Al Ain Club secures the final result of today’s thrilling match vs Baniyas Club with three goals and restores the top position of ADNOC Pro League
Al Ain Club was successful in claiming an important victory outside its pitch on the expense of its host Baniyas Club with the score of 3-2. This victory came in the match that brought the two teams together on the pitch of Baniyas Stadium, during the conclusion of the 17th round matches of ADNOC Pro League football tournament, in a match that was full of enthusiasm and secured by The Boss in the final moments, adding three precious points to its aggregate.
Al Ain Club managed to increase its aggregate up to 41 points and assumed the top position on the tournament’s standings table, taking advantage of the direct matches margin over Shabab Al Ahli Club, who has the same aggregate. While the aggregate of Baniyas Club stopped on 11 points.
Match’s first half witnessed a relative advantage for Al Ain Club on the level of ball possession, where the team managed to impose its dominance on the ball with a ratio that reached 64%, they also tried to dismantle the blockade on the organized defensive line for the home team by shooting from outside the penalty zone, the continuous movements in the third part on the forward line of play, yet all those scoring attempts were not transformed into decisive scoring opportunities, so match’s first half was over with a scoreless negative draw.
With the beginning of match’s second half, Baniyas Club took the lead thanks to a goal scored by Youssoufou Niakaté, who is the team’s Malian forward player, on the minute of 47, yet, Al Ain Club showed a powerful reaction that reflected the team’s personality, as Kodjo Fo-Doh Laba, who is the team’s Togolese forward player managed to score the equalizer from a penalty kick on the minute of 54, so the top scorer for The Boss maintained his streak of record numbers that reached up to 160 scoring contributions at ADNOC Pro League (135 goals and 25 assists).
Al Ain Club continued to impose its pressure after scoring the equalizer, which had been transformed by Adrian Gheorghe Șut, who is the team’s Romanian defensive midfielder, into the second goal on the minute of 59 after a period of domination on the forward line of play, despite the brilliant performance of Baniyas Club’s goalkeeper, Khaled Al Dhanhani, who managed to save several dangerous scoring attempts, the most prominent of which is a header by Soufiane Rahimi, who is the Moroccan forward player for Al Ain first football team.
Baniyas Club returned to match’s atmospheres by scoring the equalizer by
Fawaz Awana Ahmed Hussain Al Messabi, who is the team’s defensive midfielder, on the minute of 67, igniting the match with an exchange of scoring attempts for both teams. Then, Al Ain Club managed to transform its advantage on the pitch and leveraged over the state of numerical disadvantage in the ranksfor the host team, as one of the host team’s players received a red card on the minute of 81, they also intensified their pressure on the forward line of play searching for the decisive goal.
On the minute of 87, Houssine Rahimi, who is the Moroccan forward player for Al Ain first football team, was successful in scoring the winning goal for Al Ain Club, emphasizing over the presence of The Boss during the final moments, he also increased his aggregate up to 4 goals in ADNOC Pro League football tournament this season, half of them in the net of Baniyas Club.
