Al-Gharafa and Al-Ahly teams tied with a goal each, during the match that brought the two teams together at Thani Bin Jassim Stadium in Al-Gharrafa Club, as part of the sixteenth week matches of the QNB Stars League competitions, yesterday evening. Algeria’s Mahdi Tahrat scored the lead goal for Al-Gharafa in the 30th minute, before Abdul Rashid Ibrahim scored the equalizing goal for Al-Ahly in the 66th minute. The match witnessed the dismissal of Al-Ahly player Sofiane Hani in the 90 + 7 minute.
The beginning of the match was enthusiastic and balanced between the two teams, and neither of them succeeded in imposing their control over the ball in front of the other. The pulse-checking period lasted until the first ten minutes, which did not witness a real danger to the two goals. Abdul Rashid Ibrahim was the most active player in the match, and succeeded in his incursions from the right side in threatening Al-Gharafa’s goal, but Omar Siko and Sufyan Hani did not take advantage of Abdul Rashid’s crosses in the appropriate way. Al-Gharafa took advantage of the offensive rush of Al-Ahly players, so that Algerian Mahdi Taharat scored the goal of progress in the 30th minute, after the successful incursion of Ahmed Al-Janhi from the middle, before he passed to Farid Wilayat on the right side, who played a cross that was met by Taharat with a powerful shot that entered the left corner of Al-Ahly’s goal. Al-Gharafa defender Asloum almost added the second goal in the 40th minute, after Yassin Ibrahimi crossed from the right side, but the player did not take advantage of the opportunity.
And from a quick attack in the 66th minute, Abdul Rashid Ibrahim scored the equalizing goal for Al-Ahly, with a powerful shot from inside the penalty area, which hit the far right corner of Al-Gharafa’s goal, scoring the equalizer for his team. With this tie, Al-Gharafa reached 23 points in fifth place, while Al-Ahly raised its score to 21 points in seventh place.
Nebosha: We deserved the match points Nebosha Jović, coach of the football team at Al-Ahly Club, expressed his regret over the many opportunities his team missed in their match against Al-Gharafa in the sixteenth round of the QNB Stars League. He said that Al-Ahly deserved to get the full points from the match, not a draw, in comparison to the chances that the team created in the second half. He added that Al-Ahly created more than five chances that would have ensured its exit as a winner, but the team did not succeed in scoring more than one goal, indicating that the team was the best in the match for its entire second half, and also created several chances in the first half, pointing out that the team succeeded in keeping Al-Gharafa under pressure. He did not pose any threat to Al-Ahly’s goal in the second part of the match.
