TEHRAN, February 13 - Iranian professional soccer club Tractor Sazi Tabriz, also known as Tractor, has gone down to a narrow defeat against Al Ahli of Saudi Arabia in the group stage of the 2018 Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Champions League.
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) -Iranian professional soccer club Tractor Sazi Tabriz, also known as Tractor, has gone down to a narrow defeat against Al Ahli of Saudi Arabia in the group stage of the 2018 Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Champions League.
Tractor Sazi suffered a 0-1 loss from the Jeddah-based team at the end of a Group A opener played at the multi-purpose Seeb Sports Stadium in Oman on Monday evening.
The Saudi soccer players suffered an early blow after defender Mohammed al-Fatil was withdrawn seven minutes into the match with an injury to be replaced with 29-year-old Brazilian midfielder Claudemir Domingues de Souza, commonly known as Claudemir.
Even though Tractor went to great lengths to assert its dominance, Al Ahli footballers managed to break the deadlock in the 67th minutes as forward Muhannad Assiri headed a cross from fellow midfielder Abdulfattah Asiri into the bottom right corner.
In another match of the day, Iranian football club Zob Ahan Isfahan lost to Qatar’s Al Duhail 1-3 in a Group B fixture at the Abdullah bin Khalifa Stadium, also known as Lekhwiya SC Stadium, in the Qatari capital city of Doha.
Brazilian striker Kiros put the visiting team in front 10 minutes into the game.
Source: PressTV