Late Bahrain treble stuns Malaysia

28 Nov, 2011

Bahrain stunned Malaysia with three goals in the last 10 minutes as they stormed back to win 3-2 in a remarkable Olympic qualifier on Sunday. The visitors had gone behind to a long-distance scorcher from Malaysian livewire Muhammad Nazmi and they looked dead-and-buried when Mohamed Al Hayam put the ball in his own net midway through the second half.
But a moment of magic from Saad Al Amer reduced the deficit on 80 minutes when his sublime bicycle-kick dropped over goalkeeper Khairul Fahmi and into the Malaysian net.

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