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Al Sadd Aiming to Be FOOTBALL | Page 3 RUGBY | Page 6 Barca stay top All Blacks aft er Real and beat Pumas Atletico share to clinch sixth derby spoils Championship Monday, October 1, 2018 FORMULA 1 Moharram 21, 1440 AH Mercedes’ Hamilton GULF TIMES wins in Russia to go 50 points clear SPORT Page 7 FOOTBALL / AFC CHAMPIONS LEAGUE Al Sadd aiming to be the ‘Boss’ of Asia for third time ‘We should work towards scoring a big number of goals in the first leg (vs Persepolis), so that it can benefit us in Tehran’ By Sports Reporter ambitions of qualifying for the Doha last-four stage, something that Al Sadd coach Jesualdo Ferreira is wary of. t’s not without reason that “It is very important for us to Al Sadd are known as “Al Za- have a strong strike force, as we eem” in Qatar. It translates have a crucial game coming up as “The Boss”, a deserving in the AFC Champions League. monikerI considering their ex- We should work towards scoring ploits in football, both nationally a big number of goals in the fi rst and internationally. Thirteen- leg, so that it can be of benefi t in time league champions, 16-time the second leg in Tehran,” Fer- Amir Cup winners and twice the reira said at a press conference kings of Asia, Qatar’s very iden- last week. tity as far as club football is con- The scoring abilities of Al cerned was driven by Al Sadd for Sadd are not in doubt. In fact, in a long time before the emergence six QNB Stars League matches of Al Duhail over the past fi ve they have played so far, they have years briefl y stole their thunder. scored a whopping 31 goals while It’s only fi tting, therefore, that conceding just three. However, Al Sadd stand on the cusp of glo- Persepolis are well-known for ry on the Asian stage for the third their defence and the hosts could time having entered the semi-fi - face a tough time cracking their nals of the lucrative AFC Cham- defence. pions League. It’s a tournament In 2011, Al Sadd had to go they won in 1988 when it was through the qualifying play-off s known as the Asian Club Cham- to make it to the group stage of pionship, and later in 2011 when the tournament. The fact they they beat top South Korean side went all the way under Uruguay- Jeonbuk Hyundai in the fi nals. an coach Jorge Fossati and won There is a great deal of pedi- the title was indeed the stuff of gree here and plenty of history, legend. too, to motivate the team as they Their campaign then was also prepare for a battle of attrition in aided by Iran’s Sepahan’s blun- the fi rst leg of their semi-fi nals der of fi elding Rahman Ahmadi, against Iran’s Persepolis tomor- an ineligible player, in the fi rst row at the Sheikh Jassim bin Ha- leg of the quarter-fi nal. Sepahan mad Stadium. won the match 1-0, but Ahmadi Persepolis, who are playing shouldn’t have played it as he had their second straight semi-fi nals, received two yellow cards with are the side who ended Al Du- his former club. Upon Al Sadd’s Al Sadd players and off icials gather for a photograph during a training session ahead of the AFC Champions League match against Iran’s Persepolis yesterday. The club presented a hail’s campaign at the quarter-fi - protest, the AFC overturned the Best Player of the Month memento to its Spanish player Gabi. PICTURE: Noushad Thekkayil nal stage, rallying from a fi rst leg result and awarded the Qatari loss in Doha to clinch the issue side the match with a 3-0 ver- also trained with the team al- Deniye Gedara. Sanjeeva Wella- nese side, Tianjin Quanjian, 5-0 with a 3-2 aggregate after win- dict. That helped them qualify though he is still doubtful. pada will be the fourth offi cial, on aggregate in the quarter-fi nals. ning the second leg at the Azadi for the semi-fi nals where they Al Sadd, however, have captain and Gamini Nivon and Rowan Suwon won the now defunct Stadium in Tehran. beat Suwon Samsung Bluewings Xavi at the helm and with Akram Arumughan additional referees. Asian Club Championship twice The top Iranian side would before accounting for another Afi f, Gabi and the prolifi c Bagh- Gautam Khar will be the match in the early 2000s but have only be much more careful this time Korean team, Jeonbuk Hyundai, dad Bounedjah in their line-up, commissioner and Chyung Bim once before, in 2011, reached while facing another Qatar team for the title. the task at hand is certainly not Yao referees’ observer. the semi-fi nals, before being in Doha. After all, you can’t push Meanwhile, Al Sadd stepped beyond them. The other semi-fi nals pit Ja- knocked out by eventual winners your luck too much. They would up their preparations for the Bounedjah is the top scorer pan’s