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The "EMPEROR" knocked out from the pro league cup after losing in the Classico

• 05 Jan, 2022

The Emperor lost the Clásico match to Al Ain, 4-3 in the match held at Zabeel Stadium, in the second leg of the League Cup quarter-finals.

AlWasl received an early goal in the 5th minute through The Player Juanka, who took advantage of a positioning error for the emperor's defenders, but the yellow team quickly regained control and launched a series of dangerous attacks on the guests, in the 10th minute Mofftao Olabi almost realized the equalizer from a powerful header that he hit but collided on the right-hand post of Khaled Issa.

The emperor did not give up and in the 15th minute succeeded in scoring through the header of al Ain defender Jonatas by mistake in his goal, then pressed the yellow strongly and showed a desire to score a second goal to complicate things more on the eye.

In the 20th minute, Ramiro Benetti played a neat cross from the right side of Adreelson Silva, who rose from among the visitors' defenders to shoot a header that inhabited Khaled Issa's net, announcing the emperor's second goal.

Al Wasl took control of the middle of the field, and became the controller of the meeting without any real danger on the part of the guests, and had more than one chance to score a third goal through Ali Saleh "Golden Boy" but was not successful, in the 26th minute he passed from more than one player with high skill and hit a rocket ball but it raised the crossbar, followed by another chance in the 36th minute after he followed the ball that was missed by Khaled Issa, to play the golden boy double background, in the goal Al-Khali passed next to the right-hand post, ending the first half with the emperor leading 2-0.

At the beginning of the second half, Wasl received a surprise goal in the 53rd minute, after Khaled Issa played a long pass, behind the defenders wasl to striker Juanka, who singled out the goalkeeper Mohamed Ali, putting the ball in the net, amid the demands of the players to return to the video technology, because of the infiltration of the player Al Ain. The emperor returned quickly and advanced for the third time in the 60th minute after a quick and organized attack, led by Ali Saleh, who played a wonderful cross at the head of the young player Abdallah Khamis.

Contrary to the direction of play, Al Ain returns and scores the equaliser through Jonatas, who took advantage of another mistake in the emperor's defensive positioning, and hit a ball to the right of goalkeeper Mohamed Ali.

In the 73rd minute Odier Hillman pushed Nathan Felipe at the expense of Mohamed Srour, to increase the team's offensive capabilities, followed by another switch in the 83rd minute with the entry of Mohamed Alabbri, instead of Salem Al Azizi.

In the 84th minute, the referee scored a penalty for Al Ain after Abdullah Khamis blocked striker Lapa Kudjo to score the fourth goal.

Hillman tried to remedy the situation and pushed two substitutes with the entry of Habush Saleh and Michel Araujo, instead of Abdallah Khamis and Ali Salemin, but the emperor was unable to modify the result to end the meeting with a 4-3 loss to the League Cup.

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