defender Abdullah Youssef, and the South Korean referee of the match, Hyung-Jan Ko, awarded it, after returning to the (VAR) technique to implement it successfully. “83”, and in stoppage time, substitute Isaac Success was able to take advantage of Jimenez’s cross to score the second goal for Al Wasl “90+2”.
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