Walid Abdullah
The Khalidiya Club team crowned the title of 48th edition of the Great King Cup for the Sports season 2024/2025, after it turned two goals to win three goals at the expense of the Sitra Club team, in the match that brought the two teams “Friday” at the stadium of Khalifa Sports City, in the final of this version of the competition.
The goals of Khalidiya, Jovan Marinkovic, Mahdi Humaidan, and Al -Badil Mahdi Abdel Jabbar, scored the goals of the Mayon Douglas jacket from the penalty kick and Othman Al -Hajj.
The squad begins for the elevation of the match with the squad that includes goalkeeper Mohamed Al -Grabli, Sayed Diaa Saeed, Dergham Ismail, Ali Ezzaeh, Ahmed Boughamar, Gilson Moreira, Mahdi Humaidan, Philip Ivankovic, Nizar Al -Rashdan, Jovan Marinkovic and Muhammad Al -Rumaihi. While the confrontation jacket began in the goalkeeper Abbas Ahmed, Mayon Douglas, Abdel -Wasa Al -Matari, Badr Bashir, Othman Al -Hajj, Othman Hussein, Ali Nasser, Imran Elias, Abdoul Diarra, Emmanuel Vince and Alexander Ambonsah.
Strawy advanced
The first half of the match did not rise to the required performance, as the reservation was evident by the two teams, and after the first ten minutes, Khalidiya began to advance, trying to impose his playing style, as he managed to take the relative acquisition of the ball and moved it in the middle and edges of the stadium in an attempt to advance the result. However, Sitra played realistically in this half through defensive coverage and progress through the counted balls by relying on Abdul -Wasa Al -Matari, Ali Nasser, Othman Hussein, Abdul Karim Diyara and Amran Elias in the midfield and the movements of striker Othman Al -Hajj in the introduction line.
The first chances of meeting in the 2nd minute were a shot by striker Mohamed Al -Rumaihi, which went out of the field, without pose the danger required in the range of Sitra. In the 17th minute, Gilson Moreira, who arrived at goalkeeper Abbas Ahmed, who nullified her effect.
Twenty minutes after the time of the half, specifically the 23rd minute, a jacket gets a penalty that was the turning point in this half in favor of a jacket. And that is after striker Othman Al -Hajj kidnapped the ball from goalkeeper Mohammed Al -Gharably and defender Flip, Ivankovic, who caused a clear obstacle to the pilgrim inside the area of the operations, where the ruling does not hesitate for a moment to calculate a penalty, to address its implementation and with the success of the defender Mayan Douglas, through which he scored the goal of the first progress in favor of a jacket in this half.
The numerical deficiency in the ranks of Khalidiya caused a clear defect and errors at the level of the back line, where Sitra was able to strengthen his progress by adding the second goal of the 30th minute, which carried the signature of striker Othman Al -Hajj, who received a ball from his teammate Abdel -Sa`di Al -Matari, where Al -Hajj was able to put the ball inside the Al -Khalidawi goal.
After the second Al -Sitrawi goal, Al -Khalidiya went to make a change by Ali Azizah and involve the player Sayyid Reda Issa, “Ridai”.
After that, Khalidiya tried to organize his ranks, trying to reduce the difference before returning to the dressing room, where he managed to score the first goal in the 46th minute of stoppage time through defender Jovan Marinkovic, to end the first half with a jacket with two goals to one goal for Khalidiya.
Khaldawi victory
In the second half, specifically in the first minute of 46, Khalidiya managed to equal the result, after the player Mahdi Humaidan succeeded in scoring the second goal with the head of the goalkeeper Abbas Ahmed to repel it to embrace the ball of the stroke net. Al -Khalidiya changed a change before the start of this half by involving striker Mahdi Abdel -Jabbar as an alternative to striker Mohamed Al -Rumaihi.
He made a switching jacket by involving the player Issa Senqu as an alternative to Othman Hussein.
After that, a jacket imposed his control on the course of the half, taking advantage of the retreat of Khalidiya to secure his area due to the numerical deficiency, but this did not result in a clear danger to a jacket in this half. Stroke goal.
Al -Khaldiya made a substitute for the involvement of the player Sayed Mahdi Baqir to strengthen the defensive line.
After that, the jacket tried to advance to realize the equalizer, but Al -Khalidiya succeeded in closing the crossing outlets amid the brilliance of goalkeeper Mohammed Al -Gharably and the correct positioning of the defenders, ending the confrontation with the victory of Al -Khalidiya with three goals to two goals for a jacket.
