Al-Ain bleeds two points in front of Baniyas

• Al Ain came out of its stadium with a point in front of Bani Yas.

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Al Ain, 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 yesterday evening at Hazaa Bin Zayed Stadium, within the 11th round of the competition. To put the 18th point in his balance in the seventh place, while on the other hand, “Al-Samawi” added 12 points to his balance 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 three minutes late, when Argentine Nicholas Jimenez managed to score a goal. The equalizer in the 31st minute 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 equalizer, until they scored the second goal, which came in the 36th minute, when the Al Ain midfielder, Moroccan Mahdi Al-Mubarak, scored by mistake against his team, which is the goal that ended the first half, despite repeated attempts by the owners. Earth to go to a tie break between half-time.

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, which 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, Raphael Elias, suffered a severe head injury, as a result of which he was treated outside the field, and the substitution cast a shadow on the team’s performance, especially since the presence of Raphael in the squad was a burden on the defense of the Al-Ainawi defense line, which was liberated. Later, he played purely offensive roles.

The last minutes of the match continued as a debate between the two teams, as the Bani Yas goalkeeper, Fahd Al-Dhanhani, shone, and stood as an impenetrable dam in front of the successive attacks of the landowners, to give his team a valuable point.

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