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Vincent Aboubakar Strikes to fire Al Nassr into Asian Champions League quarter-finals

September 17, 2021

By Boris Esono Nwenfor

Vincent Aboubakar scores his first goal for Al Nassr

Indomitable Lions striker Vincent Aboubakar scored the lone goal for his side Al Nassr to send the team into the quarter-finals of the Asian Champions League.

It took just 12mins for Vincent Aboubakar to find the net as his team defeated the Islamic Republic of Iran's Tractors Sports Club 1-0 at the Khalifa International Stadium with Aboubakar also picking up the man of the match award.

The Cameroonian played the entire minutes of the game in a dominant showing of their might against Tractors.

Vincent Aboubakar missed the first big chance of the game at the 10 minute mark, when Uzbek winger Jaloliddin Masharipov went down on the left flank, with teammate Abdulfattah Asiri picking the loose ball up and playing the Cameroonian forward in, only for him to spurn his chance from inside the area.

Aboubakar will make amends a few minutes later and opened the scoring for the Riyadh-based side as well as scoring his first goal in Asian football with a beautifully constructed counter-attacks, which was concluded by a threaded pass from Anderson Talisca to the former FC Porto player who expertly chipped the keeper from close range to make it 1-0.

It has been an outstanding few weeks for Aboubakar who was with his national side for the FIFA 2022 World Cup qualifiers. Aboubakar scored one of the two goals as Cameroon defeated Malawi 2-0 in the first qualifiers. Unfortunately, the spark that he showed in the game against Malawi was not there as Ivory Coast dispatched Cameroon 2-1.

The Saudi Pro League side joins fellow Riyadh side Al Hilal SFC, Islamic Republic of Iran's Persepolis FC and Al Wahda FSC in the West zone's quarter-finals with the draw to be held on Friday.

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