Lekhwiya 0 - 8 blaizers (392860324)

Clear skies welcomed the 12000 spectators who had made their way to Qatar SC Stadium. Hieronymus Schiebler was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Leons Voldiņš and Peter Magnusson. Lekhwiya had chosen a strategic 5-3-2 formation. They fielded: Al-Hachem - Bin Jassim Al-Saadi, Gerer, Al-Khalifa, Kajdan, Lambetain - Briones, Conchares, Vanhooymissen - Al-Aseri, Arghavani.

blaizers started off with a 4-3-3 lineup. The following players took the field: Martins - Estner, Jonasson, Ölschléger, Trübger - Pichaim, Bin Faisal Al-Hitmi, Baturay - Zakiba, Uściłowski, Mednyánszky.

Lekhwiya clearly preferred using their ability to attack in the middle. For their match strategy, blaizers had decided to use their ability to counter-attack whenever possible. blaizers's B. Trübger managed to lose the defenders as he advanced down the right wing and scored, putting the visitors ahead after 13 minutes. 0 - 1. With 15 minutes played, L. Mednyánszky nearly put the visitors another one up as he broke through in the middle and fired from just outside the box, but his shot passed just over the bar. T. Bin Faisal Al-Hitmi came close to extending the visitors' lead when he found himself completely unmarked in front of the goal after a pass through the middle. He tried to lift the ball over K. Al-Hachem but overcooked it and hit the bar instead. Some fine movement on the left led to a blaizers goal after 35 minutes, making it 0 - 2. A. Zakiba was noted down as the scorer. blaizers increased their lead after 39 minutes when T. Bin Faisal Al-Hitmi broke through on the right, upping the score to 0 - 3, much to the home crowd's dismay. The players of blaizers now seemed to think the job was done and acted more defensively, just waiting for the ref to blow the final whistle. blaizers's M. Estner refused to leave the field after injuring his achilles tendon after 40 minutes. 0 - 3 was the score after the first half. blaizers had most of the ball, with 78 percent of possession.

T. Bin Faisal Al-Hitmi was, after 47 minutes, almost able to extend the visitors' lead with a well placed diving header after the ball had looped into the centre, but the home side's keeper K. Al-Hachem made the save. 52 minutes into the game, Lekhwiya seemed to suffer a certain amount of confusion and they fell to a passable level of organisation. After 59 minutes a combination in the middle resulted in a through ball for L. Mednyánszky who increased blaizers's lead to 0 - 4. The head of Y. Baturay connected with a corner kick after 64 minutes, and the ball ended up with L. Mednyánszky of blaizers who blasted the ball into the net, making the score 0 - 5. blaizers increased the lead to 0 - 6 as T. Bin Faisal Al-Hitmi scored from the penalty spot, putting the ball in near the top left corner. With 70 minutes played, blaizers put themselves up 0 - 7 after an attack from the right, caused by a defensive blunder. The scorer was A. Zakiba. The visitors added to their lead 75 minutes into the game, after a sensational penalty kick by blaizers's T. Bin Faisal Al-Hitmi slid just past the home keeper. 0 - 8. At that, T. Bin Faisal Al-Hitmi was noted down for a hat trick! blaizers claimed to have seen most of the ball, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 86 percent.

Lekhwiya's top performer was clearly S. Al-Khalifa. On the other hand, K. Al-Hachem's play was disheartening. Most important blaizers player was Y. Baturay. M. Estner on the other hand, had a terrible day. The match ends 0 - 8.