Baniyas team snatched a valuable point from its host Sharjah, after a negative tie between them today at the Sharjah Club Stadium in the eighth round of the Arab Gulf League. Sharjah raised its score to 20 points, and Baniyas to 8 points. Baniyas presented this valuable gift to Al-Ahly youth, who is ranked second after Sharjah, the leaders, by a difference of four points, and in the event that it wins over Al-Wahda today, the difference may be reduced to one point only.
The match saw the expulsion of the most prominent players in Sharjah, Brazilian Igor Cornado, after receiving the second yellow card «87» to miss the big game of Sharjah in the ninth round against Al-Nasr.