Al-Wehdat bid farewell to the “Asian Champions” and Al-Sadd defeated Al-Faisaly, the qualifier
Jordan's Al-Wahid tied 2-2 with Nasaf to finish out of the AFC Champions League and the Uzbek team qualified for the round of 16, while Al-Sadd won 1-0 against Al-Faisaly at the end of Group E matches.
Al-Faisaly topped the group with nine points from six matches, with a direct confrontational difference from Nasaf, compared to seven points for Al-Sadd and six for Al-Wehdat.
Al-Faisaly will meet with Iran's Foolad Khuzestan, while Nasaf will play with the Saudi youth in the round of sixteen of the tournament.
Marko Stanovic scored Nasaf's first goal three minutes after the start, but Muhammad Anas equalized for Al Wehdat in the 34th minute.
Hussein Nurchayev restored Nasaf's lead in the 59th minute, before substitute Muhannad Abu Taha equalized for the Jordanian team in the 82nd minute.
The Uzbek team waited only three minutes to open the scoring through Serbian Stanjevic, with a powerful shot from outside the penalty area that landed in the goal of Ahmed Abdel Sattar, Al Wehdat goalkeeper.
Al-Wehdat responded with a shot from Munther Abu Omara from inside the penalty area that bounced from the defense, to be followed by his colleague Ahmed Sarwa outside the goal after a quarter of an hour from the start.
Al-Wehdat managed to equalize after a pass from Khaled Essam, which was headed by Anas, against Abdel-Wahid Nematov, the Nasaf goalkeeper.
Ahmed Samir hit the side net of Namatov's goal in the 38th minute, and despite Al-Wehdat's attempts, Nasaf managed to regain its lead after a mistake by defender Tariq Khattab to clear the ball after a corner kick, and Nurchayev shot past Abdul Sattar.
Abdul Sattar saved his goal from a third goal when he twice blocked Aybek Bozorov's attempt in the 64th minute, before substitute Abu Taha scored the equalizer for Al Wehdat after a header pass from Anas.
Al Sadd dominated the start of the match and almost opened the goals through a shot from Rodrigo Tabata that crossed the goal in the 19th minute, before Pedro Miguel missed another opportunity a minute later, while Boualem Khoukhi failed to score after a cross pass from a corner kick reached Baghdad Bounedjah, who passed it to Khokhi But he hit the top of the goal in the 22nd minute.
There was a dangerous opportunity for Mohammed Al-Saiari, the Al-Faisaly striker, who fired a powerful shot that passed near the goal in the 27th minute.
Miguel hit the net when he followed Tabata's shot that bounced off Al Faisaly goalkeeper Ahmed Al Kassar.
Al Sadd almost doubled the score through a shot from Mohamed Waad, which Al Kassar kept out of his line in the 62nd minute.
Seven minutes later, the crossbar responded with a powerful and surprising shot by Al-Saiari, who sent a header that was brilliantly blocked by Saad Al-Sheeb, Al-Sadd goalkeeper, in the 81st minute.
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