QOC
The Qatari football team began their AFC Asian Cup campaign with a 2-0 win over Lebanon in a Group E match on Wednesday.
Goals from Bassam Al Rawi and Al Moez Ali earned the Qataris their first win of the tournament after a tepid goalless first half.
The pace quickened in the second period and the breakthrough came on 65 minutes when Bassam swept a curling free kick over the wall and past a diving Mehdi Kahlil.
Substitute defender Abdelkarim Hassan, the 2018 Asian player of the year, was causing problems down the left and it was his break that created Qatar's second when Almoez Ali gobbled up a rebound with 11 minutes on the clock.