Umm Salal overcame Al Sailiya challenge by beating them 1-0 in Week 4 of the 2022-2023 season QNB Stars League at the Al Janoub Stadium on Wednesday.

Portuguese Joao Teixeira scored the winning goal in the 42nd minute.

Umm Salal raised their score to four points following their first victory, while Al Sailiya remained on three points with their third loss and one victory.

The match was evenly fought and there were few chances on both sides, with the exception of a dangerous chance for Umm Salal, which was blocked by the post.

The first half witnessed only a few chances, the most dangerous of which was in the eighth minute. Umm Salal’s Abdullah Khafifi, returning from suspension, hit a powerful shot that hit the post and bounced back into the field.

At the end of first half, the level increased and Umm Salal managed to score off a counter-attack, with Teixeira finding the target.

Umm Salal almost scored the second goal from a penalty kick two minutes later  had it not been for the intervention of VAR and cancelled the kick.

In the second half, Al Sailiya dominated the game and forced Umm Salal to fall back and rely only on counter-attacks, which posed some danger to the goal due to the speed of the trio of Jonathan Kodjia, Sardor Rashidov and Teixeira.

Despite all that, Al Sailiya missed chances. They came closest in the 63rd minute, but for the alertness of the Umm Salal goalkeeper who thwarted Sergio Strandberg.

Al Sailiya’s last chance to equalize came two minutes into stoppage time when Bilal Saeedani hit his shot wide.