Sharjah regained the lead in the ADNOC Professional Football League from Shabab Al Ahli, after defeating Khor Fakkan with a clean goal, yesterday, in the 12th round, which saw Al Jazira draw with Al Wahda without goals, which is the same result for the match between Al Wasl and Baniyas.
Fatal win
Sharjah succeeded in returning to the path of victories again with a fatal victory over its guest Khor Fakkan, raising its score to 31 points, two points ahead of its direct rival Shabab Al-Ahly, while Khor Fakkan’s score froze at 14 points in ninth place.
“The King” waited until the 89th minute, when substitute Tyrone Conrad was able to score the only goal of the match, created by the other substitute, Paco Alcacer, who took advantage of a defensive error and delivered a cross to the goal post, which Conrad put into the net.
Sharjah played its fewest matches this season, and most of its players appeared out of service, especially the trio Caio Lucas, Firas Belarabi, and Othman Kamara, as the threat was absent except for some individual attempts that were not successful, at a time when Khor Fakkan presented an ideal performance and closed the openings leading to the goal. Goalkeeper Ahmed Al Hosani, relying on transformations that exhausted Sharjah’s defense.
“Mouse” interventions
The clash between neighbors Al-Jazira and Al-Wahda ended without goals, after a match in which “VAR” was the main headline for the most prominent events of the first half, after Al-Jazira was deprived of the lead after a goal scored by Vinicius Melo from a header following a Gamsa cross, but “VAR” discovered that there was a mistake on Ramon. Merez against one of Al Wahda’s defenders.
“Al-FAR” returned to cancel a decision awarded by referee Ahmed Salem that there was a penalty kick in favor of Al-Wahda, after the ball touched the hand of defender Khalifa Al-Hammadi, after it became clear that the ball touched the hand of striker Omar Kharbin before he shot and was prevented by Al-Jazira’s defender. The “VAR” continued its interventions in the second half, and the referee gave the green light by granting Al-Wahda defender Alaa El-Din Zuhair the red card, and canceling the yellow card that he had shown to him at the beginning, after a rough intervention against Bruno de Oliveira. The confrontation was enthusiastic and open to all possibilities on the part of the two teams to score the three points, and Al-Wahda obtained several opportunities, the most prominent of which was a set-piece from a special place on the edge of the box, which Omar Khribin shot over the crossbar, and Nabil Fekir also threatened goalkeeper Rashid Ali with a shot that went over the crossbar.
First point
Baniyas won its first point at the beginning of the new era with its Romanian coach, Daniel Isaella, after imposing a scoreless draw on its guest, Al Wasl.
The first half was calm and without any noteworthy events, but opportunities came prominently in the second period, as the crossbar responded to a powerful shot fired by Al-Samawi player Lazar Markovic, and the post dealt with a similar shot by Al-Wasl player Fabio Lima.
The most prominent opportunity in the match was from Baniyas striker Youssef Nyakati alone, but it was saved by goalkeeper Khaled Al-Sanani.
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