Argentine Federico Cartabia scored one goal and assisted another to lead his Shabab Al-Ahly team to qualify for the quarter-finals of the President’s Cup football competition, after defeating its host Dibba Al-Hisn with two clean goals, yesterday.
Cartabia needed only two minutes to score the lead goal in the sixth minute after a powerful shot from inside the penalty area, before he made the second goal from a corner kick that he sent with a measured shot over the head of his colleague Serdar Azmoun, who converted it into the net in the eighth minute.
The crossbar and the post prevented Shabab Al-Ahly from adding two more goals.
During the subsequent minutes of the confrontation, the visitors controlled the entire course of events, and were the most dangerous, especially since the two early goals frustrated the home team’s resolve during their attempt to return to the match.
As time passed, the Portuguese coach of the Dubai Knights, Paulo Sousa, was reassured about the result, and began to think about the upcoming matches awaiting his team, most notably the match between Kuwait and Kuwait in the AFC Champions League 2, where he made four substitutions, removing the main pillars of the team, Cartabia, Sardar, Yuri Cesar and Riquelme Rocha.
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