Surprise in the Saudi Pro League with the victory of the fifth by the tail against the leader, in a meeting in which the VAR was protagonist. Benzema will continue leaders at least a couple more days, but they see how the Hilal cuts distances and is located only 4 points.
In the 10th minute, the surprise jumped at Al Fateh Club Stadium, where the premises were ahead on the scoreboard. Batna ran for the band and in a couple of touches he gave the ball to the center of the area, where Sbai took an impossible shoe for Al-Aqidi. 1-0 on the scoreboard and 80 minutes up for a leader who did not start with good footing 27.
The goal in favor gave hope to the locals, who sought to expand their advantage against an less intense ittihad than what it usually. The first controversy of the party would come hand in hand, never better, from a visiting defender by stopping a batna shot with his arm. The play was reviewed by the VAR, which considered that the defender was falling and was involuntary, nothing punishable.
But penalties would end up arriving. The first was in the 33rd minute, when a Kadesh stomp on Batna resulted in a maximum penalty in favor of the premises. It was Batna himself who threw and scored, but the goal did not go up to the scoreboard because the Moroccan hit the ball twice. Déjà vu. Ten minutes later it was Fabinho who shot from 11 meters due to one hand in the area, but Al Aqidi guessed the direction and kept his ahead on the scoreboard.
In the match between Fateh and Ittihad, the local team scored somewhat from the penalty point that ended up being annulled because Batna twice played the ball in the hit
In the second part of Ittihad he went out for the game. Two plays on the left wing warned of their intentions to match the match. A tie that would have uploaded to the score in the 61st minute had it not been for the heel centimeters that Benzema had advanced in a goal that ended up annuling after reviewing it in the VAR. He immediately responded to the local team, who returned to see the door in the 69 ‘minute. Al-Aqidi, who already dressed as a hero when he stopped a penalty, assisted Vargas with a large long serve that controlled the ‘monito’ to face goal and end up unleashing the madness in Al Fateh Club Stadium.