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Al Wasl loses the clasico with two goals to none

• 22 Oct, 2021

Al Wasl lost the Clásico match to Al Ain 2-0, in the match hosted by Za'abeel Stadium, in the seventh round of the ADNOC Pro League.

The first half began with a large rush of guests in the hope of scoring an early goal, but the emperor's defense was vigilant, and did not give space to the strikers of Al Ain, the emperor relied on narrowing the spaces and playing on counter attacks to exploit the speeds of Pottker and Araujo, and almost arrived in the 26th minute shook the net of the eye, after a quick counterattack led by Michel Araujo, who passed a perfect ball to Fabio Lima in the penalty area shot hard, but defender Yahya Nader succeeded in removing it at the last minute.

In the 34th minute, goalkeeper Ibrahim Essa did not manage to control the ball, to use this opportunity and open the scoring in The Clasico, Al Wasl tried to advance forward, and controlled the middle of the field in the last minutes of the first half to score the equalizer, but did not succeed in his quest, to end the first 45 minutes by advancing al Ain with a goal without reply.

Al Wasl entered the second half with high pressure on the visitors' defense, not giving them the opportunity to build the attack from behind, forcing them to play long balls, and Odair Hellmann pushing Ali Saleh and Salem Al Azizi, instead of Mufftaw Olabi and Hamad Al Balooshi, to increase the team's offensive capabilities.

In the 76th minute, Al Ain boosted their lead through striker Caio Canido, who took advantage of a false pass from defender Mohamed Sabil to shoot the ball into the far left corner of goalkeeper Ibrahim essa.

Hellmann tried to return in the game by making two substitutions at once in the 86th minute with the entry of Mohamed Al-Akabri, Ghanem Ahmed in place of Michel Araujo, William Pottker, to end the match with al-Ain's 2-0 victory over Al Wasl.

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