Thu, 28 Oct, 2021
Ardiyah: After opening their AFC Cup title defence with a 2-0 win over Turkmenistan’s Ahal, Qadsia SC continued the defence of their domestic crow with a victory as Danijel Subotic scored twice in the Kuwait champions’ 2-1 away win over Al Nasr on Saturday.
The Bosnian-Swiss striker (pictured during Qadsia’s ACL playoff against Al Ahli) put the visitors 1-0 up from the spot after 24 minute of the Kuwait Premier League Round 17 fixture gone and although Al Nasr would draw level through a penalty of their own, which was successfully converted by Faisal Al Enazi in the 52nd minute, Subotic struck again just three minutes later with what transpired to be the winning goal.
Meanwhile, Abdulhadi Khudair hit a first-half hat-trick as Kuwait SC followed up their 4-1 AFC Cup 2015 Group D opening win with an emphatic 9-0 hammering of Kuwait Premier League strugglers Al Tadamon on Saturday.
Khudair, who was unable to get his name on the score sheet against the Lebanese champions before being replaced in the 77th minute by Ahmad Dhahi, netted in the 29th, 39th and 42nd minutes to make it 4-0, with the three-time AFC Cup winners’ third goal coming just 60 seconds after Yosif Al Khebeezi had accounted for Kuwait SC’s third.
Al Khebeezi got his second two minutes after the interval before goals from Fahad Homoud (56th) and Husain Hakim (79th) either side of penalties from Abdul Aziz Al Maqbali (58th) and Abdulrahman Al Hesainan (85th) completed the emphatic win that consolidated Kuwait SC’s second place position in the standings.
Last season’s runners-up are on 39 points, one ahead of Qadsia SC and five adrift of 2014/15 Kuwait Premier League leaders Al Arabi.
Kuwait SC return to continental action on March 11 when they host Bahrain’s Riffa while Qadsia continue the defence of their AFC Cup crown when they take on Iraq’s Arbil in Doha on the same day as the 2014 champions and runners-up meet in Doha in a rematch of last year’s final.
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