Diaby fouled out, but Al-Oboud's determining goal converts the team's disadvantage on the field into a substantial win.
Match Report:
Al-Ittihad Jeddah secured a thrilling 1-0 victory over Al-Hazm on Friday in Matchday 27 of the Roshen League.
The match’s only goal was scored by Abdulrahman Al-Aboud in the 72nd minute.
With this result, Jeddah United moved up to 45 points in sixth place, whilst Al-Hazm dropped to 11th place with 31 points.
In the 27th minute of the first half, French star Moussa Diaby squandered a golden opportunity for Al-Ittihad after receiving the ball in front of an open goal, but he shot wide of the post.
Frenchman Moussa Diaby, the star player for Al-Ittihad Jeddah, got his team into trouble after violently fouling Al-Hazm’s Abdulrahman Al-Dakhil in the 33rd minute of the match.
The referee initially showed Diaby a yellow card, before the assistant referee informed him that the incident warranted a red card, which deprived Al-Ittihad of their French player’s services.
Al-Ittihad were awarded a penalty in the second half of the match following a challenge between Hossam Awar and an Al-Hazm defender, but the VAR prompted the referee to review the incident.
The referee decided to overturn the penalty and award possession to Al-Hazm after confirming that there had been no foul on Awar, who had fallen on his own inside the Al-Hazm penalty area.
Abdulrahman Al-Aboud scored the winning goal for Al-Ittihad in the 72nd minute of the match, after receiving a superb pass from Hossam Awar, which put him one-on-one with Al-Hazm’s goalkeeper, before slotting the ball into the net with a precise low shot.
Line-ups
Al-Ittihad Club XI: Danilo Pereira, P. Rajković, Fabinho, Bergwijn, En-Nesyri, Diaby, Muhannad Shanqeeti, Faisal Al-Ghamdi, Ahmed Al-Ghamdi, Hasan Kadesh, Jan-Carlo Simić
Subs: Abdulaziz Al-Bishi, Abdulrahman Al-Oboud, Aouar, Awad Al-Nashri, Osama Al-Mermesh, Mohammed Barnawi, Ahmed Al-Julaydan, Mohammed Al-Absi, Mohammed Ahmed Fallatah
Al Hazem XI: Ibrahim Zaied, Yousef Al-Shammari, Nawaf Al-Habashi, Abdulrahman Al-Dakheel, Loreintz Rosier, Ahmed Al-Nakhli, Elias Mokwana, Mohammed Al-Yami, Sultan Tunkar, Saud Al-Rashid, Aboubacar Bah
Subs: Youssouf Oumarou, Abdulaziz Al-Dwehe, Majed Al-Ghamdi, Abdullah Al-Shanqiti, Abdulaziz Al-Harbi, Ahmed Al-Shamrani, Hassan Idris, Amadou Bamba Dieng, Thamer Mustafa Yahya Muhaddili