Al-Hilal Women host Al-Ittihad in the Premier League on Thursday, and the visitors leave with three points. The final score reads 1:3 to Al-Ittihad after a match that flipped direction in the second half.
Al-Hilal struck first through M. Al Bandari in the thirty-first minute, and for a while it looked as though the hosts had the measure of their visitors. To be fair, they started the game with the sort of confidence that comes from a convincing win, but confidence is not the same as control.
Al-Ittihad found their footing after the break. L. Boussaha equalised in the fifty-eighth minute, and by then the visitors had worked out where to press. Chamorro Gomez added a second just three minutes later, and the momentum shifted for good.
Boussaha sealed the result in the eighty-fourth minute with her second of the evening. She never got going to start with, but when she did, she made sure the match was settled. The away end never stopped after that goal.
And here's the thing — the table tells you what matters. Al-Ittihad sit third with twenty-six points from fourteen games, while Al-Hilal remain fifth on twenty-three. The gap between them has narrowed, but the visitors have now extended their unbeaten run.
