In the next match, against Saudi Arabia, he increased his tally to seven goals after scoring both goals in a 2-0 win. In doing so, he became a joint scorer on the AFC Asian Cup Group Stage, sharing the record with Ali Daei of Iran, Choi Soon-ho of South Korea, and Naohiro Takahara of Japan. He also broke Mansour Muftah's record of scoring five goals for the Qatari national team in the AFC Asian Cup.
In the semi-final against the United Arab Emirates, Ali scored his eighth goal of the tournament with a 4-0 victory, the equivalent of the Ali Daei mark established in 1996 as the number one goal for an AFC Asian Cup match. He broke that record in the next game after scoring the opening goal by kicking a bicycle in the final match of the 2019 AFC Asian Cup against Japan.
