Al Wahda prevail over Al Ittihad - Majidi and Kazemian Scored

Gulf News - Al Wahda clinched the top place in the First division football league after they defeated Al Ittihad at the latter's stadium in Kalba 3-1.

Al Wahda have now 30 points and are on top of the table. This is a great achievement for the Abu Dhabi based club who had a poor start at the beginning of the league last October.

Ismail Mattar scored the first goal for Al Wahda while the new professional Felix of Ghana scored the second.

Felix played his first match with Wahda after he was signed in the place of Qattari striker Mohammed Ennazy. Ennazy showed poor form in the current season despite the fact that he was the league's top goalscorer in the last two seasons.

Al Wahda second professional Colombian Castello hit the third goal, while Ibrahim Mohammed scored a consolation for the home team in the last minutes.

In the second match held at Rashid stadium in Dubai, Al Wasl snatched a valuable win from Rashid stadium when they defeated Al Ahli 3-2 and halted the home team from advancing to catch up with the top places.

Iranian Farhad Majidi was the Al Wasl hero yesterday. He scored the second and third goals in the 47th and injury time of the match with defender Ismail Rashid who opened the score for Al Wasl in the 14th minute.

Iranian Jawad Qazimyan and Faisal Khalil scored for Ahli in the 18th and 58th minute. Al Wasl are in a safe place now away from the relegation zone with 18 points and Al Ahli stay in the fourth place with 25 points.

Al Nasr failed to score their first win in the second round after they were held to a 1-1 draw by Sharjah at the Al Maktoum stadium.

Al Nasr topped the first round in style with 22 points. However they drew in two matches and lost two and are now in the fifth place with 24 points. They are six points adrift of leaders Al Wahda and their hopes to win the league title have become slim.

Al Nasr played the last three minutes with ten players after the referee showed red card to midfielder Salah Abbas in the 87th minute for his second bookable offence.

Al Nasr lost two scoring chances in the first session. Nabil Rabee's right–footer was saved by Sharjah custodian Muhssin Mussabah and Walid benefited from the bounced ball. He passed to Maher Kanzari who crossed to Semba in front of Sharjah goal, but was cleared by Sharjah defenders in the 20th minute.

The second came in the 34th minute when Muhssin saved Mohammed Khamis cracker from 35 meters. Brazilian Anderson De Kar in his debut scored for Sharjah against the run of play in 38th minute with a powerful shot from the edge of the  box. Al Nasr attacked through Semba and Walid Murad with good support from Kanzari and Salah Abbas.

Walid scored the equaliser for Al Nasr in the 74th minute when Mohammed Ibrahim floated a high corner kick which went to Walid near the far post. He fired a left footer from close range inside a narrow angle.

In the last minute Semba lost a good chance to score the winner for Al Nasr when he headed Walid's cross far from target with the goal wide open infront of him.

In the fourth match, Dubai club held Al Shaab to a 1-1 draw at Al Aweer stadium. Bubilal and Khalid Zaid scored for the home team and Abdul Rahim Choclate and Nabil Ibrahim levelled for Al Shaab.

Dubai club advanced to the ninth place with 15 points while Al Shaab dropped to the third place with 29 points.