 | Pakhtakor knocks out Arabi AL ARABI´S campaign in the
AFC Champions League
came to a premature end at
home after its 1-0 loss to
Pakhtakor of Uzbekistan on
Tuesday.
The Qatari team entered
the Group B fixture knowing
that a fourth straight defeat
will automatically eliminate.
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Heir Apparent Cup football |  ExxonMobil has signed as the
exclusive partner of the Heir
Apparent Cup football for the
second consecutive year. This
was declared by Qatar Stars
League at a press conference,
held on Tuesday.
Spanning more than a week,
the football tournament,
involving the top four finishing
teams of the QSL, is one of
Qatar´s most prestigious events
on the sporting calendar. The
high class of competition and
excitement, generated by the
HA Cup matches, bring people
together from all over Qatar.
The matches are held on the
knock-out basis. Fourth-placed
Al Sadd will kick-off the event
against QSL champion
Lekhwiya on April 21. The second
and third-placed Al
Rayyan. | | | Attiyah, Abdullah clinch first SSS |  QATAR´S Nasser bin Saleh al
Attiyah scorched through the first
super special stage to put his
Toyota Hilux on the top in the
Sealine Cross-Country Rally.
Spain´s Joan Barreda Bort and
Qatar´s Adel Hussein Abdullah also
led their respective bike and quad
categories after the 4.2km SSS held
near the Sealine Beach Resort,
south of Doha, on Tuesday afternoon.
Attiyah and co-driver Lucas Cruz
Senra set the fastest time by 8.7
seconds in the car category with an
Overdrive Racing Toyota Hilux and
will lead the rest of the 25-car field
into the Qatar desert on
Wednesday morning.
Saudi Arabia´s Yazeed al Rajhi
set the second fastest time with his
Mini All4 Racing and Czech ... | | | Chelsea plots Barca´s fall
in Champions League |  CHELSEA believe it can
stymie the jaw-dropping
goalscoring exploits of Lionel
Messi and pull off an unlikely
upset against Barcelona in the
Champions League semifinals
on Wednesday.
Messi took his season´s tally
to an astonishing 63 goals in
52 games at the weekend with
a double strike in Barcelona´s
win over Levante, leaving him
just four shy of Gerd Muller´s
all-time single-season
European record of 67.
Another goal at Stamford
Bridge would see the
Argentinian set a new benchmark
for goals in a single
Champions League campaign,
taking him past the record he
currently shares with Jose
Altafini, who scored 14 for AC
Milan in 1962-63.
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