Doha: Iraqi national team left Arab Football Cup competitions after losing 0-3 to Qatar counterpart today Monday in the third round of Group A of the Arab Football Cup, which is currently taking place in Qatar. The balance of the Iraqi team froze at two points to occupy the third place (penultimate), to greet the championship after losing and winning the opponent for the qualification, the Oman team, on the Bahraini counterpart for 3- 0. The Omani team upped the score to four points to take second place and seize the qualifying card for the quarter-finals, while the Bahraini team’s budget froze at some point to take fourth and last place in Ranking. The Qatar team, on the other hand, raised their score to nine points in head to the group, after winning his three games in the group. The Qatar side waited until the 82nd minute to score the first goal with striker Al-Moez Ali, before Akram Afif scored the second goal in the 85th minute. In the fourth minute of the second half, Hassan Al-Haydos scored the third goal for the Qatar team. The match began with the pressure of the Iraqi team to score a goal in advance that increases the team’s chances of reaching the quarter-finals, but failed to threaten the Qatari team goalkeeper, Yousef Hassan. And the first quarter of an hour passed without news on the level of the result, while the players of the Qatar team, qualified before entering in that group, they exchanged the ball between them calmly and concentration, unlike the Iraqi team, who wanted to attack the Qatar goal soon. The most important occasions of the match came in the 22nd minute with Bashar Resan, the Iraqi national player, unique in Yusuf Hassan’s goal, but hit a ball that was blocked by the Qatar goalkeeper. In the 38th minute, Iraqi midfielder Yasser Qassem threw a ball from outside area penalty, which however bounced off the right post of Yusef Hassan’s goal, then the Qatar defense successfully rejected him. The rest of the first half saw nothing new, so the referee blew the last one in a goalless draw between the two teams. With the start of the second half, the Iraqi team made several attempts to score the goal, but the Qatar defense and their goalkeeper managed to keep the danger out of the door. Muhammad Muntari missed the opportunity to score for the Qatar side in the 55th minute when he penetrated in area penalty, before hitting a ball that was constantly blocked by Fahd Talib, the Iraqi goalkeeper. In the 72nd minute, Qatar player Hassan Al Haidos struck a powerful ball from outside area penalty, but bounced off the left post of the Iraqi goal. Likewise, an opportunity was lost for the Iraqi team in the 79th minute with a shot from their player Muhammad Qasim. In the 82nd minute, the Qatar team managed to score the first goal of the match with striker Al-Moez Ali, after an individual attempt that resulted in in area penalty the Iraqi team to hit the right corner of goalkeeper Fahd Talib’s net. The Qatar team did not wait any longer to score the second goal, as he succeeded through his reserve star Akram Afif, who was the only one in Iraq’s goal and hit the ball to the goalkeeper’s left, scoring the goals in the 85th minute. The Qatar team continued their brilliance in the final minutes and managed to score the third goal with Hassan Al-Haydos, who received a pass from Akram Afif inside thearea of rigor to put it brilliantly in goal, scoring the third goal. The rest of the match minutes saw nothing new, so the referee blew his whistle at the end of the match, with the Qatari team winning 3-0 over their Iraqi counterparts. (Dpa)
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