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AFC dishes out bans after mass brawl

The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) on Saturday suspended Suwon's Ristikj Stevica and assistant coach Ko Jong-su for the second leg in Doha on October 26.

Al Sadd players Keita Abdul Kader and Mamadou Hamidou Niang, plus goalkeeping coach Suhail Saber Ali, will also be ineligible following Wednesday's ill-tempered game, won 2-0 by the Qatari side.

In some of the worst scenes in the AFC's premier club competition players could be seen kicking at each other, while several fights broke out across the field.

Even Al Sadd's Uruguayan coach Jorge Fossati said: "Niang lost his head and made the decision to attack [for the second goal] himself. I don't want to defend it."