Al-Jazira team bid farewell to the Mohammed VI Cup of Arab Champions Football Clubs, after failing to achieve «rimontada», and lost 2-0 in the face of the Egyptian Ismaili team, in the second leg of the final price of the competition, which was held, yesterday evening, at the Mohammed bin Zayed Stadium In the capital Abu Dhabi, «Pride of Abu Dhabi» will be the last UAE clubs to deposit Arab Championship after preceded by Al Wasl.
Al-Jazira, who lost 2-0 in Ismailia, needed a 3-0 win in the return leg to catch up with the quarter-finals, but their players failed to take advantage of the chances they had received in half a run. The meeting, while conceding two goals late in the meeting, specifically in the 87th minute mediated by Iraqi Humam Tariq, and in the 90 + 4 through Hazem Morsi.
It was clear that «Abu Dhabi's pride» was affected by the absence of international players, as the absence of the meeting Salem Rashid, Ali Khasif, Khalifa Al Hammadi, Abdullah Ramadan, Mohammed Al Attas, Ali Mabkhout and Khalfan Mubarak, for their presence in the squad, while the team lost the services of Omar Abdulrahman and Sultan Ghaferi and Moroccan Murad Batna is out of injury, and Brazilian Kino did not complete the meeting.
Al-Jazira goalkeeper Adel Abu Bakr gave his team the "kiss of life" in the sixth minute, when he saved a penalty kick shot by Mahmoud Abdul Jalil, after he headed to the right to keep his team's hopes of qualifying. Moroccan referee Radouane Gayed canceled a goal scored by Al Jazira player, South African Cerrero, in the 28th minute for offside. But Ismaili surprised Al Jazeera with two late goals, scored by Iraqi Humam Tariq and Hazem Morsi.
Al Jazeera followed Al Wasl and left the competition from the last 16.