Al Sadd 2–2 Esteghlal FC
Al Sadd
2–2HT 1–1
Esteghlal FC
Al Sadd played Esteghlal FC in the AFC Champions League on 17 September 2018 at Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium. The match finished 2–2.
Goals and cards
- 22'Roozbeh Cheshmi — Yellow card
- 27'Akram Afif (assist by B. Bounedjah)
- 32'R. Bagheri (assist by Humam Tariq)
- 49'M. Tabrizi (assist by F. Esmaeili)
- 50'Roozbeh Cheshmi — Yellow card
- 50'Roozbeh Cheshmi — Red card
- 80'Yasser Aboubaker Essa — Yellow card
- 86'Farshid Esmaeili — Yellow card
- 90'Mehdi Rahmati — Yellow card
- 90+2'B. Bounedjah
Line-ups
Al Sadd 4-2-3-1
- Meshaal Barsham
- Hamid Ismaeil
- Boualem Khoukhi
- Abdelkarim Hassan
- Pedro Miguel Correia
- Xavi
- Gabi
- Jung Woo-Young
- Hassan Al Heidos
- B. Bounedjah
- Akram Afif
- SUBSTITUTES
- Yasser Aboubaker Essa
- Ali Assadalla
- Salem Al Hajri
- Ahmed Sayyar
- Tarek Salman
- Jehad Mohammad Hudib
- Hamza Sanhaji
- COACHES: Jesualdo Ferreira
Esteghlal FC 4-3-3
- M. Rahmati
- P. Montazeri
- K. Heydari
- R. Cheshmi
- M. Zakipour
- Humam Tariq
- F. Esmaeili
- A. Karimi
- M. Tabrizi
- R. Bagheri
- M. Ghaedi
- SUBSTITUTES
- A. Sayyadmanesh
- A. Sohrabian
- V. Ghafouri
- A. Gero
- H. Hosseini
- R. Azari
- M. Daneshgar
- COACHES: W. Schäfer
Match statistics
| Al Sadd | Esteghlal FC | |
|---|---|---|
| 7 | Shots on goal | 4 |
| 8 | Shots off goal | 4 |
| 18 | Total shots | 10 |
| 3 | Blocked shots | 2 |
| 13 | Shots inside box | 4 |
| 5 | Shots outside box | 6 |
| 20 | Fouls | 15 |
| 5 | Corners | 9 |
| 0 | Offsides | 3 |
| 55% | Possession | 45% |
| 1 | Yellow cards | 4 |
| 0 | Red cards | 1 |
| 2 | Saves | 5 |
| 479 | Total passes | 375 |
| 418 | Accurate passes | 301 |
| 87% | Pass accuracy | 80% |