Al-Wahda and Damak played out a 2-2 draw in the First Division's regular season third round on Tuesday. The result keeps both sides level on two points after two games, though neither has tasted victory yet. By then the pattern was clear enough — neither side could quite close the game out.
Al-Qahtani gave the hosts an early foothold with a twenty-sixth minute strike. It was the kind of opener that makes you think the home side might hold every card, but Damak refused to camp away from the action. The visitors pressed forward and eventually found their response.
And here's the thing about the second half — the momentum shifted without either team holding the tie in their own hands for long. Al-Harbi equalised in the sixty-fifth minute before Rabei turned the match on its head six minutes later. Al-Wahda looked set to take all three points, but Damak had not given up.
Olayinka rescued a point for the visitors with a ninety-fifth minute goal, a moment that felt inevitable once you saw how both sides had been pressing. The substitutions came thick and fast — Sunbul and Al Rashidi went off together in the sixty-ninth, while Al-Wahda brought on Al Taleb, Al Maqadi and Al Qahtani as the game stretched.
The statistics tell a story of two teams sharing possession evenly at fifty per cent each, but the shots on target paint a slightly different picture. Al-Wahda found the target six times to Damak's three, yet the visitors made ninety-one attacks to the hosts' seventy-seven. It is the sort of match where chances went begging and the result came down to moments.
Both clubs remain in the lower half of the table with two draws from two games. The points gap between them is negligible, though the psychological weight of dropping another point after taking the lead will sit heavier on Al-Wahda's shoulders.
