César’s stunner keeps Al Hilal PERFECT! ｜ Al Gharafa 🇶🇦 vs Al Hilal 🇸🇦 ｜ Highlights ACL Elite

Four-time Asian champions Al-Hilal travel to Qatari side Al-Gharafa, hoping to defend their perfect record so far. Al-Gharafa, though, will aim to bounce back after the 4-0 defeat to defending champions Al-Ali two weeks ago. Al-Hilal in the main, well on top in the opening eight minutes here as Jao Concela crosses the ball in and that's a bumping header from Salem Al-Dawdari. 1-0 to Al-Hilal early on. It's great work by Concela to force the defensive mistake and Salem does not miss from there. Just under 20 minutes later, Al-Gharafa finally starting to threaten here as Al-Gharafa fires one from long range there. An ambitious effort and wide of the goal. 37th minute as Al-Hilal trying to work the opportunity. They find Jao Concela who takes the shot from range and Ababacar turns it away. Great technique here from the Portuguese, cutting across the ball to keep it low. Half-time, Al-Gharafa doing well to keep the scoreline down to 1-0 as Al-Hilal lead. A quiet start to the second period, but Al-Hilal here just starting to build up ahead of steam in the 66th minute as Caio Cesar shifts the ball and arrows one into the bottom corner for 2-0 to Al-Hilal. Teo Hernandez with the assist and that's a wonderful effort from Caio Cesar. Al-Gharafa with a brave reaction to going two goals down. Not allowing Al-Hilal to dominate possession with crunching tackles coming in and no little skill from Txialo. Tries his luck again there, but Bono is tested, not beaten. Just over seven minutes to go. Al-Malki has come on as a sub and he's causing problems here. Here's the chance off the line, Al-Malki again and it's blocked and over the bar. Oh, they think they should score there, Al-Hilal. Jack Hyun-Soo though with the block, Caio Cesar also involved. Now a corner from Al-Hilal is taken short here. Al-Hamdan looks as though he's lining this up and goes for the curler. And it's away by Ababacar. Fantastic effort there from Abdullah Al-Hamdan. Now into stoppage time and Al-Gharafa coming forward once more. The ball is looped here towards Txialo. He goes for the volley and it's Bono with a smart stop there at the near post. Deep into stoppage time with Al-Hilal down to 10 after an injury to Ali Lajami. Al-Gharafa again causing problems and the shot is fired in there by Ayub Al-Uwe. It's a thunderous one off the bar and it halves the deficit. Al-Hilal though make it four wins from four as they win 2-1.