A disappointing draw with Bani Yas puts it in seventh place

The Al Ain team, the holder of the Anouk Professional Football League title, wasted the opportunity to approach the first four positions, after falling into the trap of a positive tie 2-2 against its rival, Bani Yas, in the match that was held today, Tuesday, at Hazaa Bin Zayed Stadium, within the 11th round of the competition, to put that point 18 in his score in the seventh place, while on the other hand, “Al-Samawi” added 12 points to his score in the tenth place.

The hosts cut the match's goals in the 28th minute by Ukrainian international Andriy Yarmolenko, taking advantage of an elaborate pass inside the penalty area. The latter did not hesitate to put it in the net, but the response from the guests was only 3 minutes late when Argentine Nicholas Jimenez managed to equalize in the minute. 31 With a powerful shot from outside the penalty area, goalkeeper Khaled Issa was unable to block it.

Bani Yas did not give the landowners the opportunity to wake up from the equalizing goal until they scored the second goal, which came in the 36th minute, when the Al Ain midfielder, Moroccan Mahdi Al-Mubarak, scored by mistake in his own goal, which is the goal that ended the first half despite repeated attempts by the landowners to go to a break between The two halves are tied.

Since the beginning of the second half, the hosts threw their weight offensively, which achieved their goal by scoring the equalizer in the 54th minute by Togolese Laba Kodjo from a penalty kick that was awarded by the referee of the match after a violation committed with his colleague Bandar Al-Ahbabi.

The match witnessed, in the 58th minute, the Bani Yas striker, Rafael Elias, suffered a severe head injury, as a result of which he was removed from the field. .

The final minutes of the match continued as a debate between the two teams, while Bani Yas goalkeeper Fahd Al-Dhanhani shone and stood as a strong barrier against the successive attacks of the landowners, giving his team a valuable point.

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