The highly-entertaining postponed fixture of the 8th week between Tadamon Tyr and Ansar could be summed up as following:

Tadamon saving their worst performance when it mattered most, Ansar shouldn't be written off at any stage of league action.

Just what it would take Tadamon Tyr to finally impose themselves as genuine and true challengers for the league title this season?

They were the entertaining side, they had the luxury of playing a full 50-minute period against a 10-men weakened opposition, still failed to make the opposite net speak albeit claiming the most of the play, notably after the interval.

On the other hand, Al-Ansar proved all their critics wrong with a performance reminiscent of their traditional way of tackling decisive matches during the current decade: Outstanding organization in every department of their game, starting the away fixture on a high note with sheer commitment and determination, and snatching 2 crucial goals at decisive moments of the encounter despite being down to 10 men, two minutes after the break and eight minutes from the final whistle -- just the way every champion side begin, manage and end a positive operation away from home, and against one of the top guns of the local football scene.

The game kicked off on a high note for both sides, the visitors having the most dangerous clear-cut chances in the opposite goalmouth without capitalizing on any of them, before things turned a bit tense between the players, the visitors' Iraqi playmaker Leith Hussein being shown the marching orders by the man-in-black after committing an ugly foul on Tadamon's Bilal Hajo when both players collided for a 50/50 ball in the center circle, five minutes from half time.

After the break, it was a one-way traffic towards the visitors' penalty box, but young promising forward Fadi Ghoson managed to edge Al-Ansar (1-0) up in the 47th minute, thanks to a brilliant half-volley from 8-yard out, following a neat header by Toboggan forward Peter Prospar, playing as a starter for the first time in the last four matches.

Tadamon maintained their complete superiority in midfield, but failed to find the breakthrough against a very sound and tight defensive line, typically marshaled by the vastly-experienced sweeper Kevork Guarbetian and valiant young keeper Ziad Al-Samad at the back, only for Ghoson again to punish them with a second strike, this time clinically finishing the mission after a defensive blunder between keeper Ali Hoteit and central defender Youssouf Hijazi in the 82nd minute, rounding off a memorable victory for Al-Ansar who claimed the 3rd place with 17 points, just 1 point adrift of leaders Al-Nijmeh, Tadamon slipped back to the 4th spot with 14 points, only three days prior to yet another difficult mission, this time away to Safa in Beirut. .