Yesterday, the Al-Jazira team rose temporarily to the Arab Gulf League awaiting today's matches, while at the same time cutting the Al-Dhafra team’s series without defeat, after winning it in the Hamdan Bin Zayed Stadium with a score of 1-0 at the beginning of the second leg of the second stage.

Al-Jazira now has 27 points, after advancing three points to Sharjah and Al-Ain, each with 24 points. In contrast, Al-Dhafra remained with its 23 points.

The match was marked by tactical discipline, and in most of its course, it was free from individual mistakes, as was remarkable high alert for Al-Jazira goalkeeper Ali Khasif, who saved his goal from five opportunities to achieve victory.

On the other hand, the successive Al Dhafra series stopped without defeat 82 days ago, as its last loss was on the seventh of last November against Shabab Al-Ahly, after which it defeated Khor Fakkan, Al Ain, Sharjah, Hatta, Fujairah and drew with Kalba.

Al-Jazeera entered the match strongly, with high pressure, and succeeded in opening the registration by Ali Mabkhout in the minute (7), taking advantage of a corner played by Khalfan Mubarak, and the Moroccan defender Al-Dhafra Essam Al-Adawah mistook it properly, to reach Mabkhout, who was not monitored, so He finds it difficult to put in the goal.

On the other hand, Al Dhafra lost the amendment after an attack led by Imran Amer, and played a cross in the penalty box, managed to drive the Serbian Milos Kusanovi من out from the Brazilian Pedro (18), and in the same way Al Dhafra player Suhail Al Mansouri led a similar attack, which was deported by Abdullah Ramadan (22).

Ali Khasif was able to clear a goal ball, after a header shot by Brazilian Joao while he was steps away from the goal in the most dangerous attack of victory, and Khasif returned and tackled another ball that the player himself had shot by a crawling ground (31).

Al Dhafra goalkeeper Khaled Al Sanani succeeded in tackling valiantly for a ball that was shot by Zayed Al Ameri from a single goal in the goal, to hold the ball in two stages and deprive the island of its second goal (42).

Al Dhafra relied in the second half on the counterattacks, and one of them, Imran Al Jassassi, hit a powerful ball that Ali Khasif bravely tackled. While Ali Ali Mabkhout has two chances, investigated in the two minutes (56 and 60), after two frank singles.

The match referee, Muhammad Obaid Khadim, returned to video technology, to cancel a penalty he had calculated for Al-Jazeera, after he stumbled on Ali Mabkhout inside the penalty area (64), and three minutes later the referee returned again to the technology to cancel a goal scored by Ali Mabkhout. Khasif entered the most dangerous ball, Pedro (86), and a more difficult ball in the minute (90 2), ending the match with Al-Jazira winning with a clean goal.

27

Point for the island in second place in the league, three points ahead of Sharjah and Al Ain (each of them has 24 points).

"The Mouse" intervened twice to cancel a penalty, and a goal for Ali Mabkhout, the only goal in the match.

Al-Jazira goalkeeper Ali Khasif was the star of the match, after he faced five opportunities to achieve victory.