Salem Al Dawsari scores the late winner as Saudi Arabia finish third in Group A with 2-1 victory over Egypt at Volgograd Arena on Monday.<\/p>\n
Mohamed Salah put Egypt 1-0 ahead after collecting a good long pass from El Said and lobbing it over Saudi goalkeeper\u00a0Yasser Al-Moisalem.<\/p>\n
It was Salah\u2019s second goal of the tournament after his penalty against Russia,\u00a0however, the Liverpool star wasted many opportunities to double the lead for his side.<\/p>\n
In the 38th minute, a penalty was awarded to Saudi Arabia when\u00a0Ahmed Fathy\u00a0was found to have handballed in the penalty area.<\/p>\n
However,\u00a0Egypt’s 45-year-old goalkeeper Essam El Hadary\u00a0became his country’s hero with a spectacular effort to save Fahad Al Mulwallad\u2019s penalty kick and deny Saudi Arabia an equaliser. Hadary also broke the records of the oldest player to play in a World Cup saved a penalty.<\/p>\n
But Hadary was beaten when the Colombian referee, Wilmar Rold\u00e1n, awarded Saudi Arabia another penalty in the first-half stoppage time and Salman al-Faraj converted from the spot.<\/p>\n
In the second half, Saudi Arabia pressed for a winner but it was not until the last minute of the injury time when Salem Al-Dawsari scored with the last kick of the game to give the Saudis a thrilling 2-1 win.<\/p>\n
Al-Dawsari’s precious winner also gave Saudi Arabia first World Cup victory in 24 years.<\/p>\n
To wrap the 2018 World Cup campaign, Green Falcons finish third in Group A ahead of Egypt and behind table-toppers Uruguay, who earned a 3-0 win over host Russia on the same day.<\/p>\n
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Salem Al Dawsari scores the late winner as Saudi Arabia finish third in Group A with 2-1 victory over Egypt at Volgograd Arena on Monday. Mohamed Salah put Egypt 1-0 ahead after collecting a good long pass from El Said and lobbing it over Saudi goalkeeper\u00a0Yasser Al-Moisalem. It was Salah\u2019s second goal of the tournament after his penalty against Russia,\u00a0however, the Liverpool star wasted many opportunities to double the lead for his side. In the 38th minute, a penalty was awarded to Saudi Arabia when\u00a0Ahmed Fathy\u00a0was found to have handballed in the penalty area. However,\u00a0Egypt’s 45-year-old goalkeeper Essam El Hadary\u00a0became his country’s hero with a spectacular effort to save Fahad … Continue reading “Late winner of Salem Al Dawsari gives Saudi Arabia a victory over Egypt”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":14036,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,45],"tags":[637,1589,1588,311],"class_list":["post-14035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fifa-world-cup","category-saudi-arabia","tag-2018-world-cup","tag-egypt","tag-salem-al-dawsari","tag-saudi-arabia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=14035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}