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Day 4 Reports

THAI SON NAM FC 2-1 AL RAYYAN SC

Isfahan: Vietnam’s Thai Son Nam booked their place in Wednesday’s semi-finals of the AFC Futsal Club Championship on Tuesday with a 2-1 win over Al Rayyan from Qatar at Nagshe Jahan Stadium.
Bruno Garcia’s side became the first team from their country to reach the last four of the competition thanks to goals from Saul Olmo Campana and Tran Long Vu in the opening four minutes of the game.
An own goal by Thai Son Nam goalkeeper Ngo Dinh Thuan brought Al Rayyan back into the game, but Enrique Martinez’s team were unable to break through the Vietnamese side’s defence for a second time.

Thai Son Nam will now face either MFC Emgek of Kyrygzstan or Qadsia SC from Kuwait for a place in the final on Friday with none of the three teams having ever reached the last four of the continental club championship.

Garcia dedicates historic win to chairman and captain

Thai Son Nam signalled their intent right from the start, with Phung Trong Luan hitting the post after just 20 seconds as the Vietnamese piled forward. Within the first minute, they had taken the lead when Campana’s shot from outside the area beat goalkeeper Sepehr Mohammadi to his right.

Still the Vietnamese side pushed forward, with Campana shooting across goal in the third minute and in the fourth minute they doubled their lead when Pham Duc Hoa saw his shot saved by Mohammadi, only for Long Vu to score on the rebound.

Five minutes later, Thai Son Nam should have made it 3-0 when a one-two between Ngo Ngoc Son and Artur Yusunov set up Ngoc Son for an easy finish into an empty net but somehow he managed to send the ball high over the bar.

Al Rayyan finally gained a foothold in the game in the 12th minute when Ngo Dinh Thuan bundled the ball over his own goal line as the Qataris put the Vietnamese defence under pressure, but Thai Son Nam went up to the other end, only for Duc Hoa to hit the post.

Four minutes after the restart Diego Nunes put himself in position to level the scores for Al Rayyan, but the Brazilian pulled his shot harmlessly across the face of goal.

The Qataris were then forced to defend in numbers as Thai Son Nam sought to extend their advantage and in the end the Vietnamese side did enough to ensure their progress to the next round.


NAFT AL WASAT 4-4 BANK OF BEIRUT (3-2 PENS)

Isfahan: Mohammad Naser Safari was the hero as NAFT Al Wasat advanced to the semi-finals of the AFC Futsal Club Championship on Tuesday, defeating Bank of Beirut 3-2 in a penalty shootout after extra-time failed to separate the two teams following a 4-4 draw.
NAFT will face either defending champions Nagoya Oceans or tournament hosts Tasisat Daryaei in the semi-finals on Wednesday as they seek to become the first club from Iraq to win the continental club title.

The 24-year-old Iran international scored the winning penalty and had earlier claimed a hat-trick as NAFT fought back from a 3-1 deficit at half-time to take the lead after Rudolpho Da Costa, Ahmad Kheir El Dine and Karim Abou Zeid had put Bank of Beirut in front.

But Abou Zeid scored his second of the game four minutes from time to take the game into an extra-time period that finished without a winner, sending the clash into the penalty shootout from which NAFT eventually prevailed.

Iranian shines for Iraqis as Safari keeps NAFT in title hunt

Da Costa put the Lebanese side in front after just five minutes, the Brazilian scoring with a left foot shot that beat goalkeeper from outside the area after the ball had been worked wide.

Mustafa Bachay twice went close to levelling for NAFT in the eighth minute before the Iraqi club equalised in the 14th minute when Safari slotted home from outside the area with a right foot shot.

Bank of Beirut rallied, though, and would go into the halftime break with a two-goal lead after an impressive conclusion to the opening period.

Kheir El Dine’s shot beat goalkeeper Omar Sabti to his right in the 15th minute and, two minutes later, Abou Zeid curled his right-footed free kick into the top corner, giving Sabti no chance.

Despite trailing by two goals, NAFT came out in determined mood at the start of the second half and within a minute of the restart Amjad Kareem and Naser had both narrowly failed to reduce the deficit.

In the 25th minute, however, they claimed the goal their dominance of the half deserved.

NAFT’s Iranian duo Behzad Fereidoon and Safari linked up for the Iraqi club’s second when Fereidoon sent his corner from the left into space for Nasser to fire a perfectly-executed right foot volley into the bottom corner of the Bank of Beirut goal.

Three minutes later the scores were level when Waleed Khalid tapped the ball over the line from close range as NAFT completed their comeback.

And with eight minutes to go they finally took the lead when Safari thumped the ball home from wide on the left as NAFT hit on the break again, only for Abou Zeid’s second of the game in the 36th minute from long range to tie the scores up once again.

