Mitrovic scores in final as Al Rayyan win QSL Cup and end trophy drought

[p][a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/roger-guedes/ObhjjtCO/"]Roger Guedes[/a] opened the scoring in the final minutes of the first half to give [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/team/al-rayyan/SWo1QmYO/"]Al Rayyan[/a] the lead,cooly slotting past the keeper after beating his man with a lovely bit of skill.[/p][p]Serbia international [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/mitrovic-aleksandar/OYOr8rkm/"]Mitrovic[/a] then doubled that lead eight minutes after the break by heading in a free-kick.[/p][p]Muaither never looked like turning things around after that, with Al Rayyan largely keeping control of the game until the final whistle to win their first trophy since 2018.[/p][embed guid="10ea118f-b937-44f4-86b6-a4ce7b222f0e" url="https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXKlwlRjPHk/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link" social-type="instagram" /][p]Speaking after the final, Mitrovic said: “[b]The feeling is amazing. We worked very hard for this. It's been a long season, in the end we reach the final. [/b][/p][p][b]"We are so happy, because we put a lot of work and hopefully this is a big push for us in the future. This will give us confidence to win more trophies. [/b][/p][p][b]"But I'm very happy for the final. After a long time, we bring a trophy to the club.”[/b][/p][p]It's the first trophy that Mitrovic has won since arriving in Qatar from Al-Hilal in Saudi Arabia, and comes a month after he [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/news/soccer-qsl-exclusive-aleksandar-mitrovic-on-playing-football-in-the-middle-east-in-times-of-conflict/EedzdFg5/"][b]outlined that as his biggest goal in an exclusive interview with Flashscore.[/b][/a][/p][p][b]“The goal is to win at least one trophy,”[/b] he said in March.[/p][p][b]“In the last few years, the team has been really unlucky, came close to winning a few trophies but never took them home. So I hope the goals I score will be important in bringing a trophy back to the club."[/b][/p][p][b][a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/game/soccer/al-rayyan-SWo1QmYO/muaither-sc-n3EQwNyg/?mid=xhLpGV7m"]Click here for more on the final.[/a][/b][/p]