Abu Dhabi // Baniyas made it two-for-two after a 1-0 result over Al Wahda to claim a share of the top spot on the Group A leaderboard in the League Cup.
Mohammed Bargash scored the only goal in a scrappy game on Thursday night at the Al Nahyan Stadium in the capital.
Bargash exchanged passes with Luis Farina down the right flank, then ran inside the box before hammering home a low shot, taking the lead heading into half-time. It was not pretty, but it was enough.
“The game didn’t rise to a good level, but we can return with the satisfaction of winning the three points,” said Jorge Da Silva, the Baniyas coach.
“Still, we were the better team on the night because we created more scoring opportunities.
“Had we scored one more from those chances, our victory would have been more impressive.”
Sharjah and Baniyas each have six points, but the latter trail on goal difference.
“In the cup games, we try to provide some of the fringe players the opportunities, and sometimes they come out a bit short from the expectations,” Da Silva said.
“I am happy with the defence. They were solid and didn’t leak out any goals against a team like Wahda.
“We will try to play the best available team because we are trying to create a team for different competitions. That’s why we want to play all the foreigners, because they need more games.”
Sebastian Tagliabue had a golden opportunity to put Wahda in front. The Argentine forward was set up beautifully inside the box by compatriot Damian Diaz, but a weak effort from eight yards was smothered by Mohsin Al Hashmi, the Baniyas goalkeeper.
“We had many chances to score in the first half, but couldn’t score” said Karel Jarolim, the Wahda coach.
Jarolim used up all three Wahda substitutions in the last quarter, of the match – including Tagliabue – yet nothing improved from his side.
Fahad Danhani, the Wahda keeper, made two excellent saves at the other end to keep his team in the game.
He blocked a close-range effort from Luis Farina and recovered to block a looping shot from Carlos Munoz from the ensuing run of play. “We were trying out some new players and we can take the experiment as the positives from this game,” said Hussain Fadel, the Kuwaiti international centre-back.
“All is not lost for us, anyway. We have three points from three games, but there are plenty of matches left in the cup competition.
“So we are still hopeful of going beyond the group stage.”
Al Dhafra 2 Ajman 3
Al Dhafra: Zahran 30’, 45’
Ajman: Hassan 12’, (pen) 82’, Abdulla 90+3’
Ajman kept up their unbeaten record in the League Cup when they defeated Al Dhafra on the road. Waleed Ahmed Hassan opened the scoring before a double from Hassan Zahran gave Dhafra the half-time lead. Ajman struck back after the break, with Hassan again finding the net. The match looked to be heading for a draw but Haddaf Abdulla struck in injury time to seal the win.
Sharjah 2 Dubai 0
Sharjah: Gabriel 19’, Ze Carlos 81’
Sharjah ensured that they kept up with the pace at the top of the Group A table as they registered their second win in two League Cup games against Dubai on Thursday night. Fellype Gabriel got things up and running for the home side when he struck after 19 minutes and Ze Carlos secured all three points after the half-time break to make it 2-0 on the night and kept Sharjah ahead of Baniyas in the table. Sharjah goalkeeper Mohamed Yousif managed a clean sheet.
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Producer: T-Series, Anil Kapoor Productions, ROMP, Prerna Arora
Director: Atul Manjrekar
Cast: Anil Kapoor, Aishwarya Rai, Rajkummar Rao, Pihu Sand
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The Bio
Favourite vegetable: “I really like the taste of the beetroot, the potatoes and the eggplant we are producing.”
Holiday destination: “I like Paris very much, it’s a city very close to my heart.”
Book: “Das Kapital, by Karl Marx. I am not a communist, but there are a lot of lessons for the capitalist system, if you let it get out of control, and humanity.”
Musician: “I like very much Fairuz, the Lebanese singer, and the other is Umm Kulthum. Fairuz is for listening to in the morning, Umm Kulthum for the night.”
Red flags
- Promises of high, fixed or 'guaranteed' returns.
- Unregulated structured products or complex investments often used to bypass traditional safeguards.
- Lack of clear information, vague language, no access to audited financials.
- Overseas companies targeting investors in other jurisdictions - this can make legal recovery difficult.
- Hard-selling tactics - creating urgency, offering 'exclusive' deals.
Courtesy: Carol Glynn, founder of Conscious Finance Coaching
Closing the loophole on sugary drinks
As The National reported last year, non-fizzy sugared drinks were not covered when the original tax was introduced in 2017. Sports drinks sold in supermarkets were found to contain, on average, 20 grams of sugar per 500ml bottle.
The non-fizzy drink AriZona Iced Tea contains 65 grams of sugar – about 16 teaspoons – per 680ml can. The average can costs about Dh6, which would rise to Dh9.
Drinks such as Starbucks Bottled Mocha Frappuccino contain 31g of sugar in 270ml, while Nescafe Mocha in a can contains 15.6g of sugar in a 240ml can.
Flavoured water, long-life fruit juice concentrates, pre-packaged sweetened coffee drinks fall under the ‘sweetened drink’ category
Not taxed:
Freshly squeezed fruit juices, ground coffee beans, tea leaves and pre-prepared flavoured milkshakes do not come under the ‘sweetened drink’ band.
Other acts on the Jazz Garden bill
Sharrie Williams
The American singer is hugely respected in blues circles due to her passionate vocals and songwriting. Born and raised in Michigan, Williams began recording and touring as a teenage gospel singer. Her career took off with the blues band The Wiseguys. Such was the acclaim of their live shows that they toured throughout Europe and in Africa. As a solo artist, Williams has also collaborated with the likes of the late Dizzy Gillespie, Van Morrison and Mavis Staples.
Lin Rountree
An accomplished smooth jazz artist who blends his chilled approach with R‘n’B. Trained at the Duke Ellington School of the Arts in Washington, DC, Rountree formed his own band in 2004. He has also recorded with the likes of Kem, Dwele and Conya Doss. He comes to Dubai on the back of his new single Pass The Groove, from his forthcoming 2018 album Stronger Still, which may follow his five previous solo albums in cracking the top 10 of the US jazz charts.
Anita Williams
Dubai-based singer Anita Williams will open the night with a set of covers and swing, jazz and blues standards that made her an in-demand singer across the emirate. The Irish singer has been performing in Dubai since 2008 at venues such as MusicHall and Voda Bar. Her Jazz Garden appearance is career highlight as she will use the event to perform the original song Big Blue Eyes, the single from her debut solo album, due for release soon.
Libya's Gold
UN Panel of Experts found regime secretly sold a fifth of the country's gold reserves.
The panel’s 2017 report followed a trail to West Africa where large sums of cash and gold were hidden by Abdullah Al Senussi, Qaddafi’s former intelligence chief, in 2011.
Cases filled with cash that was said to amount to $560m in 100 dollar notes, that was kept by a group of Libyans in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
A second stash was said to have been held in Accra, Ghana, inside boxes at the local offices of an international human rights organisation based in France.
