Al Hilal wins Al-Faisaly with Giovinco and continues to show the way

He re-scored six points with a win in the title race

The Al Hilal team managed to translate control of almost the entire match to win a very important league win at the expense of Al Faisali, who maintained the difference of 6 points with his Traditional rival Al-Nasr, second in the meeting that brought the two teams to King Saud University. Prince Mohammed bin Salman Cup for professionals.

Al Hilal increased his lead to 55 points at the top while the points counter for Al Faisali stopped at 30 points to stay eighth.

Al Hilal entered the competition with fierce pressure on Al Faisali's goal to push the players of the latter to retire to face the speeds of Gomez, Giovinco, Shahrani and Brik.

The first real threat came in the sixth minute when Salem Al Dosari sent a cross from the right. Gomez's goal was dangerous, but goalkeeper Mustapha Malakika saved the situation.

Al-Hilal continued to dominate the midfield by launching numerous attacks while Al-Faisali's defense did not stand up against Giovinco, Al Dosari and Bric in the 18th minute, when Al -Dosari picked up a special ball. Confidence in the goal by announcing the first goals.

Salem Al Dosari and Mohammed Al-Brik were the real danger for Faisali's defense: in two successive attempts to visit the nets, the first was scored by Brik after a delicate break inside the penalty area . Two minutes later, Al Hilal was playing a special technical match that Giovinco had started by passing the ball to Brik, which allowed him to reduce the size of Al Dosari out of control, but lacked the risk to score a goal for Halal.

As expected, the start of the second half was at the peak of excitement and it became apparent that the Faisali team was not to repeat the scenario of the first half when he had managed to restore balance after the time needed to change the result after 4 minutes.

Despite the relative advantage of Al Hilal, Al Faisali surprised the visitors by equalizing when Fahd Al Ansari gave a free kick to the head of Igor, who took advantage of the poor defense position to pass above everyone and place this goal in the shot of Abdullah Al-Mayouf.

The hosts absorbed the shock of the goal and, after a few minutes, resumed the offensive activity, which was fast. The team sought to record a goal of preference that would have almost yielded to the goalkeeper's skills and care of the players and that seemed to be focusing on the last hurdle, the biggest hurdle in front of them.

In the 71st minute, the Brazilian Igor Rossi made a mistake on the striker Giovinco, who gave a free kick to the edge of the penalty area and was saved by goalkeeper Mustafa Malaika to give a free kick. in Shalhoub. Registration

The Faisali defense assumed the bulk of the responsibility after the Crescent's attacks had taken place in the remaining time but the players' insistence to score eventually materialized in the 79th minute when Chalhoub managed a ball at the home to Giovinno Snape after the defense before firing a rocket that stabilized at the far right of goal Mustafa Melaka.

In the final minutes, the Crescent's attempts to get as little damage as possible from Yasser Al Shahrani's expulsion at the third minute calculated an alternative to the load to complete the team with ten men.