Pakhtakor vs Al-Nassr 2-6

Al-Nassr won 6-2 at Pakhtakor Markaziy Stadium after turning a tight opening into a one-sided scoreline by half-time, then adding three more after the break. Joao Felix scored twice and set up another, while Abdulrahman Ghareeb and Dostonbek Khamdamov both came off the bench to add to the damage.

Al-Nassr led on 15 minutes when Abdullah Al-Hamdan finished from Joao Felix's pass to make it 1-0, and Felix doubled the advantage two minutes later. His second of the match arrived on 32 minutes, assisted by Sadio Mané, before Flamarion Jovino Filho pulled one back for Pakhtakor on 36 minutes from Sherzod Nasrullaev's assist. Pakhtakor had briefly thought they had reduced the deficit earlier, but Akmal Mozgovoy's effort was ruled out by VAR on 26 minutes. It was 3-1 at the break.

Abdulelah Al-Amri made it 4-1 on 53 minutes from Joao Felix's assist, and Abdulrahman Ghareeb, who had come on in the 45th minute, scored on 62 minutes with Sadio Mané again providing the pass. Pakhtakor made two changes on 60 minutes and two more on 71, and one of those substitutes, Dostonbek Khamdamov, scored on 75 minutes to make it 5-2 after coming on in the 60th minute. Al-Nassr had already made two changes on 68 minutes before Angelo Borges finished from Abdullah Al-Hamdan's assist on 79 minutes to seal the 6-2 win.

The numbers showed how little there was between the sides in possession and volume, even if not in finishing. Pakhtakor had 51% of the ball and 434 passes to Al-Nassr's 444, and also had more shots, 16 to 14, more corners, 7 to 5, and more offsides, 3 to 2. Al-Nassr, though, put 8 of their 14 shots on target to Pakhtakor's 5 and finished with a higher xG, 2.28 to 1.64, while the saves count was 2 for Pakhtakor and 3 for Al-Nassr.

Pakhtakor picked up two yellow cards, with Mukhammad-Bobur Karimov booked on 32 minutes and Sherzod Nasrullaev on 57 minutes. Al-Nassr were not booked, and there were no red cards.