April 21 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's Nasser Al Shamrani has had his ban for spitting at and head-butting Western Sydney Wanderers defender Matthew Spiranovic after the Asian Champions League final reduced on appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).
The prolific Al-Hilal striker was handed an eight-match ban by the Asian Football Confederation for the incident, which happened in November after his club were beaten by the Australian side 1-0 over the two legs of the final.
CAS stayed the punishment in March and late on Monday reduced the ban to two matches for the head-butt and four matches for the spitting offence with a further two-match ban suspended for a probationary period of two years.