QNB Stars League: Al Kharitiyat Steal a Win From Al Arabi

Doha, April 08 (QNA) - Al Kharaitiyat beat Al Arabi with a score of 2-1 this evening at Hamad bin Khalifa Stadium in Al Ahli Club in the21st round matches of the QNB Stars League . With this victory, Al Kharitiyat went up to 12 points in the 12th place, and officially fell to second division, four points away from Al Khor 11th-place with 16 points. On the other hand, Al Arabi stopped at 26 points. Al-Arabi scored the first goal through Abdulaziz Al-Ansari in the 14th minute, and just Al Kharitiyat scored through Oumar Sako in the 24th minute, while Muhammad Othman added the second goal in the 48th minute. The first half came as even at the level of goal scoring, as Al-Arabi managed to score the first goal in the 14th minute by Abdulaziz Al-Ansari after a corner ball , which Al-Ansari met with a strong header to the right of goalkeeper Shihab Mamdouh Al-Laithi. As for Al Kharitiyat, having continued the search for a tie until the 24th minute, in a similar way to Al Ansari's goal, where the cross ball reached Oumar Sako, who rose high and put it in the net. Attempts by the two teams to score continued until the referee announced the end of the first half by tying them with a goal for each team. With the beginning of the second half, Al-Kharaitiyat managed in the 48th minute to score the second goal with a strong shot by its player, Mohamed Othman, and he continued his attempts to waste Nasser Al-Nasr trying to add the third goal after he was alone in the goal and his shot that bounced off the crossbar. The remaining minutes of the match witnessed great pressure on the part of Al Arabi to equalize the result, but they failed in their endeavor due to the good defensive organization of the Al Kharaitiyat players, and at the same time the team continued to rely on rebound balls to build attacks until the referee announced the end of the match with the victory of Al Kharaitiyat (1-2). The matches of this round, which began yesterday, witnessed Al-Sadd victory over Al-Rayyan with a score of (2-1), and Qatar drew with Al-Ahly (1-1), and the same result was Al-Khor with Al-Duhail. It is reported that Al-Sadd leads the league with 57 points and had won the title early since the 18th round, Al-Duhail comes in second place (44), Al-Rayyan is in third place (34) and Al-Ahly is fourth (33).(QNA)