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Al-Gharafa and Al-Khor tied with two goals each

Al-Gharafa and Al-Khor teams tied with two goals each in the meeting that brought them together at Al Janoub Stadium in the twentieth week of the QNB Stars League. Jonathan Kodjia scored two goals in the 36th and 90th minutes, and Ahmed Hammoudan and Luka Burgess scored the goals of Al Khor in the 48th and 52nd minutes. With this result, each team got a point, bringing Al Gharafa's balance to 32 points, while Al Khor became 16 points. As for the events of the match, the first half was very equal, and despite control and possession it was the share of Al-Gharafa during most of this half, but the opportunities and danger were mutual, and despite the shrinkage of Al-Khor in the middle of his stadium, he had the speed of rebounding from defense to attack depending on Ahmed Hammoudan and Thiago's attack speed, and this duo managed to form a clear danger to Qasim Burhan's goal. Before these two opportunities, two opportunities appeared like them for Hector Moreno, the first for Al Gharafa, when he hit a direct ball that Baba Gabriel managed to save and brilliantly turned a corner in the tenth minute, and a shot by Sufian Hani in the 17th minute was also saved by Baba Jibril. Nine minutes before the end of the game, Jonathan Kodjia was able to put Al Gharafa ahead with the goal of a beautiful tactical sentence led by Moayad Hassan, who passed Jamila to Kodjia, so her last turn with a touch in the goal, scoring the first goal of Al Gharafa in the 36th minute, to end this game with the progress of Al Gharafa. The start of the second half came very strong from the side of Al Khor and was able to score two goals within four minutes, the first in the 48th minute, with a pass from Hilal Mohammed alone, after which Ahmed Hamoudan went off and put it into the net the moment Qasim Burhan left to meet him. In the 52nd minute, Lucca added the second goal of Al-Khor from a penalty kick, as Youssef Miftah defied Al-Gharafa defender Ahmed Hamoudan inside the penalty area. Al-Gharafa tried to adjust the result and return to the match, which forced his players to rush to the attack and leave empty spaces that Al-Khor players tried to use to snatch a third goal. Al-Gharafa players did not give up and continued their attack until the 90th minute came when Jonathan Kodjia scored the second goal for him and his team with a cross, which was met directly by Jamila in the goal, to end the meeting with the two teams tied with two goals each.