{"id":66932,"date":"2022-05-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kuwaitnewsgazette.com\/?guid=4957dbe17dbe6d944c0a4d3d1a8c901f"},"modified":"2022-05-21T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-21T00:00:00","slug":"wins-for-two-kuwaiti-sides-at-afc-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kuwaitnewsgazette.com\/wins-for-two-kuwaiti-sides-at-afc-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Wins for two Kuwaiti sides at AFC Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Kuwaiti sides Al-Arabi and Kuwait SC both edged home victories in football&#8217;s AFC Cup on Saturday as they climbed to the top of their respective groups undefeated across two matches.<\/p>\n<p>Senegalese forward Ablaye Mbengue struck in the 34th minute to earn Al-Arabi their second victory on-the-trot over Shabab Al-Khalil of Palestine, 1-0. The result comes on the back of a 3-2 win away to Bahraini side, Al-Riffa.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, goals from former Tunisia international forward, Taha Yassine Khenissi, and Kuwaiti international defender Fahad Al-Rashidi handed Kuwait SC a valuable three points over their closest second-placed group rivals Oman&#8217;s Al-Seeb.<\/p>\n<p>All-time winners of the Asian second tier club competition with three titles, Kuwait SC, top Group A with four points, after an earlier draw, with Al-Seeb trailing with three points.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Arabi, for the time being, comfortably top Group B with a three point margin over Al-Riffa<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Source: Kuwait News Agency<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kuwaiti sides Al-Arabi and Kuwait SC both edged home victories in football&#8217;s AFC Cup on Saturday as they climbed to the top of their respective groups undefeated across two matches.Senegalese forward Ablaye Mbengue struck in the 34th minute to earn Al-&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - 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