The Al-Ra'ed Herald
Squad14 Sep 2026
4 goals for Moussa Koné
The match ball belongs to Moussa Koné, whose 4 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Karim Ashraf scores twice — 8.70
Two goals and a mark of 8.70 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Moayad Al-Houti, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 8.22
A mark of 8.22 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
Keny Arroyo turns down Al-Ra'ed
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Cruzeiro keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
A masterclass from Moussa Koné
Marked 9.88 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Al-Ra'ed
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Oumar Gonzalez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Thembinkosi Lorch runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
In brief
- Squad Ahmed Bamasud in a row with a teammate
- The terraces One of their own: Karim Ashraf
- Market Sultan Al-Khaibari steps up from the Al-Ra'ed academy