Al-Qadisiyah beat Abha 2-1 in Saudi Pro League

Al-Qadisiyah secured an important win over visiting Abha by a score of 2-1 in the match played between them in the ninth round of the Saudi Pro League, in a meeting held at 16:15 Damascus time.

Mateo Retegui opened the scoring for Al-Qadisiyah in the 30th minute, before Mohammed Abu Al Shamat added the team's second goal in the 69th minute, and Alimami Gory narrowed the gap for Abha with a goal in the 90+5th minute of stoppage time.

Mateo Retegui won the man of the match award after scoring a goal and providing an assist during the 84 minutes he played, with a rating of 8.43.

Al-Qadisiyah dominated proceedings with a possession rate of 66 percent against 34 percent for Abha, and took 8 shots of which 4 were on target, compared to 6 attempts for Abha of which only one was on target. The expected goals value reached 1.73 for Al-Qadisiyah against 0.27 for Abha.

Al-Qadisiyah won 4 corners and committed 12 fouls, while Abha won 3 corners and committed 8 fouls, and each team recorded 3 offside instances. Al-Qadisiyah also received two yellow cards compared to one yellow card for Abha, with no red cards for either team. The match was officiated by referee Abdullah Al Kharboush.

With this win, Al-Qadisiyah rose to second place in the standings with 19 points from 8 matches, having won 6, drawn one and lost one, with a goal difference of 21 to 8. Meanwhile, Abha remained in 18th place with just 2 points from 7 matches, having drawn 2 and lost 5, scoring 5 goals and conceding 13.