Spanish international Santi Cazorla closed a new victory for Xavi Hernández's Al Sadd with a penalty, anticipated champion of the Qatari Soccer League, over Al-Gharafa (0-2).
Cazorla put, at 65 minutes, the brooch to the seventeenth win in twenty games of his team, opened at a quarter of an hour by South Korean Nam Tae-Hee after an assist from the former Villarreal. It is the twelfth goal of the Asturian.
The team led by the Balkan Slavisa Jokvanovic, former player of teams such as Oviedo, Tenerife, Deportivo and Ciudad de Murcia, and former coach of Hercules, Watford, Maccabi Tel Aviv and Fulham, conceded their third defeat that takes them away from continental competitions.