League Play-Off

Rothley Park
Spectators: 35 (Terracing: 27, Seating: 8, VIP seats: 0) The mood of the audience was pleasant when Jaffer Al Ajmi made the kick off which started today's match. Firas Al Rifaee received a nice pass in the box and took a hard shot in the 4th minute. Morjan Al Ali tensed up and prepared to dive, but the shot went over the goal with him having to interfere. After a rather tough play, Hayle's Msaed Al Najdi got a free kick in the 8th minute. Rothley United's attacker deliberately struck the ball against an opponent to win a corner for his team. The corner was taken by Derar Al Naqi in the 13th minute. After taking down the ball on Rothley United's corner Derar Al Naqi fired away a hard shot, but the defenders efficiently covered the most dangerous angles and Morjan Al Ali quite easily take care of the ball. When Firas Al Rifaee came up free with the goalie in the 16th minute, the Rothley United fans jumped to their feet. But the shot missed the goal by a fraction of an inch, and the fans sat back down disappointed that Firas Al Rifaee couldn't finish the play. Jaffer Al Ajmi fired away a screaming shot towards the goal in the 20th minute, but the shot went just over the crossbar without Ameen Al Khars having to interfere. In the 22nd minute, Bahaa Al Motaire hit a crossing free kick to the open man running down the field. It was beautiful to see Rothley United's Derar Al Naqi in action when he in the 24th minute dribbled his way through a couple of opponents and the fired away a shot from almost standing still. First the ball seemed to get in, but turned out to be on the outside of the net. A great chance! Luai Al Rodhan charged in rather forcefully in the 25th minute of the match, and managed to knock his opponent down. The referee showed Luai Al Rodhan the yellow card, and asked the players to shake hands before continuing play. After 25 played minutes Rothley United got a freekick which was hit by Luai Al Rodhan. The audience was convinced that Abdul Rahman Al Hadad's extremely hard shot when he got free in front of the goal was going in, but Ameen Al Khars was relentless in the 27th minute of the game. With a little luck, Hayle's Morjan Al Ali got control of the ball when Firas Al Rifaee tried to sneak it across the goal line. Moner Al Hashash received a nice pass in the box and took a hard shot in the 32nd minute. Morjan Al Ali tensed up and prepared to dive, but the shot went over the goal with him having to interfere. Rothley United's Firas Al Rifaee got a good chance for a goal in the 34th minute, but he totally mistimed the shot and it went over the crossbar. In the 38th minute, Moner Al Hashash reached a very good position and smashed the ball with a huge effort into the net, just to the left of Morjan Al Ali. The goal made the score 1-0. When Rothley United's Moner Al Hashash in the 42nd minute got a chance for a shot 42nd didn't hesitate and placed the ball to the right of the goalie. A beautiful save bye Hayle's goalie prevented a goal. The crowd rose to their feet as Rothley United's Moner Al Hashash slotted home a wonderful shot that went in to the left of Morjan Al Ali. That made the score 2-0 after 44 minutes of play. The away team players looked dejected as the walked off the pitch at half time. They had fought hard, but were still losing 2-0.

Rothley United's Firas Al Rifaee got a good chance for a goal in the 51st minute, but he totally mistimed the shot and it went over the crossbar. Morjan Al Ali took care of the ball after a well-directed shot from Firas Al Rifaee, even though the ball almost passed him on his left side. In the last second Ameen Al Khars throw himself and got hold of the ball when Jaffer Al Ajmi in the 56thth minute from his position got away a shot towards the right post. Ameen Al Khars came out of the goal in the 67th minute to try and stop a shot by Hayle's Abdul Rahman Al Hadad. But to his dismay, Abdul Rahman Al Hadad quickly shot the ball in between his legs and into the goal making it 3-1. Nader Al Rodhan's late challenge caught a Hayle's player on the shin and left him crawling around in pain. The referee blew his whistle and produced the yellow card. Nader Al Rodhan helped the player get up and apologised. Nader Al Rodhan kicked well hit freekick during the 73rd minute of the match. Firas Al Rifaee hit a great freekick 78 minutes into the match. 88 minutes into the match, Luai Al Rodhan notched a goal, 4-1, to the right of Hayle's Morjan Al Ali. Morjan Al Ali was clearly disgusted with the effort of the defense and let the defenders know about it. If Moner Al Hashash had kept his shot down it would have been a goal in the 94th minute. The ball went over the crossbar and out instead. Moner Al Hashash scored 5-1 in the 97th match minute with a shot that went into the goal to the right of Morjan Al Ali, who was just a little too slow in reacting to the shot. For all the effort they put into the match, the Hayle players left disappointed. They had fought hard, but couldn't break down the home team's defense. The match ended in a win for Rothley United.