{"id":54696,"date":"2026-04-05T18:39:59","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T01:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=54696"},"modified":"2026-04-05T18:39:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T01:39:59","slug":"qsl-ebrahimi-scores-to-help-al-shamal-close-gap-on-league-leaders-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2026\/04\/05\/qsl-ebrahimi-scores-to-help-al-shamal-close-gap-on-league-leaders-video\/","title":{"rendered":"QSL: Ebrahimi scores to help Al Shamal close gap on league leaders [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gulf-times.com &#8211; AL KHOR, <strong>Al Shamal boos\u00adted their chances of win\u00adning the Qatar Stars League title for the first time in their his\u00adtory with a thrill\u00ading 3-2 vic\u00adtory over Umm Salal at Al Bayt Sta\u00addium yes\u00adter\u00adday, while lead\u00aders Al Sadd were held to a 1-1 draw by Al Rayyan in the \u2018Qatar Clasico.\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Al Shamal raised their points tally to 37, strength\u00aden\u00ading their hold on second place and nar\u00adrow\u00ading the gap with Sadd to just two points after the lead\u00aders dropped points earlier in the even\u00ading. Shamal also have a post\u00adponed match from Round 17 against<\/p>\n<p>Qatar SC sched\u00aduled at Al Khor Sta\u00addium on April 13. Vic\u00adtory in that fix\u00adture would see them move to the top of the stand\u00adings before cru\u00adcial clashes against Al Shahan\u00adiya in Round 21 and Al Sadd in the final round of the sea\u00adson.<\/p>\n<p>In con\u00adtrast, Umm Salal remained stuck in the releg\u00ada\u00adtion zone, with their tally unchanged at 20 points in 10th place in the pro\u00advi\u00adsional stand\u00adings, just three points ahead of bot\u00adtom side Al Shahan\u00adiya.<\/p>\n<p>Al Shamal made a fly\u00ading start as Omid Ebrahimi con\u00adver\u00adted a pen\u00adalty in the sixth minute after Omar Mohamed was fouled inside the area. Bagh\u00addad Bouned\u00adjah doubled the lead deep into first-half added time, giv\u00ading Al Shamal a com\u00adfort\u00adable cush\u00adion head\u00ading into the break.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Col\u00adlado exten\u00added the advant\u00adage in the 59th minute, his deflec\u00adted effort beat\u00ading goal\u00adkeeper Rami Hamada fol\u00adlow\u00ading a pre\u00adcise pass from Bouned\u00adjah.<\/p>\n<p>Umm Salal moun\u00adted a late comeback when Ant\u00ado\u00adnio Mance struck from long range in the 75th minute before Yamaan Jar\u00adrar added another eight minutes later, but Al Shamal held firm to secure a vital vic\u00adtory in the title race.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u062f\u0648\u0631\u064a \u0646\u062c\u0648\u0645 \u0628\u0646\u0643 \u0627\u0644\u062f\u0648\u062d\u0629 | \u0627\u0644\u0623\u0633\u0628\u0648\u0639 \u0627\u0644\u0639\u0634\u0631\u0648\u0646 | \u0627\u0644\u0634\u0645\u0627\u0644 3 - 2 \u0623\u0645 \u0635\u0644\u0627\u0644\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/avKoM8CDKlU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gulf-times.com &#8211; AL KHOR, Al Shamal boos\u00adted their chances of win\u00adning the Qatar Stars League&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":54697,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,212,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-iranian-legionnaires","category-c22-players-spotlight"],"views":543,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54698,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54696\/revisions\/54698"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}