Al-Arabi temporarily topped the Qatar Football League (QNB Stars League), after achieving an outright victory over Al-Sailiya 4-1, in the meeting that brought them together today, at Hamad Grand Stadium, in the seventeenth round.
Al-Arabi scored its twelfth victory in the tournament, raising its score to 37 points, one point ahead of former leaders Al-Duhail, who will face Qatar Club tomorrow / Saturday / in the same round.
9 points. Al-Arabi owed the victory to its Syrian stars Omar Al-Soma and Tunisian Youssef Al-Masakni, who shared the four goals, as Al-Soma twice responded to Al-Sailiya’s lead with the Iranian goal, Mehrdad Mohammadi, in the eighth minute, as he scored the equalizing goal in the 32nd minute, before giving his team precedence with the second goal in the minute ( 45 + 1), while Msakni shone in the second half, scoring the third goal from the same Somah pass in the 64th minute, before completing the quartet in the 85th minute.
Al-Sailiya, who was in dire need of points, started the match perfectly, scoring the first goal when Ahmed Al-Sebaei set off and penetrated into the area and sent a creeping ball that was received by Mehrdad Mohammadi as it should be and placed it in the net of Jassem Al-Hail, Al-Arabi goalkeeper, less than eight minutes after the start of the confrontation. Al-Arabi showed a strong reaction after the delay, imposing preference through control, possession and successive access to the Al-Sailiya goal, so that Tunisian Youssef Msakni missed the opportunity to adjust when the ball reached him inside the area. 26 . Youssef Al-Masakni shot again from a distance, so that the ball bounced off goalkeeper Claude Amin, and swayed in front of Omar Al-Somah, who was not offside, so he returned it to the net in the 32nd minute, and in stoppage time in the first half, Ibrahim Nasser passed both balls into the area and put Al-Somah in the face of the goalkeeper to put the ball in the goal. , giving his team the lead in the minute (45 + 1), ending the first half with Al-Arabi advancing with two goals to one.
Al-Arabi continued his advantage in the second half through offensive efficiency through coordinated counterattacks, in light of Al-Sailah rushing towards the attack in search of an amendment, and from one of the counter-attacks Ibrahim Nasser passed both balls towards Omar Al-Soma, who in turn prepared it for Youssef Al-Masakni, who did not find much trouble in depositing it.
The net in the 64th minute, before the Tunisian star returned to finish the quartet after a remarkable individual effort in the 85th minute, to end the match with an outright victory for Al-Arabi, who ignited the competition for the league title.
