Al-Ain team overcame the opportunity to move away in fourth place in the table of the Arab Gulf Cup qualification, qualifying for the AFC Champions League, after a draw, yesterday, at home to the home club Kalba 2-2 in the round 23 of the competition, to score 40 points by three points Only from the fifth-placed unit, which is now facing a strong test in the face of the island, while the Tigers put point 24 on the 11th.

The Al Ain team was keen to take advantage of the valuable gift given to them by the youth of Al Ahly by converting the fourth place in the league to a qualifying position for the next AFC Champions League next season after winning the President's Cup at the expense of Al Dhafra. Maintaining fourth place has become difficult.

Al-Kalabah started the scoring in the second minute by French player Giovanni Gay Seo, but Al Ain scored the equalizer in the sixth minute through Bandar Al Ahbabi. The hosts added the second goal in the 16th minute by Mohamed Khalfan. However, the Frenchman Giovanni returned and scored the second goal for him and his team. In the 1 + 45 minute.

Al Ain coach, Juan Carlos Garrido, continued his strategy of relying on young players at the expense of the players. The match started with a team of only five players with experience. Also in the second half did not see the payment of a heavyweight player, since he only called young players only to sit on the bench.

The draw comes four days before the crucial match that awaits Al Ain in the AFC Champions League when they host Al Hilal Saudi Arabia next Monday in the fifth round of the competition. Al-Zaeem's hopes of continuing the Asian competition are tied to winning only the remaining two meetings with The loss of the Qatari Dahil and Iranian independence.

Al Ain won the last five games in the league, losing to Al-Jazira 1-5, Ajman 4-0, Sharjah 2-2, and Bani Yas 2-0, 2.2.

In the first minute, the Japanese striker Tsukasa Shotani, who was guarded by the goalkeeper of the Kalba Association Jamal Al-Sawah, struggled with the difficulty. The first Tigers' A goal in the second minute, when Hungarian striker Balzas Gujac sent the ball behind the attackers, the Frenchman Giovanni Gay Seo turned his head into the goal.

Al-Ain goalkeeper Gamal Al-Sarah was sent back to Al-Ain's eye by Jamal Maarouf, but Japan's Tsukasa Shotani scored an easy shot from the goalkeeper before being watched by Bandar Al Ahbabi. In the net again to bring his team back to the score.

Al Ain continued their advantage and managed to score the second goal, which gave them the lead in the 16th minute after an organized attack that reached the ball to the wingman Bandar Al Ahbabi who sent a cross ball inside the penalty area and found the striker Mohammed Khalfan, who turned his head in the far corner amid the follow-up of goalkeeper Jamal And some of the defenders of the Union of Kalba.

The Kalbaa team wasted a few easy chances to tie, before investing one opportunity in the 1 + 45th minute when defender Daoud Ali passed the ball behind the defenders followed by the French striker Giovanni Jay Seo headed with goalkeeper Mohammed Posanda in the same way that scored his first goal, The two teams break between the two half with a positive draw 1-1.

The start of the second half was also exciting, given the mutual attacks by the two teams, before the Al Ain coach exchanged two attacks at once, Khalid Balushi and Falah Walid, instead of Said Al-Menhali and Ali Al-Hayazani, but the situation did not change, Striker Jamal Maarouf, who suffered a muscle injury while trying to catch up with one of the balls, continued the match between the two teams until the referee issued the final whistle.

The audience

811

Relay

Eye:

Khaled Al Balushi Login

And the farmer Walid and Saad Khamis

Place of Said Al-Manhali, Ali Al-Hayazani and Jamal Maarouf.

Kalbaa:

Enter Hassan Khamis and Mana

Gunpowder Place Mike Ramos

And Hassan Khamis.

Cards

Eye:

Ali al-Hayazani and Bandar al-Ahbabi.

Kalbaa:

Jamal Al-Sarah and Omar Al-Khadim.

Man of the Match

Player of the League of Kalba

Giovanni Gay Seo.

Man of the Match

Al Ain goalkeeper

Mohammed Bousenda.