Football: Marinos miss out on 1st ACL title with defeat to Al Ain

Yokohama F Marinos missed out on their first Asian Champions League title on Saturday, losing the final 6-3 on aggregate to Al Ain after the first-time finalists went down 5-1 in the return leg in the United Arab Emirates with a man sent off.The J-League side held a 2-1 lead from the first leg two weeks earlier and the match at Hazza Bin Zayed Stadium was in the balance with Al Ain leading 2-1 until Marinos goalkeeper William Popp was shown a straight red on the stroke of halftime for tripping two-goal scorer Soufiane Rahimi outside the box."This shows the level we are at. We went down to 1…READ FULL ARTICLE