Al Wahda defeats Al Dhafra with a crazy scenario and reduces the difference with Al Ain
Al Wahda reduced the difference with Al Ain to 4 points.
Photography: Eric Arrasas
Al Wahda came out with a difficult victory against its rival Al Dhafra 3/2 in the match that brought them together at Al Nahyan Stadium yesterday evening, Friday, in the opening of the 21st stage of the ADNOC Professional League.
Al Annabi reduced the difference between him and Al Ain, the leader, to 4 points, after raising his score to 45 points.
Al Dhafra was the first to score through Gillermy, "19", after which Al Wahda advanced with two goals through Khalil Ibrahim and Adrian Silva, "26 and 37", but the alternative, Muhammad Al-Junaibi, managed to tie Al Dhafra "58", and Robin Phelps, managed to Score the winning goal "90 + 4".
Al Wahda presented two different faces in front of Al Dhafra, as it did not need any introductions to enter the atmosphere of the match, so he pressed from the minute in order to score an early goal, and he had an ideal opportunity to score from a fixed kick carried out by Ismail Matar from the edge of the box, which was rejected by the crossbar on behalf of goalkeeper Abdullah Sultan. Then the defense kept her away for a corner kick.
But Al Dhafra surprised the owners of the land with an organized counterattack by Walid Amber, who started from the right and distributed a ground ball that hit the defense and arrived on a plate of gold to Gillermy, who was not observed, to easily turn it into the net.
Al Wahda tried to return quickly to the match and did not take long to score, after a magical pass from Matar on the head of Khalil Ibrahim, who moved perfectly behind the Al Dhafra defense and played it to the left of the goalkeeper.
Their Excellencies continued their endeavors to advance, and indeed they succeeded through an organized attack, from which Martinez distributed a cross to Silva's head, to rise to it before Issam El-Adawy and deposit it to the left of the goalkeeper.
Al-Wehda continued its offensive efforts to widen the difference, and Joao Pedro missed the opportunity to score from a ball he shot from inside the box, and the defense spoiled it for a corner kick, so that the first half ended with that result.
Al-Wahda appeared poorly in the second half, despite the absolute advantage it had in the first session, so its lines seemed "disjointed", and there was no positive concentration of its players, especially the four-line defense, which Al Dhafra took advantage of as required, as his brilliant player Gillermy succeeded, in Al-Annabi defense hit a longitudinal ball to Muhammad Al-Junaibi, after which he was singled out with the goal and deposited the ball to the right of "Al-Shamsi".
While everyone expected a strong reaction from Al Wahda, the preference remained in favor of Al Dhafra, who threatened Al Wahda’s goal on more than one occasion that was not used as required, and the most dangerous of these attempts were two minutes before the end, when Makheti Diop passed a perfect ball to Canedo, who On the goal gate, but he played it in the last along the post.
With the last minute, Robin Phelps managed to save Al-Wahda by scoring the winning goal with a ball he tried to distribute to Joao Pedro's head, to fall behind Abdullah Sultan Al-Advanced, scoring the most expensive goals for Annabi this season.
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