Al Ain clinch a thriller

With this win, Al Ain FC topped the standings with four points and they will play their last match against Al Shabab club of Oman. The first half of the game ended 3-2 in Al Ain’s favour. Faisel Ali put Al Ain ahead in the 22^nd minute and Ahmed Abdulla Al Shamsi added the second goal in 26^th minute. Abdul Aziz Fayez scored the third in the 30^th minute.

Eithad rallied brilliantly with Roben Oskar scoring in the 42^nd minute and Jod Firenio adding the second just before half-time.

It was game on as Eithad levelled it in the 65^th minute through Biber Koko. But Soufiane Alloudi scored the match-winner for Al Ain in the 70^th minute of the entertaining encounter.

Meanwhile, in the other game, Al Shabab of Oman beat Riffa of Bahrain 3-2.

Ali Al Siabi (23^rd), Musalam Khaseef (54^th) and Mohamed Taleb (77^th ) scored for Al Shabab, while Abdul Rahaman Mubarak scored for Riffa in the 32^nd and 51^st minutes.

Teams:

Al Ain FC: Daoud Suleiman , Abdul Salam Mohamed , Khaled Abdul Rahman , Mohamed Aied , Fawzi Fayez , Ahmed Abdulla , Shehab Ahmed , Faisel Ali , Sofian Al Loudi , Abdul Aziz Fayez, Mohamed Abdul Rahman.

Al Eithad: Yasser Jarkes, Majed Hamsi, Omer Hamidi, Salah Shahrour, Ahmed Haj Mohamed , Yousif Aseel , Taha Diab , Roben Oskar , Moshed Ayan , Jod Firenio, Abdul Gader Daka.

Al Shabab: Abdul Kareem Al Hawsani , Asaad Hadeeb , Ebrahim Jaber , Mutaaeb Abdulla, Murshid Khamis , Majdi Subait , , Darwish Jumaa , Naeem Salem , Mohamed Ali , Ahmed Hamad, Mohamed Mubarak.

Riffa: Mahmoud Mansour , Abdulla Abdul Rahman , Ismaeil Saleh , Hassan Khamis, Rashid Mohamed , Nedal Ismail , Hassan Salman , Hamad Al Anzi , Abdul Rahman Mubarak , Mohamed Al Deaij, De Seili.

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