AFC Champions League Two
The win moves the Bahraini club onto 12 points from six games and means Ali Ashoor’s team clinch second place in the standings ahead of Iraq's Air Force SC and behind Al Taawoun FC from Saudi Arabia.
Mahdi Abduljabbar put the hosts in front in the 10th minute but it was not until the second half that Al Khaldiya opened up a convincing lead, with Bellatreche scoring with a pair of headers in the 47th and 54th minutes to seal the win. He then hit his third with a minute left.
Al Khaldiya took the lead when Dhurgham Ismael rolled an inch-perfect pass from the left across the face of goal for Abduljabbar to score as he slid in, toeing the ball home at full stretch.
Altyn Asyr goalkeeper Batyr Babayev denied Sayed Dhiya in the 27th minute and, moments later, Abduljabbar bent his right-footed attempt high and wide of goal. Abduljabbar was denied a second when the Altyn Asyr defence smuggled his weak attempt to safety.
Ismael’s penetrating run down the left again exposed the Altyn Asyr defence in the 41st minute, the Iraq international delivering the ball into the centre for Seydina Dabo to shoot, but the attempt flew wide of Babayev’s left post.
Sohbet Durdyyev’s speculative effort in additional time was the last action of the half, the midfielder’s shot comfortably gathered by home goalkeeper Ammar Mohamed in a rare sight of goal for the visitors.
Two minutes into the second half the home side doubled their lead. The Altyn Asyr defence only half cleared a free-kick by Ismael and, after the ball fell to Dabo, the Senegalese swung a first-time cross towards the six yard box from where Bellatreche headed home.
Bellatreche pounced again in the 54th minute, nodding in a perfectly flighted cross from Ismael, who had raced to the bye-line to clip in a lofted pass that his teammate happily headed home from close range.
Ismael shot wide just before the hour mark as Al Khaldiya sought a fourth and that eventually came with a minute left when substitute Igor Torres fed Bellatreche after a slaloming run that left his team mate to side-foot home.
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