Romarinho scored a hat-trick, including two goals in the last ten minutes of the match, as El Jaish beat Umm Salal 3-1 in the Qatar Stars League yesterday.

In their last match, against Al Wakrah, Jaish had gone down to a Sebastian Saez double but the Brazilian striker gave Jaish a reason to cheer yesterday.

In another match, Lee Jung-Soo’s 92nd minute strike ensured that Al Sadd, who were beaten 1-3 by Al Shahaniya in their last match on Sunday, beat Al Kharaitiyat 3-2 yesterday.

Rodrigo Tabata scored a brace, with his first giving Sadd a 1-0 lead. After Kharaitiyat’s Abdulaziz Rashid al-Ansari equalised 12 minutes into the second half, Tabata found the net in the 82nd minute giving Sadd a slim lead.

Hassan Abdel Fattah, who had scored a double against Al Shamal in Monday’s 3-3 draw, equalised in the 89th minute for Kharaitiyat.

South Korean Lee, with some assistance from teammate Nadir Belhadj, found the left corner of the net to seal the deal for Sadd.

With the win, Sadd ensured they are tied with Lekhwiya on points at the top. Both the teams have 36 points from 15 matches.

Lekhwiya, however, with a 4-2 win over Al Khor yesterday, ensured they have edged further ahead on goal difference.

Khor must have fancied themselves when forward Weliam Gonior scored in the 18th minute. Lekhwiya, however, slowly clawed back into the game, first with an equaliser by Ismail Mohamed in the 37th minute and then by adding two more in the second half. And then there was also an own goal by Khor defender Mohamed Jomaa al-Alawi in the 76th minute.

Vladimir Weiss gave Lekhwiya a 3-1 lead in the 81st minute before Khaled Muftah added to Khor’s misery moments from time.

In the 66th minute, Hilal Mohamed scored Khor’s second.

Al Shahaniya slumped to a 0-1 defeat after an impressive 3-1 win over Sadd on Sunday.

Sailiya’s Issam Jemaa scored late in the 86th minute to give his team their fifth victory in the last seven games.