DOHA. Al Sadd tops Al Duhail 3-1. Al Sadd got an early 2-0 lead with 2 goals from B. Bounedjah (41′) and Akram Afif (51′). Al Duhail tried to recover with a goal from Michael Olunga (73′). Notwithstanding, the match was closed by a goal (75′) scored by Rodrigo Barbosa Tabata for Al Sadd.
Al Sadd remained in players after Tarek Salman received a red card in the 88′.
The match was played at the Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Stadium stadium in Doha on Thursday and it started at 9:00 pm local time. The referee was Saoud Al Athbah with the collaboration of Juma Mohammed Al Burshaid and Abdulmajeed Hussain Al-Karbi. The 4th official was Nayef Mohamed El-Kadiri. The weather was clear. The temperature was hot at 28 degrees Celsius or 82.35 Fahrenheit. The humidity was 29%.
Match Statistics
Ball possession
No teams had a vastly superior advantage in terms of ball possession. Al Duhail was in possession of the ball for 48% of the time vs. Al Sadd that controlled the ball for 52% of the time.
Attitude and shots
Al Duhail was more pushing with 88 dangerous attacks and 15 shots of which 7 were on target. Nonetheless, Al Sadd succeeded in find the solution to win this match.
Al Duhail shot 15 times, 7 on target, 8 off target. Talking about the opposition, Al Sadd shot 14 times, 7 on target, 7 off target.
Cards
Al Duhail received 1 yellow card (Rúben Semedo). Talking about the opposition, Al Sadd received 2 yellow cards (Ali Asad and Meshaal Barsham).
Also, Al Sadd didn’t finish the match with 11 players after Tarek Salman (Al Sadd) was sent off after receiving a straight red card in the (88′).
Match Timeline
Standings
After this match, Al Duhail will stay with 48 points to sit in the 1st place. On the opposite side, Al Sadd will have 44 points to sit in the 3rd place.
Next matches
In the next match in the Premier League, Al Duhail will host Al Shamal on the 8th of May with a 5-0 head to head in favor of Al Duhail (0 draws).
Al Sadd will host Al Arabi on the 8th of May with a 26-8 head to head stats in favor of Al Sadd (6 draws).
Al Duhail – Formation
Al Duhail
55'
68'
73'
The manager Hernán Jorge Crespo decided to play with the following team: Salah Zakaria Hassan, Mohammed Musa Abbas Ali, Rúben Afonso Borges Semedo, Bassam Hisham Al Rawi, Yousef Ayman Hafez, Tae-Hee Nam, Karim Boudiaf, Luiz Mairton Carlos Júnior, Ferjani Sassi, Ismaeel Mohammad Mohammad and Michael Olunga Ogada.
The home team had on the bench: Abdulrahman Mohamed Fahmi Moustafa, Mohammed Al Bakri, Mohammed Muntari, Suhaib Gannan, Federico Fernández, Diyab Haroon Taha, Assim Omer Al Haj Madibo, Shehab Mamdouh Ellethy, Lotfi Rabh Majed, Ahmed Moein Doozandeh, Khalid Mohammed and Ali Hassan Afif Yahya.
Substitutions
Al Duhail made 3 changes: Bassam Al Rawi for Lotfi Majed (68′), Karim Boudiaf for Assim Madibo (69′) and Ferjani Sassi for Mohammed Muntari (80′).
Al Sadd – Formation
Al Sadd
88'
Juan Manuel Lillo Díez played with: Meshaal Aissa Barsham, Boualem Khoukhi, Pedro Miguel Correia, Tarek Salman Salman, Rodrigo Barbosa Tabata, Santiago Cazorla González, Guilherme dos Santos Torres, Ali Assadalla Thaimn Qambar, Hassan Khalid Al Heidos, Baghdad Bounedjah and Akram Hassan Afif.
The following players were sitting on the bench: Woo-Young Jung, Abdullah Badr Al Yazidi, Hashim Ali Abdullatif, Moaz Elwadia, Saad Abdullah Al Sheeb, Ayoub El Kaabi, Mahdi Almejaba, Bahaa Mamdouh Ellithi, Abdelrahman Rashid Gomaa, Mosaab Khoder Jibril and Ahmed Bader Sayyar.
Substitutions
Al Sadd made 3 changes: Hassan Al Haydos for Jung Woo-Young (90′), Ali Asad for Mosaab Khoder (90′) and Rodrigo Barbosa Tabata for Abdelrahman Rashid Gomaa (90′).
Results of the day
These are the results of the day in the Premier League.
