The unusual goal against Karim Benzema saved and gave Marcelo Gallardo qualification to the Asian Champions

It was a crazy game and the gesture of Marcelo Gallardo At its peak, it perfectly recreates what it had to endure. The Doll stood with her arms crossed, shook her head, and bit the bottom lip of her mouth.because of the unbelief of need an unusual goal against to be able to free himself, in agony, Navbahor of Uzbekistan and qualify for the quarter-finals of the Asian Champions, the main goal of his first season Al Ittihad From Saudi Arabia.

87 minutes had passed since the start of the rematch of the series, which began on Wednesday with a 0-0 away draw and on the wrong foot, because the same attacker Karim Benzema converted his own goal the first goal of the Uzbek team, which complicated the situation for Gallardo, after weeks of back and forth against the Frenchman.

Benzema tried to clear a cross, but ended up sending the ball into his own net and giving Navbahor the lead.

Benzema’s unfortunate action put a team that was about to be eliminated from the tournament in difficulty, but before the end of the first half, in the sixth minute of injury time, the former Real Madrid player redeemed himself with a header inside the goal area which allowed him to push alone into the area. far post to the marker Abderrazak Hamdallah.

But the most unusual thing of the evening in Jeddah came towards the end: a corner for Gallardo’s team led to a bad cross at the near post, but the Georgian striker Tabatadze wanted to clear it and nailed his goalkeeper at the far post , who had been the figure up to that point.

Gallardo celebrated reluctantly, but was hugged by some substitutes who jumped on him during the celebration. He has surpassed Al Ittihad and is probably waiting for the Arab duel Al Hilalwhich is the dominator of the current championship led by Jorge Jesús and with Neymar in the last phase of recovery from his knee injury.

In the same case there is Cristiano Ronaldo’s Al Nassrwho with his goal survived the rematch of the round of 16 and will face Al Ain starting next Monday, March 4th.