Al Shahania outpaced Al Wakrah 1-0 in a highly-entertaining concluding match of Week 14 of the 2024-2025 season Ooredoo Stars League at the Stadium 974 on Friday.

The winning strike for Al Shahania came through Alhassan Koroma in 45+1 minute and who struck after being provided with a beautiful cross by Under-21 player Moaz Tawhed Elwadia.

While Al Wakrah tried hard to match up to the rivals and made frantic efforts towards the end, they could not find the equalizer.

The win saw Al Shahania gain the three valuable points to be on 17 points, while Al Wakrah stayed on 17 points.

The match began on a fast note and in the 10th minute, Al Shahania thought that they had gained lead when a Koroma through ball had Lotfi Madjer sprinting down the left to strike into the far corner of the net. The joy was however short lived as the flag was up signaling off-side.

In the 16th minute, Al Wakrah almost made the breakthrough as Almahdi Ali leapt to head a corner kick, but the ball just missed the left post.

The exchanges continued at both ends for long before Al Shahania forced their way with Elwadia weaving his way past three Al Wakrah defenders from the right, just outside the box, to set up an unmarked Koroma with a superb parallel cross. Koroma ran in and connected with his left foot and shot into the right corner.

Soon after resumption of play in the second half, Elwadia again made a dash from the right and sent the ball across for Majder, who connected but the ball went wide off the right post.

Just on the hour mark, an Al Wakrah free-kick taken by Abdelkarim Hassan saw Al Shahania survive a scare as Andreas van Beek headed the ball just over his own goal.

Minutes later, Hassan was back in the act and this time from a set piece. The burly player broke past Al Shahania wall but his rasping shot was brilliantly blocked by goalkeeper Shehab Mamdouh Ellethy, who dived to his right. There was another chance on the rebound but Hamdy Fathy overshot.

Towards the end, Al Wakrah put a lot of pressure on their rivals launching repeated and quick attacks, with Ellethy having to do more work under the bar.

In the first minute of added time, Al Shahania hit back winning the ball from Al Wakrah and Pelle van Amersfoort beat Hassan inside the box to score. The wild celebrations of the players and the fans alike were soon muted as the referee ruled out the goal after VAR.