The Bani Yas team achieved a big-surprise surprise by eliminating Al-Ahly youth team (the defending champions) from the President’s Cup quarter-final, after beating it with a clean goal yesterday, at Khalifa Bin Zayed Stadium in Al Ain, with 446 spectators in attendance.
The "heavenly" striker of Kazakhstan, Richard Oliveira, who scored the only goal of the penalty kick in the minute (3 + 45), renewed the painful memories of the "Knights", repeating the bitterness of the loss in the 2008 edition when his team succeeded then, while in the amateur league, in stripping the team itself of The title was early in the round of 16, with a 1-0 victory over Senegalese striker Baba George.
On the other hand, the suffering of Al-Ahly youth continued not to win since the beginning of this February, as luck struck him in four games, starting with a draw with Fujairah, then losing from Al-Jazira in the league, and defeat in the first two matches of the AFC Champions League against Pakhtakor Al-Uzbekistan and Al-Hilal Saudi.
The first half did not witness many opportunities on both sides after the ball was trapped in the middle of the field for a long time, due to the way the two parties fought the match, relying on more counter-attacks, and poor pitch played a big role in the players ’inability to control The ball, and also caused the wrong passes.
While the first half was on the way to the end, the match referee Sultan Muhammed awarded a penalty to Bani Yas after striker Sultan Al Shamsi’s shot hit the hand of Al-Ahly defender Mohamed Marzouk inside the penalty area, but the referee refused to count it at first before returning to the video technique “The Mouse”, which proved The presence of the penalty kick, from which the Kazakh Richard Oliveira scored the only goal in the 48th minute.
The second half started with an offensive substitution by the coach of Al-Ahly youth team, Argentine Rodolfo Aroparina, by entering Ismail Al Hammadi in the place of Majed Hassan. The team, on the other hand, relied on the "celestial" for a tight defense.
The match in its last minutes was clearly strained by the players of Al-Ahly youth team who were overwhelmed by their performance, which resulted in wasting a set of opportunities that they had obtained at a time when the Bani Yas team continued its defense-based strategy, and its German coach, Nfred Schaefer, strengthened two defensive shifts with the entry of Mohamed Rashid and Shaheen Al-Darmaki, in order for Al-Samawi to maintain his only goal.