That took the game into extra-time, in which Da Costa saw his effort late in the first period headed off the line by Bachay while Mehdi Javid hit the post early in the second period.

Both teams converted their opening two penalties but when Sabti saved Hassan Hammoud’s spot kick, he set up Safari to deliver the win for NAFT.


MFC EMGEK 1-4 QADSIA

Isfahan: Qadsia will face Vietnam’s Thai Son Nam in the semi-finals of the 2015 AFC Futsal Club Championship after the Kuwaiti side handed Kyrgyzstan’s MFC Emgek a 4-1 defeat in their quarter-final meeting at Nagshe Jahan Stadium on Tuesday.
Rafael scored twice and there were solitary goals for Mohammad Taheri and Abdulrahman Altawail before Rustam Ermekov scored a late consolation for MFC Emgek as Fabio Cortez’s team moved into the last four for the first time in the club’s history, and their progress ensures there will be at least one debutant in the final of this year’s competition.

Cortez calls on Qadsia to make history

MFC Emgek qualified for the quarter-finals on their first appearance at the tournament, notching up a surprise 2-2 draw with defending champions Nagoya Oceans that saw them finish top of Group B but Qadsia made sure not to underestimate the club from Bishkek as they sought to bounce back from a demoralising 9-2 hammering at the hands of tournament hosts Tasisat Daryaei on Sunday.

Within 13 minutes, memories of that defeat were being banished when Rafael put the Kuwaiti side in front and three minutes later Qadsia had doubled their lead when Taheri scored with a beautifully taken right foot effort that found the top corner of Kirill Ermolov’s goal.

Seven minutes after the restart, Qadsia were further in front when Altawail rolled the ball over the line from close range.

The Kuwaitis went close to adding to the scoreline when Rafael hit the frame of the goal twice in the space of a minute but, as MFC Emgek grew increasingly desperate to score, there were plenty of opportunities for Cortez’s team to capitalise.

With MFC Emgek fielding an additional outfield player on a power play, Rafael finally added a fourth to his team’s tally in the 37th minute when he intercepted the ball before rolling it home from inside his own half.

The Kyrgyz side continued to push for a consolation goal as their participation in the tournament drew to a close, and with seconds remaining Rustam Ermekov finally struck but it was too little too late as Qadsia booked their place in the last four.


AFC FUTSAL CLUB C’SHIP QF: TASISAT DARYAEI 4-3 NAGOYA OCEANS

Isfahan: Vahid Shamsaee was at his majestic best once again as Tasisat Daryaei defeated Nagoya Oceans 4-3 in the quarter-finals of the 2015 AFC Futsal Club Championship, knocking out the defending champions to set up a semi-final meeting with NAFT Al Wasat from Iraq.
Shamsaee scored twice and set up a third for Reza Sangsefidi while Mohammad Zaraei also found the back of the net as the hosts progressed to the semi-finals after a pulsating clash with the two-time winners.

Rafael Sakai had given Nagoya the lead and Kaoru Morioka was also on target for Victor Acosta’s team, but it was not enough to deny a home side backed by a boisterous crowd inside the Nagshe Jahan Stadium. Morioka added his team’s third seconds before the final whistle.

Tasisat coach salutes superstar Shamsaee

Shamsaee fired off the first shot of the game after just 22 seconds, with the Iranian trying his luck from long range only for Nagoya goalkeeper Ruma Shinoda to comfortably collect.

By the second minute, though, the defending champions had taken the lead. The ball was played forward to Sakai and the Japan international fired off a powerful shot that beat Mostafa Nazari to his right.

Sakai was denied the opportunity to add to his team’s tally a minute later when Nazari proved equal to his effort while Tomoki Yoshikawa pulled his attempt across the face of goal in the fifth minute.

Nagoya were looking the more threatening in the opening exchanges but, in the seventh minute, Shamsaee levelled for Tasisat, the veteran bursting through the middle to pick up the ball before stroking his right-foot effort into the bottom corner.

Reza Sangsefidi then sent his attempt just wide after being set up by Shamsaee while goalkeeper Shinoda did well to deny Asghar Hassanzadeh.

Sakai’s deflected shot, meanwhile, almost found the back of the net in the 13th minute, only for the ball to loop up and just over the bar.

Tasisat took the lead for the first time just a minute after the restart when Shamsaee’s quickly taken corner was slotted home from the tightest of angles and over the line via the post, but in the 34th minute the Japanese pulled level when Morioka captialised on a mistake by Nazari to score from wide on the right.

The game looked set to go to extra-time but, with two minutes remaining, Shamsaee showed his class when he held off the defence before turning to fire a shot from outside the area low to Shinoda’s left.

With barely a minute remaining Zarei scored what turned out to be the winner with the Japanese on a power play, meaning Morioka’s late strike was not enough to deny the Iranians.






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