The domineering display was led by a brace from Al Jazira ace Ali Mabkhout and a strike from substitute Ahmed Khalil, who was returning from injury. Mabkhout delighted with iceman goals and ...

Sporting the No 7 shirt and anointed the UAE’s penalty taker in Ali Mabkhout’s headline-making absence, it felt eerily familiar. Yet, to their credit, Yemen started the second half the brighter.

On a series of selections, too, chiefly in excluding from the line-up, and then expelling from the squad, Ali Mabkhout. The UAE’s all-time leading goalscorer, an Asian Cup Golden Boot winner ...