It is 39 years old and it has not hid that soon it will happen to the benches, but Xavi Hernández does not tire to win on the lawn. The ex of the FC Barcelona conquered does some weeks the League of Qatar with the To the-Sadd, but is not the only title to the that aspires one of the best Spanish footballers of the history before it arrive the moment to hang the boots.
After doing the duties in the championship of the regularity, the group of the emirate has put like aim the Champions Asian, the international competition by which litigate the best clubs of the continent. It does hardly some months the pupilos of Jesualdo Ferreira remained to a step of the final, but the Persépolis Iranian took down them in the penultimate round with an advantage of hardly a so much.
The tournament had not begun too much well for the team of the egarense, that has reacted and has improved his perspectives of face to the eliminatory phase. For the moment it is playing the phase of groups, and after starting with defeat, a triumph, a tie and a victory in which the midfield player was key piece have situated him in a place of privilege to fault of so alone two days.
In the stadium Jassim Bin Hamad, the To the-Sadd played it to him against the Pakhtakor, and attained to surpass it by the minimum with goal and assistance of Xavi. They began with hope the venues because the Catalan opened the marker with a good launching of fault, although the visitors balanced the scales to the half hour of game with a target of Egor Krimets.
After a first time in which the uzbekos looked with more decision to goal, the ones of house accelerated in the resumption, and fruit of his efforts arrived a so much late that it can cost his weight in gold. Another of the local figures, the goleador Baghdad Bounedjah, finished a centre of the player of Terrassa to go up the 2-1 to the electronic, a result that materialised in the minute 87 and that finally was definite.
The To the-Sadd approaches to the eliminatory of Champions
The tarpaulin of the To the-Sadd allows him situate like leader of the Group D of the Champions Asian, with seven points in four parties and by in front of To the Ahli (six), Pakhtakor (five) and Persépolis (four). To put in eighth of final, the champion qatarí will have to keep his income and tie up one of the two first squares after the commitments in front of the classified second, home, and the chamber, to domicile.