The first Al-Ittihad Football team repeated its victory over Al-Fateh in the first and second rounds for the second time in its history, after coming from a goal down to a huge victory “4-2” during the match that brought them together, on Saturday, at the latter’s stadium in Al-Ahsa, in the 24th round of the Saudi Roshen League competitions.
Al-Fateh took the lead with an early goal through Salem Al-Najdi (7), and Moroccan Abdel Razzaq Hamdallah returned the match to the starting point by scoring the equalizer from a penalty kick (38), before his Portuguese colleague Jota put the team in the lead by scoring the second goal in the fourth minute of counted time. Instead of lost.
Ahmed Al-Ghamdi, the Al-Ittihad player, scored his first goal in the “Tigers” shirt after scoring the third (65), and Al-Fateh quickly responded with the second goal through Ahmed Al-Shurafa (66), but Moroccan Abdel Razzaq Hamdallah returned again to score against Al-Fateh with the fourth goal (74).
The Moroccan Hamdallah raised his score to 17 goals in third place, 3 goals behind the Serbian Aleksandar Mitrovic, the Al Hilal striker, who ranked second (20 goals), and 6 goals ahead of the Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo, the Al-Nasr striker, who leads the overall scorers’ rankings with 23 goals.
Through this victory, the Al-Ittihad team renewed what it did against Al-Fateh last season when it beat them twice (3-1 and 5-1) for the first time during 20 matches in the Saudi Professional League.
The Al-Ittihad team played with ten players from the 77th minute after Maddallah Al-Olayan was sent off with a red card for receiving the second yellow.
Al-Jeddawi team satisfied its fans with this victory after being eliminated from the AFC Champions League after losing to Al-Hilal 0-4 on aggregate in the two-legged quarter-final matches. It also raised its score to 43 points, strengthening its position in fourth place, and now being 4 points away from its traditional rival, Al-Ahly, which is in third place. .
On the other hand, Al-Fateh continued its absence from victories for the sixth match in a row (3 draws and the same number of defeats), so its score froze at 31 points in ninth place.
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