Ajman surprises Al Jazeera with the goal of "Prestige"

Ajman players celebrate the goal scored by Prestige Mbongo.

Photography: Eric Arrasas

The Congolese wing, Prestige Mbongo, led his Ajman team to a surprise victory over its host Al Jazira, in the confrontation that brought the two teams together, yesterday evening, at Mohammed bin Zayed Stadium in the capital, Abu Dhabi, in the seventh round of the ADNOC Professional Football League, to put the “orange” point 11 in the His score, while the "Abu Dhabi Pride" points froze at 11.

The match was on its way to a goalless draw between the two teams, when Prestige received a ball inside the penalty area, and dodged defender Salem Rashid, before he shot it to the right of goalkeeper Abdul Rahman Al-Amri, to put an end to the missed opportunities, and scored the game's only goal in the 77th minute, and gave his team an important victory that he regained The road to victories again, after a negative draw in the last round against Khor Fakkan.

Chances continued to fly between the feet of the players of the two teams, and the post deprived the Ajman team of scoring, and the crossbar took over the shot of Al-Jazira player Ali Mabkhout, while the two goalkeepers starred in responding to the torrent of attacks in a meeting that did not witness much of the ball stopping, as the two teams exchanged attacks throughout the two halves.

Al Jazira was the dominant team in most of the match, and imposed its control over the course of the confrontation, and the match statistics showed that the rate of possession was in its favour, by 65.1%, but he did not take advantage of the opportunities he obtained to reach goalkeeper Ali Al Hosani.

Dutch coach Marcel Kayers' attempts to remedy things, especially in light of the missed opportunities, failed, and he made four purely offensive substitutions during the second half, but this did not help him in scoring the equalizing goal, to enter the team into a "vortex of doubt", as his balance became devoid of victories in The last four matches (1-1 with Baniyas, 3-3 against Sharjah, 1-2 against Shabab Al-Ahly, and 0-1 against Ajman).

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