DOHA. Al Wakrah overcome Al Sadd to win 2-1. D. Gelson was the key player for his team after scoring 2 goals. All goals were scored in the second half. It was Al Wakrah to strike first with a goal of D. Gelson at the 73′. Then it was a penalty in the 86′ minute to make things even for 1-1. Eventually, D. Gelson gave the win to Al Wakrah in the 88′ minute with a goal scoring a double.
The match was played at the Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Stadium stadium in Doha on Wednesday and it started at 8:15 pm local time. The referee was Abdulrahman Ibrahim Al Jassim with the collaboration of Taleb Salem Al Marri and Saoud Ahmed Al Maqaleh. The 4th official was Khalid Abdulla Nabet. The weather was clear. The temperature was extremely hot at 34 degrees Celsius or 93.15 Fahrenheit. The humidity was 70%.
Match Statistics
Ball possession
There was not much difference in terms of ball possession. Al Wakrah 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 Wakrah had a more offensive attitude with 62 dangerous attacks and 17 shots of which 5 were on target. This is one of the reasons why Al Wakrah won the match.
Al Wakrah shot 17 times, 5 on target, 12 off target. Talking about the opposition, Al Sadd shot 14 times, 5 on target, 9 off target.
Cards
Al Wakrah received 3 yellow cards (I. Mahmoud, T. Sainsbury and S. Mubarak). On the other side, Al Sadd received 2 yellow cards (Guilherme and R. Tabata).
Match Timeline
Standings
After this match, Al Wakrah will have 15 points to hold in the 2nd place. On the opposite side, Al Sadd will stay with 7 points like Umm Salal to hold in the 9th place.
Next matches
Al Wakrah – Formation
The manager Bartolomé Márquez López decided to play with the following team: Saoud Mubarak, Lucas Mendes, Murad Naji Hussein, T. Sainsbury, O. Ebrahimi, Hamad Mansour, Omar Ali, Ismail Mahmoud, M. Benyettou, Gelson Dala and Khald Youssef Shurrab.
The home team had on the bench: Mohamed Ramdan, Abdallah Hussein Al Muftah, Mohamad Abdulnaser Alabbasi, Mohamed Saeed, Yaseen Lafrid, Nabil Irfan, Ebrahim Al Sadek, Abdulghani Muneer Mazeed, Sauoud Ebrahim and Mohamed Khaled.
Substitutions
Al Wakrah made 5 changes: I. Mahmoud for M. K. Hassan (60′), O. Ali for A. Mazeed (77′), D. Gelson for Sauoud Ebrahim (90′), H. Rajah for M. A. Alabbasi (90′) and H. Rajah for M. A. Alabbasi (90′).
Al Sadd – Formation
Juan Manuel Lillo Díez played with: Ivanildo, Rodrigo Barbosa Tabata, Santi Cazorla, Guilherme, Jung Woo-Young, Bahaa Ellithi, Hashim Ali, Abdullah Badr Al Yazidi, Ahmad Al Saeed, A. Ayew and B. Bounedjah.
The following players were sitting on the bench: Nayef Hamid, Talal Abdulla Bahzad, Moaz Elwadia, Mohamed Naceur Almanai, Abdelrahman Rashid Gomaa, Faisal Azadi, Abdulla Ibrahim, Mouaz Gadelseed Abdalla, Jehad Mohammad Hudib, Mohammed Al-Quraishi and Abdulrahman Al-Ameen.
Substitutions
Al Sadd decided to remain with the initial team without doing any substitution.
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