Al-Raed beat Al-Jil 3:0 in the First Division League's regular season fourth round on Tuesday. The hosts had the game won inside twenty minutes of the second half, with K. Narey's penalty and H. Al Shammari's strike before the break setting up a comfortable evening. By then Al-Jil were already on the back foot, and they never really recovered from it.
Narey made it 1:0 from the spot in the thirty-seventh minute after Al Saleh picked up a yellow card just before. Al Shammari doubled the lead on the stroke of half-time, and Narey added a third in the forty-seventh. Al-Raed had the game won inside twenty minutes of the second half, and the rest was management.
Substitutions came thick and fast after the interval. Al-Jil brought on O. Al Johar and O. Hamzaoui at the restart, while Al-Raed responded with M. Al Fuhaid. Further changes included F. Al Dossari for Al-Jil in the sixty-fifth minute, and Y. Daribi coming on for the hosts in the seventy-ninth.
Al-Raed dominated possession at sixty to forty, and the statistics told the story. They registered six shots on target to Al-Jil's one, with an accuracy rate of fifty-five per cent compared to fourteen. The visitors managed no corners throughout the match.
The result moves Al-Raed to three points from three games, still fourteen in the table. Al-Jil remain bottom with only a single point from their opening three fixtures, having lost two and drawn one. Neither side had much to celebrate beyond this match, but the gap between them is widening.