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#ACLElite – Vote for your Top Goal of Matchday 5 presented by VISA

#ACLElite – Vote for your Top Goal of Matchday 5 presented by VISA

Kuala Lumpur: Matchday 5 of the AFC Champions League Elite 2025/26™ delivered the whole spectrum - lightning counters, postage-stamp curlers and training-ground routines finished with ruthless calm.
We've shortlisted the strikes that flipped momentum, silenced stadiums and sealed priceless points. 

Read the snapshots, replay the videos added below, and back your favourite. 
Regi Lushkja - Tractor FC (v PFC Nasaf) 
One-touch finishing at its finest. Arriving on cue, the Albanian midfielder opened his body and guided a first-time poke beyond Abduvohid Nematov. One touch was all it took, one goal was all it needed—enough to bank Tractor's third successive win.
Adil Boulbina - Al Duhail SC (v Al Ittihad Club) 
How to set up a 6-goal blockbuster? Give Adil Boulbina space and the ball, sit down, grab your popcorn and enjoy! The thunderbolt of a long-range strike from 22-year-old Boulbina went past Pedrag Rajkovic's despairing dive to his left. Spoiler alert, it was Boulbina's first in an impressive hat-trick. 
Karim Benzema - Al Ittihad Club (v Al Duhail SC) 
Class is permanent. A sharp movement across the line, a deft first touch and a high-quality right-foot finish revived hope late on. The French star showed he still owns the big-match moments, even if the comeback fell just short. 
Ousmane Camara - Sharjah FC (v Al Ahli Saudi FC)  
To slay a dragon, you walk into the cave. Released by a delicious slide-rule pass from Luanzinho, the forward outpaced two defenders and slid a nerveless finish under the onrushing keeper—ending the defending champions' unbeaten run on their own patch at King Abdullah Sports City. 
Dusan Tadic - Al Wahda FC (v Al Sadd SC) 
A golden first touch and a rasping drive across goal to cancel out Claudinho’s opener - sharp like a knife through butter. The former Ajax Amsterdam star then doubled down with a second and an assist to complete a comeback that had Al Nahyan Stadium bouncing. 
Joao Cancelo - Al Hilal SFC (v Al Shorta) 
Deep in stoppage time, the full-back burst through the lines and slotted a low finish into the far corner, putting a polished shine on a four-star home win. 
Hokuto Shimoda - FC Machida Zelvia (v Gangwon FC)  
A skipper's statement. From twenty yards, the midfielder shaped his body and bent an unstoppable curler beyond the goalkeeper's fingertips into the top right. A masterpiece that crowned a near-perfect opening half. 
Mateus Vital - Shanghai Port FC (v FC Seoul) 
Joga bonito! Cutting in from the left, the Brazilian created his space, then ripped a right-footer from a distance into the postage stamp. A reply of pure class that gave the keeper no chance and hauled Port back into the contest. 
Medin Memeti - Melbourne City FC (v Johor Darul Ta'zim) 
Ice-cold execution to settle it. A quick set and a thunderous strike that cannoned in off the underside of the bar past the keeper - clinching City's win and denying JDT's effort for a late point.  
Tetsushi Yamakawa - Vissel Kobe (v Shanghai Shenhua FC) 
A set-piece finish that was straight from the training ground. The corner was taken by Nanasei Iino, who passed to Ideguchi before his cross was flicked home by Yamakawa's backward header. Inch-perfect combo! 
Jesse Lingard - FC Seoul (v Shanghai Port FC)  
Jesse Lingard single-handedly won the match with his double and an assist to finish off Shanghai Port FC at Pudong Football Stadium. Marko Dugandzic burst down the right before feeding Choi Jun, who narrowly avoided straying offside to slip a return pass into Dugandzic and his layoff set up unmarked former England international Lingard to break the deadlock. 
Mutsuki Kato - Sanfrecce Hiroshima (v Chengdu Rongcheng FC) 
Super sub Mutsuki Kato needed only three minutes to mark his impact! The 28-year-old forward first-timed the ball home from close range past a flatfooted Tao after being laid up beautifully by Sota Nakamura. 
Cast your vote below for the Visa Top Goal of Matchday 5 in the AFC Champions League Elite™, and check back on the-AFC.com and the AFC LIVE app when we reveal the winner. 
Poll ends at 17:00 (UTC+8) on December 4

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