Moroccan striker Youssef El-Arabi was Man of the Match for Qatar’s Lekhwiya as he scored twice to help the team to a 3-0 victory over Al Jazira of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to kick off their AFC Champions League campaign in Group B.<\/p>\n
The in-form attacker has scored an incredible 21 goals in just 16 league matches for Lekhwiya.<\/p>\n
The 3-0 victory is expected to help Lekhwiya to gain momentum in the continental competition, where they will visit Saudi Arabia’s Al-Fateh for the upcoming match.<\/p>\n
Al-Fateh has suffered a 1-0 defeat at the hand of Esteghlal Khuzestan on Monday.<\/p>\n
In the group A, 2015 AFC Champions League runners-up Al Ahli recorded a 2-1 victory over Iranians Esteghlal thanks to a brace from Makhete Diop, while Al Taawoun of Saudi Arabia had a dream start to their maiden appearance in the competition with a 1-0 win against Lokomotiv Tashkent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Moroccan striker Youssef El-Arabi was Man of the Match for Qatar’s Lekhwiya as he scored twice to help the team to a 3-0 victory over Al Jazira of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to kick off their AFC Champions League campaign in Group B. The in-form attacker has scored an incredible 21 goals in just 16 league matches for Lekhwiya. The 3-0 victory is expected to help Lekhwiya to gain momentum in the continental competition, where they will visit Saudi Arabia’s Al-Fateh for the upcoming match. Al-Fateh has suffered a 1-0 defeat at the hand of Esteghlal Khuzestan on Monday. In the group A, 2015 AFC Champions League runners-up Al … Continue reading “El-Arabi’s brace helps Lekhwiya to a dream start in AFC Champions League”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":1392,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,25,44,27],"tags":[130,230,85,80,311,185],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391"}],"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=1391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}