Match Report
7 points and 3 places separated them: Al-Madina 4th with 6, Asswehly 1st with 13. Al-Madina ranked just 40th in the league on five-round form despite their 4th table position. Per game in the league, Al-Madina were scoring 1.5 and conceding 1.25, Asswehly 1.6 and 0.2, against a competition average of 1.16 goals per team per game.
Al-Madina had lost four in a row. Asswehly came in having won four on the spin. Al-Madina had banked 3 of the last 15 points on offer; Asswehly, 12.
9 meetings are on record — 1 won by Al-Madina, 6 by Asswehly, 2 drawn, at 2.78 goals per meeting.
The match was played at 11 June Stadium (capacity 67,000). It was 0-0 at the break, and the second half added 3 goals for the 0-3 full-time score.
Goal scorers
Asswehly: Zadulkheir Boukhatwa (65'), Abdulati Al Abbasi (67'), John Oto John (90')