Afcon winner and former Liverpool Star Sadio Mane dodged a Red Card despite his indiscipline during Al Nassar vs Al Ain in an Asian Champions League fixture that ended 4-3 on penalties.

The referee showed the former Liverpool forward a yellow card after putting his hand around the neck of Al-Ain substitute Saeed Juma.

Al-Nassr had lost 3-1 on penalties to Al-Ain in the quarter-finals of the Asian Champions League, having lost 1-0 away and then won 4-3 at home. 

Al-Ain manager Hernan Crespo saw the incident and was seen appealing to the referee by reenacting it on the sidelines.

Mane’s teammates tried to calm him down and he escaped further punishment, but it was still a miserable night for Al-Nassr, who lost on penalties to exit the competition.

The drama continued with Al-Nassr’s Ayman Yahya sent off for a two-footed lunge and the visitors thought they had won it when Sultan Al-Shamsi netted in the 103rd minute to make it 4-3.

But Ronaldo made amends for his earlier miss – one of 13 efforts on goal – by scoring from the penalty spot in the 118th minute to send the match at Al-Awwal Park to penalties.

Ronaldo apologised to the Al-Nassr fans after scoring, but he was the only one who emerged with any credit in the shoot-out as Al-Nassr’s other star players, Telles, Otavio and Marcelo Brozovic, all failed to score.

Al-Ain scored three times to take the shoot-out 3-1 and book an AFC Champions League semi-final against either Al-Hilal or Al-Ittihad, both from Saudi Arabia.

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