Shabab Al Ahli extend lead with Dibba rout, Ajman beat Al Nasr
Shabab Al Ahli maintained their position at the top of the table ater securing a 5-1 comfortable win over Dibba at Rashid Stadium in matchweek 15 of the Pro League on Saturday.
The Dubai-based side needed 36 minutes to break the deadlock and open the scoring when Yuri Cesar’s first atempt was denied by Dibba’s goalkeeper Humaid Abdulla as the ball fell to Omar Khribin who poked the rebound into the back of the net.
Just two minutes before the break, Shabab Al Ahli were awarded a penalty kick when Yuri Cesar was elbowed away by Dibba’s defender Marcelo Dos Santos inside the penalty box, prompting the referee to point to the spot. Federico Nicolas Cartabia stepped up and sent the goalkeeper the wrong way to make it 2-0.
The Syrian midfielder Khribin grabbed his brace and made it 3-0 in the 51st minute when met Yuri Cesar’s brilliant low cross inside the box with a clinical finish into the botom corner of the net.
The momentum was with Shabab Al Ahli, and it was no surprise when they extended their lead in the 62nd minute when Omar Khribin put Yahya Alghassani through on goal as the later curled a let-footed shot into the back of the net, to make it 4-0.
In the 71st minute, Dibba pulled one back when Tafadzwa Dhliwayo capitalized on a defender’s mistake and sent a nice pass to Edu who drilled the ball into the far botom corner of the net, to make it 1-4.
The Dubai-based side made it 5-1 when Harib
Abdalla Suhail picked up the ball on the right flank and skipped past two defenders; before sending a low cross into the six-yard box, where Cheickna Doumbia met with a clinical finish.
The victory means that Shabab Al Ahli are topping the table with 32 points, while Dibba remain botom with just four points.
A brace from M Ben Alarbi set Ajman on course for an easy 4-1 win over Al Nasr in at Rashid Bin Saeed Stadium on Saturday.
Ajman found the breakthrough and took the lead ater seven minutes when M. Ben Alarbi sent a perfect low cross into the six-yard box, where Prestige Mboungou met with a clinical finish.
Ali Madan cemented his side’s lead in the 25th minute when he ran onto a superb upfield pass from Waleed Azaro to break the offside trap and pick up the ball inside the box; before chipping the ball over the goalkeeper into the back of the net.
Four minutes before the break, Ben Alarbi turned from a provider to a scorer when he met Soud Saeed’s cross with a brilliant first-time volley into the back of the net to make it 3-0.
Antonio Jose De Carvalho reduced the deficit when his free kick took a wicked deflection off Bilal Yousif and completely wrong-footed goalkeeper Ali Al Hosani.
The Tunisian midfielder grabbed his brace from