Former Barcelona captain Xavi bagged his first goal at the AFC Champions League Group C match on Tuesday evening as his Qatari side Al Sadd beat\u00a0FC Nasaf 4-0.<\/p>\n
Xavi had to be excluded from the Al Sadd\u00a0squad in the upset 2-1 loss against Umm Salal last week due to a back injury.<\/p>\n
In this match,\u00a0the Spanish midfielder fired home from inside the area to open the scoring after three minutes.<\/p>\n
After Xavi\u00a0set the stage for Al Sadd\u2019s complete domination of the Uzbeks,\u00a0Abdelkarim Hassan double the lead for his side in the 16th minute by surging solo run from the halfway line.<\/p>\n
Al Sadd added a third\u00a0before the break, before\u00a0Hassan Al-Haidos, who had replaced Xavi on the hour mark, sealed the 4-0 win for the hosts.<\/p>\n
The victory\u00a0sends Al Sadd to the top of Group C with nine points from four games, courtesy of a superior head-to-head record over Iran giants Persepolis<\/a>. The Iranians\u00a0edged Al Wasl 1-0 in the other match on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Former Barcelona captain Xavi bagged his first goal at the AFC Champions League Group C match on Tuesday evening as his Qatari side Al Sadd beat\u00a0FC Nasaf 4-0. Xavi had to be excluded from the Al Sadd\u00a0squad in the upset 2-1 loss against Umm Salal last week due to a back injury. In this match,\u00a0the Spanish midfielder fired home from inside the area to open the scoring after three minutes. After Xavi\u00a0set the stage for Al Sadd\u2019s complete domination of the Uzbeks,\u00a0Abdelkarim Hassan double the lead for his side in the 16th minute by surging solo run from the halfway line. Al Sadd added a third\u00a0before the break, before\u00a0Hassan Al-Haidos, … Continue reading “Spanish legend Xavi earns his first AFC Champions League goal”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":11599,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,44],"tags":[1035,134,80,133],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11598"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}