Asamoah Gyan Takes Al Ain to the Asian Champions League Semi-Finals

Ghana striker Asamoah Gyan scored to help Al Ain into the semi finals of the Asian Champions League with a 3-1 win at Al Ittihad on Tuesday night.
The UAE giants proved too good on the night to finish off the tie on a 5-1 aggregate scoreline.
The Black Stars captain scored the equalizer for the Boss just five minutes after going behind.
The 28-year-old collected a well-floated ball in-behind the Ittihad defence by Miroslav Stoch and coolly slotted into the right corner with the outside of his right boot.
Al Ain had gone behind in the 35th minute through an own goal by defender Ismail Ahmed.
Ahmed in his attempt to clear a powerful driven cross tapped into his own net to give the home side hope they could turn the tie around.
But Gyan emerged five minute later to snuff out their faint hopes by hitting his 12th of the Champions League campaign.
Al Ain came out fighting early in the second half and jumped into a lead through Omar Abdulrahman in a move involving Asamoah Gyan in the 66th minute to effectively kill off the tie.
The ex Sunderland man failed to challenge for an aerial ball – rather choosing to use his body as a screen to block off a defender to allow Abdulrahman in behind to slot in.
Zlatko Dalic then decided to pullout Gyan with the job done on the 77th minute bringing on Helal Saeed as a replacement for the Ghana striker.
Al Ain were however not done yet as Ibrahim Diaky scored the third seven minutes from time after some fine work by Miroslav Stoch.
The Slovakian had received yet another ball over the top and could have scored himself but then chose to slow down and wait before putting it on the plate for the incoming Diaky to finish.
Al Ain will now face Al Hilal who grinded out a 0-0 draw with Al Sadd earlier on Tuesday in the semi finals of this season’s Asian Champions League.