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#ChallengeLeague | QF, 1st Leg: Al Arabi FC (KUW) 1-0 Al Seeb Club (OMA)

QF - 1st Leg: Al Arabi SC (KUW) 1-0 Al Seeb Club (OMA)

Sulaibikhat: Substitute Bandar Al Salamah struck a stoppage time winner as Al Arabi SC sealed a dramatic 1-0 win over Al Seeb Club in their AFC Challenge League™ 2024/25 quarter-final first leg tie on Wednesday.
Both sides missed opportunities in a keenly-contested affair at Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah Stadium before Al Salamah - on for just 11 minutes and subsequently sent off - nodded home the winner which means Al Arabi will have a lead to protect when the sides meet in next week’s return leg at Al Seeb Stadium.
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After a cagey start, Al Arabi were the first to find an opening with Ali Khalaf’s spectacular long range effort in the 19th minute only narrowly missing the target.

Jolted into action, Al Seeb produced their first shot on target two minutes later when Ali Al Busaidi burst into the box but saw his low shot well blocked by Al Arabi custodian Sulaiman Abdulghafoor.
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The home side continued to probe and nearly found the breakthrough with 10 minutes of the first half left to play when Powei Christopher picked out Anayo Iwuala with a superb cross only for the Nigerian forward to skew his shot wide from close range.
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After the interval, Al Arabi once again went close to breaking the deadlock in the 47th minute when Khalaf latched onto a cutback at the edge of the box, however, the 30-year-old forward smashed his effort just wide.

A quickly taken corner kick in the 75th minute saw Al Seeb’s Omer Al Fazari - who was only sent on five minutes earlier - crash a header against the bar with Abdulghafoor well beaten.
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Al Arabi head coach Naser Al Shatti took a risk in the closing minutes by sending on heavily strapped forward Al Salamah as the home side chased the breakthrough.

The 22-year-old forward repaid his coach’s trust in the first minute of added time, heading in the only goal of the game to give Al Arabi the win although his over-exuberant celebrations saw him shown a second yellow card which rules him out of the second leg.

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