Al Arabi scored a convincing 3-0 win over Al Shamal at the Thani Bin Jassim Stadium of Al Gharafa club on Saturday to book their place in the semifinals of 2024-2025 season QSL Cup.

Isaac Lihadji (54th minute), Yousef Msakni (56th minute) and Ghanem Faisal Al Sulaiti (73rd minute) were the goal scorers for The Dream Team who took a while to fire against a hopeful Al Shamal side which paid the price for missing out on chances of gaining early lead.

Al Shamal had succeeded in foiling Al Arabi’s attempts in the opening half, but they missed out on two good chances of their own.

In the 36th minute, Younes El Hannach after beating defenders provided a superb pass but Suhaib Gannan, who was in great position, missed being late in making the kick.

In the 52nd minute, Al Shamal’s Mohammed Musa made a dipping header, but it went just wide right of the post after an indirect corner kick.

Two minutes later, Al Arabi’s Lihadji seized the chance to produce a solid left-foot strike that went just over the stretched hands of Al Shamal goalkeeper Oumar Barry for a spectacular goal.

With the lead gained, Al Arabi continued to attack and Msakni made the most of a through ball, sent by Rodriguez Sanchez from the right, to make the score 2-0.

Al Arabi’s third goal came after some exciting action in the rival ‘D’. Msakni battled on the goal-line to keep the ball in play before Ahmed Alaaeldin made a flying header, but the ball hit the post and came back for Al Sulaiti to slam it back in.

Al Arabi became the third team after Al Duhail and Al Wakrah to make it to the last-four grade.