Kashima Antlers against Al Sadd. have learned their lessons from tomorrow’s clash under coach in the tournament so far with 12 Samsung Suwon Bluewings in But having eliminated do- their match against Al Duhail in Ferreira’s supervision. All play- goals and the Algerian would be Kashima. mestic rivals Ulsan Hyundai in late August when an early strike ers attended the training session looking to once again showcase The teams twice met in the the last 16 and then edged past from Almoez Ali left them with yesterday. Qatar international his tremendous goal-poaching group stage, sharing a win apiece, two-time winners Jeonbuk on much catching up to do. striker Hassan al-Haydous, who skills in front of his fans in Doha. before Kashima ousted Shanghai penalties in the previous round In essence, Al Duhail’s fail- missed Al Sadd’s league match- Dilan Perera of Sri Lanka will SIPG in the last 16 in what was this season, they have a chance to ure to score more goals in their es against Al Rayyan and Qatar offi ciate the match, assisted by their fi rst ever knockout stage win advance to the fi nal of the show- Persepolis players arrive in Doha for their AFC Champions League home match put paid to their Sports Club with an ankle injury, Priyanga Palliya Guruge and and then eased past another Chi- piece event for the fi rst time. match against Al Sadd. (Twitter/AlSadd) FOOTBALL Infantino has ‘support of Africa’ in FIFA re-election bid AFP Infantino, a former deputy head egates, calling for “a real impact.” Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt of UEFA, was fi rst elected in 2016 According to reports, Infantino to succeed Sepp Blatter, when the was investigated by the FIFA ethics scandal that engulfed the govern- committee for interfering in the CAF frican nations would ing body of world football was at election when he removed leading support Gianni Infantino its height. members of the committee. He later for re-election as FIFA The next presidential election will sacked the chairman and members president, the head of be held in Paris in June 2019 and In- of the ethics committee, eff ectively theA continental football federation fantino has said he will stand. ending the probe. Ahmad Ahmad said yesterday. Infantino expressed his grati- Ahmad said that despite the fail- “I feel it is my duty... to an- tude for the African backing. ure of African nations during the nounce this support from Africa,” “It means a lot to me,” said the World Cup in Russia, where none Ahmad said at a special meeting of Swiss. “Since long before my elec- of the fi ve African nations made it the Confederation of African Foot- tion, I had said, and since I have to the last 16, the continent needed ball Executive Committee, which done everything, to make sure that “regular and increased” participa- Infantino attended, in Sharm el- the future really is Africa.” tion. Sheikh, Egypt. Infantino is believed to have “Deep analysis” makes it possi- supported Ahmad when he ousted ble to “see more clearly the various FIFA president Gianni Infantino the long-time CAF president Issa problems that undermine African (centre), secretary-general Fatma Hayatou in March 2017. football,” he said. Samoura (left) and Confederation Infantino described the election Ahmad said that participa- of African Football (CAF) President as a “vote of change”. tion (in the World Cup) “stabilises Ahmad Ahmad attend the 12th CAF “It’s about taking football for- some of the national teams of our Extraordinary General Assembly ward, it’s about making progress continent... and gives them expe- meeting yesterday. (AFP) together,” Infantino told CAF del- rience.” Gulf Times 2 Monday, October 1, 2018 FOOTBALL PREMIER LEAGUE Are Man Utd and Mourinho nearing end of the road? Languishing nine points behind leaders City, United face a battle even to qualify for the lucrative Champions League AFP squad, because the basics are ers including Pogba, Nemanja London not being done. There has to be Matic, Romelu Lukaku and Alexis something said.” Sanchez — who was left out of United’s build-up to the match the squad against West Ham. anchester United are against West Ham was overshad- United have backed Mourinho a club in crisis and owed by the growing rift between heavily in the transfer market but Jose Mourinho is Mourinho and Paul Pogba, who their policy has been scattergun, seemingly powerless was stripped of the vice-cap- with January signing Sanchez Mto prevent a slide into mid-table taincy before their League Cup failing to recreate his Arsenal mediocrity for the 20-time Eng- exit against Championship side form at Old Traff ord.
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