Al-Gharafa 2-0 Qatar SC: Two late goals from Yacine Brahimi lift his side to nine points
Al-Gharafa 2-0 Qatar SC in Week 8 of the Qatar Stars League 2026-27: who scored and when, the cards, both line-ups and the coaches, from the league's official match sheet.
Yacine Brahimi decided a tight game at Thani Bin Jassim on Friday. The Al Gharafa captain scored in the 74th and 88th minutes to beat Qatar SC, after the first hour had produced no goals and plenty of bookings.
Qatar SC had the first real chance, early in the opening half, but Khalifa Ababacar Ndiaye leapt to take the ball at his top left corner. Ismael Bennacer was booked for Al Gharafa in the 11th minute and Fabricio Diaz followed in the 30th. Eisa Ahmad Khaldi was shown a yellow card for Qatar SC in the third minute of first-half stoppage time, and the sides went in at 0-0. Seydou Sano was cautioned in the 67th minute. Brahimi then broke the deadlock with a long-range shot from outside the box. His second came in the 88th minute, when he got into the area, dribbled past Nasir Peer Baksh and beat the goalkeeper.
It was only Al Gharafa's second league win of the season, and it takes them to nine points. Qatar SC have now lost four times and stay on six, so Rashid Hassan Al-Kubaisi's side have three points fewer than Friday's opponents.
Facts from the league's own match report and its official match sheet.
Goals and cards
- 11'Yellow card Ismael Bennacer, Al-Gharafa
- 30'Yellow card Fabricio Diaz, Al-Gharafa
- 45+3'Yellow card Eisa Ahmad Khaldi, Qatar SC
- 67'Yellow card Seydou Sano, Al-Gharafa
- 74'Goal Yacine Brahimi, Al-Gharafa1-0
- 88'Goal Yacine Brahimi, Al-Gharafa2-0
Who played
Al-Gharafa
- 1Khalifa Ababacar Ndiaye GK
- 4Seydou Sano
- 6Dami Terawari
- 7Florinel Coman
- 8Yacine Brahimi CP
- 10Ismael Bennacer
- 13Ferjani Sassi
- 18AYOUB MOHAMED ALOUI
- 23Saifeldeen Fadlalla
- 29Fabricio Diaz
- 96Adam Mohamed Ounas
Bench: Ahmed Basher Ali, Mahmood Gamal Mohamed, Frank Mario Magri, Amro Abdelfatah Surag, Jamil Riad Friakh, Yousef Saaed Amer, Hyunsoo Jang, Abdirashid Saeed Hassan, Rayyan Ahmed Al-Ali, Rayyan Hani Faragalla u20, ِِAmjed Nasar Mohamed.
Qatar SC
- 17Ali Nader Mahmoud GK
- 2Nasir Peer Baksh
- 4ِAli Saoudi
- 6Pau Prim
- 7Faiz Selemani
- 9Joao Dos Santos CP
- 11Yohan Boli
- 14Said Mohamed Brahmi
- 20Eisa Ahmad Khaldi
- 24Niall Mason
- 40Fallou Diouf
Bench: Adnan Ali Saleh, Sataa Abdulnaser Al-Abbasi, Ibrahim Abdelhalim Masoud, Khalid Abdulwahed Al-Obaidly, Mohamed Amine Mushrinn, Abdulrasheed Umaru Ibrahiim, Albert Luque, Akwasi Addai, Yasen Abdallah Lafrid, Anas Nagy Hanfy, Abu elgasim Ayman Mohamed, Attaa Mohamed Jaber.
Head coach: Rashid Hassan Al-Kubaisi.
Minutes, cards and line-ups are read from the league's official match sheet for this game. The rest of the round is in the Week 8 report, and every round is listed under news.