The Al -Riffa and Eastern Riffa match is one of the most prominent confrontations of the quarter -finals of the 48th version of the His Majesty Cup competition for the current season 2024/2025, which ended with the victory of Riffa with a penalty shootout with a score of 7/6, after the original time ended with a positive tie with a goal, and the positive tie until the additional stages that witnessed the two teams scored for the second goal.
Al -Riffa and under the leadership of his Spanish coach Carlos Hernandez were the best in most of the match, through spreading, organizing, acquiring the ball and making the opportunity, but he suffered at the level of the back line from the presence of spaces and the lack of appropriate coverage in some periods of this meeting, as this caused not to maintain its progress after he scored the first goal in the early period of the first half and also presented it with the second goal in the additional runs.
On the other hand, the eastern Riffa and under the leadership of his Romanian coach, Florin Mitrouk, relied on defensive coverage, closing spaces and trying to advance through the counterattacks, through which he succeeded in equalizing the result by scoring the first goal in the first period of the meeting. Although Riffa advanced with the second goal in the additional runs, the Sharqawi battalion did not raise the banner of surrender, and succeeded in equating the result in stoppage time from the second additional half, after which the two teams governed the penalty shootout.
Al -Riffa succeeded in resolving things in his favor and qualifying for the semi -finals of the most expensive cups, after his alternative goalkeeper Abdul Karim Verdan, who managed to repel two penalty kicks during the penalty shootout, which gave preference and victory in favor of “heavenly” in this exciting confrontation.
