Tomorrow, Tuesday, at Al-Ittihad Hall four matches will be played at the end of the quarter-final round. In the first, the Egyptian Al-Ahly, the defending champion meets the Syrian Al-Ahly of Aleppo, at one o’clock in the afternoon, Kuwait time, followed by the Lebanese Al-Riyadi club and Al-Ahly Benghazi, the Libyan, then the Lebanese Beirut and Al-Sadd Al-Qatari at five in the evening, and finally the Kuwaiti Al-Jahra and Al-Bashaer Al-Omani At seven in the evening
In the strongest matches of the tournament
Degla Iraqi achieved a heavy-caliber surprise in the strongest matches of the tournament so far, when it snatched the victory in the last second of extra time through its star Robinson, the scorer of the match, with a score of 98/96, after the original time ended in a draw 87/87, to prevent Al-Ahly of Bahrain a victory that was within reach. He scored a deadly three point shot with the final whistle in normal time and repeated the same scene in extra time by scoring the winning basket with the final whistle to advance his team to the quarter-finals to face Kuwait in this round.
The Iraqi team gave a lesson for free on how to deal with the game of the last seconds. It did not give up when it fell behind in the third quarter by 15 points (70/55) and imposed its distinctive style in defense and attack together, and succeeded in ending the fourth quarter in its favor 32/17 and imposed a tie on the Bahraini team in normal time. Then the victory in the overtime, which witnessed more than a tie between the two parties. Al-Ahly of Bahrain had advanced in the first quarter 19/14, in the second 27/20 and in the third 21/17, and fell in the last quarter by a difference of 14 points that was enough to dispel his dreams after he was a candidate to reach the quarter-finals. Robinson, Degla’s professional, scored the highest score 38 points.
Kuwait wins over Al-Minaa and meets the Degla
Kuwait did not find any difficulty in defeating Al-Minaa Al-Yemeni by 49 points (104/55) to meet with Iraqi Degla in the quarter final. The score in the periods was as follow: 26/7 – 20/16 – 30/16 – 16/28. The professional of Kuwait Loudy registered the highest score is 21 points.
