Saw a match Al Ain vs Al Hilal Scoring 9 goals and missing more in the summit that the Saudi team won 5-4 over the defending champion, amidst its fans in the Emirates, at Hazza Bin Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi, within the matches of the third round of the group stage in AFC Champions League for the elite.
Al Ain vs Al Hilal
The match witnessed 2 hat-tricks scored by Salem Al-Dosari for Al-Hilal andSufyan Rahimi For Al Ain, Neymar also returned to participate with Al Hilal for the first time in more than a year after his injury, as he came on as a substitute in the second half, and Ali Al Bulayhi, the Saudi leader’s defender, was also sent off.
The first half ended with Al Hilal leading 3-1, with the hat-trick being scored by Lodi, Savic and Salem Al Dosari in the 26th, 47th and 50th minutes, and Sufyan Rahimi reduced the difference in the 39th minute.
In the second half, Al Hilal added two goals through Salem Al-Dosari in the 65th and 75th minutes, giving the Saudi national team star the hat-trick, and Sufyan Rahimi responded with two more goals in the 67th and 96th minutes, giving the Moroccan national team star the hat-trick as well.
AFC Champions League Elite Ranking
Al Hilal maintained its lead in the second group with 9 points with the full mark, as it achieved its third victory in a row by winning the first match over its Qatari counterpart, Al Rayyan, by three to one, and repeated its victory over the Iraqi police, with a clean score of five.
While Al Ain fell to eleventh place and penultimate with one point, after drawing in the first match with Al Sadd of Qatar 1-1, while losing 2-4 to Al Gharafa of Qatar.
AFC Champions League for the elite
The AFC Champions League system changed starting from the current season, as the group stage includes 24 teams, divided into two groups, for East and West Asia, each group includes 12 teams.
The clubs within each group will compete with each other in a league system, where each team will face 8 different clubs, 4 of which will be held at home and 4 of which will be held outside its stadium, applying the principle that no two teams from the same country will face each other, and the draw was drawn via artificial intelligence.
The first 8 clubs in each group qualify for the round of 16, so that the Eastern clubs face each other in a home-and-away system, as well as the Western clubs, so that 8 clubs qualify for the quarter-finals. After that, the tournament system will be modified, starting from the quarter-finals until the final match. It will be held in the combined tournament system in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia during the period between April 25 and May 5, 2025 to announce the Asian champion in the current season.
Match goals
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