AFC Champions League Two
Firas Al Khatib’s side picked up their second Group A win in three outings to move to six points while Nasaf, despite their dominance of the match, remain rooted at the bottom with a single point.
A slow start saw only a number of noteworthy attempts in the opening 20 minutes, the first when Kuwait’s Taha Khenissi’s header from outside the six-yard box went skywards and the second from Nasaf’s Sharof Mukhitdinov, whose corner swung dangerously close to goal before hitting the side netting,
The home side’s Adenis Shala then came dashing down the middle on the half hour mark but his attempt from the left ended up flat when he shot tamely at keeper Saud Al Hoshan.
Kuwait broke the deadlock, and netted against the run of play, in the 40th minute when Daham came down the left unsighted behind Mukhitdinov, connected to Ali Dara’s pass and slipped the ball through Abduvakhid Nematov’s legs.
Khenissi and Amr Abd El Fattah Ammouri both missed opportunities in the closing minutes to extend Kuwait’s lead as they headed into the break making their only shot at goal count.
Group A: PFC Nasaf (UZB) v Kuwait SC (KUW)
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Nasaf dominated after the restart, but Kuwait came closest to a second goal in the 56th minute when Daham came down the right, cut to the centre and let fly with a scorcher that Nematov denied with a one-handed save.
Kuwait striker Oumar Gonzalez then singlehandedly blocked attempts from inside the area by Abbosjon Gulomov, Murodbek Rahmatov and Oybek Rustamov - all in the 57th minute - before Gulomov’s final strike from close range was turned away by Al Hoshan.
Yusuf Otubanjo dragged his shot to the right in the 75th minute in a one-on-one with the Kuwait keeper, who, in a second face-to-face encounter a minute later, blocked Shala’s effort from the centre and then collected yet another shot by Alibek Davronov.
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