The home side thought they had found the opener in the eighth minute when David Polanco glanced home Suiuntbek Mamyraliev’s outswinging free-kick but the effort was ruled out for offside.

Against the run of play, Al Fidaa took the lead two minutes later when Khatdb Mshlab’s free-kick took a heavy deflection off a defender and completely wrong-footed goalkeeper Kurmanbek Nurlanbekov to land in the net.

Unperturbed, Dordoi continued to dominate with Oleh Marchuk going closest when he latched onto Dmytro Semeniv’s cutback but his attempt sailed over the bar.

Mahmoud Alkhalaf ensured Al Fidaa would hold on to their lead at the break with a stunning save in the 43rd minute, diving to his left to thwart Semeniv’s curling strike from outside the box.

The game ebbed and flowed in the second half with chances coming in at both ends starting with a thunderous 35-yard strike from Dordoi’s Andrii Karvatskyi that went just wide.

Subhi Shoufan sneaked in behind Dordoi’s defence in the 63rd minute to pounce on an underhit back pass but saw his effort blocked by the towering frame of Nurlanbekov.

Dordoi were unlucky in the 73rd minute when Karvatskyi’s teasing free-kick was cleared by Abdulrahman Barakat onto his own crossbar.

Dordoi’s persistence eventually paid off in the 84th minute as Al Fidaa struggled to clear Ernaz Abilov’s cross from the left, allowing Yasin Hamed to seize the opportunity to steer the ball home from close range to send the tie into extra-time.

The additional 30 minutes yielded no goal with Al Fidaa edging the tie on penalties with Mohamad Asaad scoring the winner to send his team into the group stage.