The Qatar Club team bid farewell to the King Salman Cup for the Arab Champions Clubs Football Championship, drawing today against its guest, Tunisian Sfaxien, with a goal for each of them in the confrontation that took place at Suhaim bin Hamad Stadium for the second leg of the first preliminary round. Guinean Mohamed Kante opened the scoring for the Tunisian team in the 41st minute, while Argentine Javier Pastore equalized the score for Qatar Club in the 89th minute. With this result, Sfaxien reached the second preliminary round with a total of two matches, after a first-leg tie at home without goals, to qualify to meet Al Hilal of Sudan, and the winner of the two matches qualifies. To join the first group, which includes Tunisian Esperance, the Saudi Jeddah Federation and the Iraqi police. The start came offensively on the part of the hosts, so Sebastian Soria threatened the Tunisian goal with a powerful shot, which was returned by the left post of goalkeeper Ayman Dahman. Ashraf Al-Habbasi and Al-Ghani Muhammad Kanti. The Iraqi match referee, Ali Sabah, canceled the goal scored by Sebastian Syria in the 26th minute, due to the presence of a handball, and the same player returned to score again with a header, but the assistant referee’s flag prevented the Qatar Club team from opening the scoring due to offside in the 33rd minute. Kanti Sfaxien took advantage, taking advantage of a clear defensive lapse inside the area when he received a cross from his colleague Mohamed Al-Saleh Al-Mahdhabi, to follow it up between the defenders to the right of Qatar Club goalkeeper Satih Al-Abbasi. In the rest of the time, the attempts of Sebastian Soria’s colleagues did not bear fruit, as the team of Moroccan coach Youssef Al-Sefri went to the break late with a clean goal. In the second half, the Egyptian Hossam El-Badri, the coach of the Tunisian team, pushed the Guinean defender, Nabi Camara, in place of his colleague, striker Ashraf Al-Habbasi, in a clear indication of his desire to preserve the score and impose control on the keys to playing the Qatar Club offensive team, in addition to involving Mauritanian Ismail Diakite in the front lines in order to preserve the situation. offensive. On the other hand, Moroccan Youssef El Sefri, coach of Qatar Club, wanted to intensify his offensive endeavors and involved the former French and Argentine Paris Saint-Germain player, Javier Pastore, to increase the offensive effectiveness and put more pressure on the Tunisian goalkeeper Ayman Dahman. And the Argentine Pastore succeeded in adjusting the score in the 89th minute, taking advantage of a cross ball that reached him inside the penalty area, but the goal was not enough for his team, as attempts to score the winning goal and qualify failed, so the match ended in a 1-1 draw.
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