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Svay Rieng’s Kwame Peprah leads the goalscoring chart with eight goals and the Ghanaian looks set to clinch the Top Scorer award. Kuwait, however, will be focused on not letting the forward add to his haul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Peprah also leads the shots charts with 22 while teammate Patrick Robson Monteiro is a close second with 21. Kuwait’s Mohammad Daham Khader Abdullah has also had his fair share with 13.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Monteiro and Abdullah are – together with Dewa United’s Egy Maulana Vikri – the joint-leaders in the assists department with four each and their respective teams will be hopeful both are in form for the final.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Svay Rieng have been more solid defensively, conceding just five times in the seven matches they played to reach the final. Kuwait were weaker at the back, with their defence having been breached seven times in the five games played.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Svay Rieng have kept three clean sheets enroute to the final while Kuwait SC managed only one but both sides can be expected to be defensively solid as they seek to lay their hands on the coveted trophy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Svey Rieng road to the final<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Svay Rieng kicked off their campaign in the best possible fashion, cruising to a 3-0 win against Mongolia’s SP Falcons, with Peprah netting a brace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Patrick, Takashi Odawara and Yudai Ogawa were on the scoresheet as another 3-0 victory – this time against Ezra FC of Laos sealed Svay Rieng their quarter-final spot with a match to spare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That set up a top-of-the-table clash with Manila Digger of the Philippines, with the tie ending 2-2 and Svay Rieng topping the table on goal difference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Quarter-final<\/strong> Peprah netted a hat-trick with Patrick scoring the fourth as they took a comfortable lead into the second leg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Moses Dyer, who had also scored in the first leg, reduced the deficit for Phnom Penh but Svay Rieng roared back with a Takashi Odawara brace securing them a 6-2 aggregate win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Semi-final<\/strong> The Cambodian side, however, were not fazed by playing the return leg away with Saret Krya’s 11th minute strike putting them ahead on aggregate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It became the Peprah show after that with the Ghanaian forward scoring in the 39th and 68th minutes to take Svay Rieng within a match of lifting the AFC Challenge League trophy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Preah Khan Reach Svay Rieng and Kuwait will both be seeking to create history when they\u00a0 square off<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[63],"class_list":["post-12792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","tag-football"],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/AFC-Challenge-League-.jpg",2100,1179,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/AFC-Challenge-League--150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/AFC-Challenge-League--300x168.jpg",300,168,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/AFC-Challenge-League--768x431.jpg",640,359,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/AFC-Challenge-League--1024x575.jpg",640,359,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/AFC-Challenge-League--1536x862.jpg",1536,862,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/AFC-Challenge-League--2048x1150.jpg",2048,1150,true],"morenews-large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/AFC-Challenge-League--825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"morenews-medium":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/AFC-Challenge-League--590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"info":["admin"]},"category_info":"National<\/a>","tag_info":"National","comment_count":"0","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/AFC-Challenge-League-.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12798,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12792\/revisions\/12798"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Awaiting them in the quarter-finals were domestic rivals Phnom Penh Crown FC but Svay Rieng overcome the shock of going behind to a third minute goal to take the first leg by its horns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The semi-final was a repeat showdown with Manila Digger and Svay Rieng looked to be in danger when the first leg at the Morodok Techo National Stadium ended in a 1-1 draw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n