Mohammed Syed Ahmed (Abu Dhabi)
Al Ain won a valuable victory over Al Dhafra with a clean goal, at Hamdan Bin Zayed Stadium, in the 22nd round of the ADNOC Professional League, to move away from the top of the standings by 55 points, and widen the difference with its closest competitors to 10 points, and it is only 3 points away from resolving the championship and embracing the shield Al Dhafra remained in 12th place with 18 points.
Caio Canedo’s header won the “leader” following a free kick by Guanca in the 30th minute of the match, which Al Dhafra completed with 10 players from the 48th minute following Khalaf Al Hosani was sent off for a second warning following a mistake with Eric.
The game’s only goal came following suffering in reaching Abdullah Sultan’s goal, despite the presence of 3 attempts to pay Yahya Nader and Ahmed Berman, then a long ball that put Khaled Al Balushi in the face of the goalkeeper, but he was unsuccessful in investing it, so Caio finally came and decoded the “knight” goal with a deceptive header. He scored his third goal this season. Despite the shortage, Al Dhafra presented a great match in the second half, in which the chances were few in front of the two goals, and caution and defensive organization attended, and despite that, dangerous opportunities attended, especially Guilherm’s shot, which Khaled Issa starred in removing it in the last seconds, to end the match with Al Ain victory, which became far away Just a step away from celebrating the title.
The victory of the “leader” over the “knight” is a repeated scenario for the first leg, which ended with the same result, which is the 14th victory in 24 matches that brought the two teams together, compared to 4 victories for Al Dhafra.
