Al-Fateh vs Al Khaleej Saihat 2-3

Al Khaleej Saihat came from two goals down to win 3-2 at Al-Fateh, sealing it with Omar Mascarell’s stoppage-time strike after a late surge. Al-Fateh led twice in the first half, but the visitors turned it around after the break.

Lukáš Haraslín opened the scoring in the 33rd minute, turning in Mourad Batna’s assist for 1-0. Al-Fateh then lost Ali Alamine to a yellow card in the 38th minute and replaced him with Fahad Al Zubaidi at half-time, before reaching the interval ahead after Joshua King had not yet entered the fray. The score was 1-0 at half-time.

Wilfried Kanga made it 2-0 in the 60th minute from Hossam Essadak’s assist, but Al Khaleej Saihat’s changes shifted the game. The visitors made two substitutions on 62 minutes and two more on 76, and one of those newcomers, Musa Barrow, pulled it back in the 78th minute from Saleh Al Amri’s assist, with both players having come on in the 62nd minute. Joshua King, who came on in the 45th minute, then equalised in the 84th minute from Mateo Benegas’s pass, and Mascarell completed the comeback three minutes into stoppage time. Al-Fateh had 38% of the ball to Al Khaleej Saihat’s 62% and were outpassed 491 to 308, while the visitors also had more shots, 16 to 12, more corners, 10 to 7, and a higher xG of 0.75 to 0.51. Both sides finished with four shots on target, while Al-Fateh’s one save compares with Al Khaleej Saihat’s two.

Al-Fateh collected three yellow cards, for Ali Al-Hassan in the 37th minute, Ali Alamine in the 38th and Mihai Lixandru in the 89th. Al Khaleej Saihat had one booking, for Ali Saeed Ali Al Shaafi in the 58th minute. There were no red cards.