Shabab Al-Ahly achieve a historic eight-goal victory over Al-Gharafa (photos)

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Shabab Al-Ahly achieved a historic victory over Qatar’s Al-Gharafa by eight goals to two at Prince Abdullah Al-Faisal Stadium in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, in the fourth round of the third group matches of the AFC Champions League, raising the “Dubai Knights” score to 6 points in second place behind the leader Foolad. Iran with 8 points, while Al-Gharafa slipped to third place with 5 points.

Al-Ahly youth dominated the midfield in the first ten minutes, but the first dangerous opportunity in the match was through Al-Gharafa player Andrey, who hit a powerful ball, which was brilliantly tackled by Majed Nasser and removed the ball to a corner kick (9).

Excitement rose after Omar Abdul Rahman moved and led a beautiful attack by exchanging the ball with Argentine Federico Cartapia and Norwegian Thomas Olsen, before Amouri hit the ball and was tackled by goalkeeper Youssef Hassan and Olsen followed it with his head in the goal (14), while Al-Gharafa responded quickly and Ahmed Aladdin scored The equalizer goal after he dribbled with Mohamed Jaber and hit the ball into the goal (16).

 Amouri continued his brilliance by creating a dangerous opportunity for the Norwegian Olsen, who received the ball inside the penalty area and shot it towards the goal, but goalkeeper Youssef Hassan saved the ball (27).

In the 40th minute, Thomas Olsen scored the second goal after Kartapia played a cross and the Norwegian striker headed it into the goal, before Hareb Suhail added the third goal with a wonderful shot (42).

In the second half, Al-Ahly youth maintained their advantage, and the Uzbek Aziz Ganyev scored the fourth goal from a direct free kick that he shot in a wonderful way and touched the defender of Al-Gharafa and entered the goal (50), followed by the Argentine Kartapia by scoring the fifth goal after receiving a cross from Amouri and Kartabia shot in the goal (51).

In the 57th minute, Al-Gharafa got a penalty kick after the ball touched the hand of defender Mohamed Jaber, and Majed Nasser starred in stopping the ball from Algerian Sofiane Hani, but the referee decided to repeat the kick again and Sofian Hani scored in the goal (59), scoring the second goal for Al-Gharafa.

Coach Mahdi Ali made two substitutions in the 60th minute, with Mohamed Gomaa Pele and Yahya Al Ghassani replacing Thomas Olsen and Federico Cartabia. Pele demonstrated his readiness and scored the sixth goal after a superb pass from Amouri in the 66th minute.

In the 78th minute, substitute Abdulaziz Sanqour added the seventh goal with a missile shot from outside the penalty area, before Aziz Ganyev scored the eighth goal from a direct free kick in the 83rd minute, ending the match with a historic victory for Al-Ahly youth.

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