00:00Hello and welcome to our live Friday night coverage from Dammam as the impressive Saudi
00:11Pro League new boys Al-Qadhia take on one of the big four, Al-Ali.
00:16Al-Qadhia have taken to life among the elite like a duck to water so far, conceding only
00:21one goal in the opening four matches and winning twice.
00:24They'll need to be at their best tonight to keep out the rich and varied attacking talents
00:27in Al-Ali's team.
00:29Plenty of eyes will be on the visitors' new star striker Ivan Toni, who made a dream home
00:34debut only last week.
00:36On this evidence, Al-Qadhia had better watch out.
00:42Aramco having taken control of the club last year and now back in the top division and
00:49looking to make their mark.
00:51It's Al-Ali all in the white who get us underway, but the home side with the opportunity to
00:57venture forward here now with the Haitham Asiri and it comes from Mahrez, the little
01:05flicked header on from Al-Buraikhin, whipped in once more to the far post and just wide
01:14and that was a close escape there for Al-Qadhia right at the start of the match.
01:22Asiri's done well, Hernandez is quick to run forward, but Roger Ibanez waiting for
01:30him.
01:31And an interesting moment that could have gone terribly wrong there and Abdulrahman
01:39Al-Sanbi is the most relieved man in Dammam at this moment, what an extraordinary moment.
01:49They should play here from the visiting side as they look to create an opportunity and
01:52Ivan Toni almost did, just flicking the ball back, but Asiri now.
01:59It's been lively Asiri, it's really lively and that was a good little opportunity there
02:05for Ivan Toni, good strength battle with Nacho, but I think he doesn't enough, but yeah Asiri's
02:09been lively and they're going to need him to hold the ball alongside the Bamiyan to
02:13apply them free kicks.
02:15Lovely little ball in to Al-Buraikhin, it was Ivan Toni who set him up and Al-Ali's
02:22number nine could only scoop it over the top.
02:25Cameron Puertas who made a bright start but has been a little bit quiet in the latter
02:33stages of this first half, they've got a penalty.
02:36I think the referee was having a little think about it for a few seconds and then pointed
02:41to the spot.
02:43The player's still not accepting the referee's decision, why are they asking him to go and
02:47have a look?
02:48And of course this doesn't really help Bamiyan does it?
02:50No it doesn't.
02:51Standing there, which of course they'll be aware of that as well.
02:53And they're hovering over the penalty spot side, so I've seen that tactics many a time.
02:58Of course sticking with his initial decision, it is a penalty kick and Pierre-Emericko Bamiyan
03:02who scored his first goal for his new club in the King's Cup tie last Sunday against
03:07Al-Aroba has the chance to score in the Saudi Pro League for the first time and to give
03:13his team the lead against Al-Ali and he has done it.
03:19Pierre-Emericko Bamiyan with his first league goal in Saudi Arabia and the newly promoted
03:26champions of the first division lead one of the big four, they lead Al-Ali by one goal
03:32to nil late in the first half.
03:35With Asiri the challenge made and now an opportunity and suddenly Al-Sanbi is in no man's land
03:42here and somehow it hasn't gone in.
03:46The attack's still alive, it's Bamiyan for Al-Qadhia, off the bar and Al-Sanbi getting
03:52nowhere near it once again.
03:55Still the attack goes on, Puertas sends it in goalward, Al-Ali alive and they could so
03:59easily have been 2-0 behind and they probably should have been as well because Iker Almeyna
04:07racing through glorious chance.
04:10I don't know how Almeyna's not scored but what a game, where's this been for the first
04:1342 minutes?
04:14It's been a brilliant game, unbelievable game but yeah he should be scoring.
04:25Real pressure on the goal there and it's pushed behind by Al-Sanbi and now Bamiyan's
04:29just starting to enjoy himself, he is look, it's just like, it's just a throw on and they
04:34don't deal with it, he just throws it into Bamiyan and he has the opportunity and he's
04:39probably disappointed because he goes for a side foot instead of going for his laces
04:42and it's a good save, comfortable save.
04:44We haven't seen too much of in this game, Roberto Firmino sending it across, Ivan Toni
04:48with the header, good save, Toni again slams the foot of the post, oh he did everything
04:53but score there, he was very unlucky.
04:55And you're right, we haven't seen Firmino and that's why we need to see more of him,
04:58it was good play down that left hand side and the first one he's unlucky Ivan Toni,
05:02I think the second one he'll be disappointed he's not scored.
05:08And Asiri misses it, Almeyna blasts it and very nearly makes it 2-0.
05:14Yeah it's a good save, I don't think he's going in but he has to make the save, Al-Sanabi
05:20Almeyna, it's good play from Bamiyan, Asiri misses it, it comes to him at the back post,
05:24mmm yeah it's a comfortable save.
05:26Another free kick, Mohamed Abou El-Shamat coming on, he's a right back, player coming
05:40on and it's into the back of the net but the flag has gone up and it will not count.
05:46Yeah it's a good ball and I think Al-Ali hold their line, he would have substituted
05:50Keith Muan, it would have been a great introduction, his first touch to be fair but I think he's
05:56just gone a bit early.
05:59And it goes once more, pressure still, oh man, he was scrambling there, Castile for
06:04a moment.
06:05Yeah and you know what it is now, they're getting crosses into the ball side and Toni's
06:08now become a threat because that's what he thrives on, crosses into the ball, into the
06:12box sorry and he's the one, first contact, he'll always get contact, here look, deft
06:17little touch there and he's so unlucky.
06:19It's a great battle isn't it?
06:20Oh it's a great battle with him and Nacho, it's been a great battle all evening.
06:23With Nacho against Ivan Toni.
06:24Brilliant.
06:25Ivan Toni and Alper Räikkönen in the middle, here's Firmino, still Roberto Firmino, and
06:31it all rather fizzles out for Al-Ali there.
06:36He does well Firmino, ever so well and I just think at the moment, wrong decision making,
06:41he tries to drill it and maybe should be standing it up to the back post.
06:47Set the bar pretty high for himself, Al-Juhani, there's a deflection there, that could easily
06:51have gone wrong for Castile's but he'll be relieved that there wasn't enough of a deflection
06:56to wrong foot him or put him out of reach, not really what they came for, Madrasi sending
07:01it across, away and lashed behind, it will be a goal kick and Riyad Mahrez rues an opportunity
07:09that's disappeared.
07:10With his technical ability, it's a big chance, he should be scoring.
07:15Aubameyang still showing plenty of pace and enthusiasm here, very late in the day, brilliant
07:20play by Aubameyang, can he finish it off?
07:24No, denied, but that was great play.
07:27He looks sharp, he looks sharp, Aubameyang, Ibanez thinks it's comfortable but still,
07:33in the 95th, 96th minute he's still chasing it and he'd probably be disappointed that
07:38he did get shot away but he's not finding the back of the net but yeah, he's had a really
07:41good game and led the line ever so well.
07:50And at last, a final whistle blows and it feels like something of a landmark victory
07:56for Al-Qadsiyeh, who have very much arrived in the Saudi Pro League, this newly promoted
08:02team, newly constructed team over the summer, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang's penalty shortly
08:07before half-time proving to be enough, this is the first time they've played one of the
08:13real traditional big four and they've beaten them, it's a second defeat in five to start
08:18the season for Al-Ali, Aubameyang's goal proving to be enough, it's a rotten week for the visitors
08:25knocked out of the cup as well and it has finished Al-Qadsiyeh one, Al-Ali nil.
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