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The UAE fans had to wait patiently for the injury time to see their players find the target when Ahmed Khalil fired home a last minute winner to power UAE to a closely contested 1-0 victory over Malaysia.
The UAE, who raised their tally to six points, will accompany Uzbekistan to the Doha 2011 AFC Asian Cup finals.
After a slow start, the Malaya Tigers began to show their best soccer. Packed with few of their enthusiastic fans, the well-built East Asians managed to make their presence felt. Norshahrul produced high speed on the flanks and spearhead Mohamad Zaquan posed a real threat to the UAE keeper Majed Nasser, thanks to the helpful assistance of Safiq bin Rahim from the centre. Mohammed Muslim and Kunanlan operated well from the midfield.
The situation put pressure on UAE strikers Mohammed Al Shehhi and Ismail Matar and they faced were closely marked by the coherent Malaysian defenders.
However, Malaysia’s centreback and the only experienced player in the squad suffered foot injury and was replaced by Amar bin Rohdan few minutes before the break.
The UAE coach Srecko Katanev was also forced to pull out injured left winger Yousuf Jaber and send in Faris Jumaa in the 23rd minute of the first half.
At the beginning of the second half, Katanec substituted midfielder Haider Alo Ali with Ahmed Khalil to redeploy the squad into more aggressive tactics. Mohammed Al Shehhi took the position of clear spearheads while Matar played deep behind the two.
Towards the 71st minute, Katanec made his second substitution by pulling out midfielder Amir Mubarak and sent in Saleh Al Manhali to underline the Slovenian aggressive intentions.
Teams: UAE: 1 - Majed Nasser (GK), 25 - Mohammed Qassim, 32- Hamdan Al Kamali, 8- Haider Alo Ali, 36- Yousuf Jaber, 21- Ali Al Weihibi, 5- Abdul Salam Jumaa, 27- Amer Mubarak, 34- Mahmoud Khamis, 29- Mohammed Al Shehhi, 10- Ismail Matar.
Substitutions: 30- Ali Khusaif (GK), 28- Faris Jumaa, 24- Ahmed Khalil, 31- Waleed Abbas, 46- Suroor Salem , 43- Sultan Al Menhali, 18- Abdullah Malullah.
Coach: Srecko Katanec (Slovenia)
Malaysia: 5- Norhafez Zamani ( c), 7- Mohamad Aidil, 8- Mohamad Zaquan, 11- Mohamad Zami, 15- Kunanlan Subramaniam, 16- Morshahrul Idlan, 24- Mohamad Muslim, 32- Mohd Farizal (GK), 33- Mohd Nasriq, 34- Safiq bin Rahim, 35- Ahmad Fakri.
Substitutions: 4- Mohd Asraruddin, 12- Amar bin Rohdan, 22- Mahalli bin Jasuli, 26- Baddrol bin Bakhtiar, 27- Mohd Amirulhadi, 29- Gurusamy Govandar, 36- Mohd Sharbinee.
Khaleej Times
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