Al Wahda team will play at the Al Nahyan Stadium at 7:30 this evening, one of their most important and dangerous matches in the first round of the Arab Gulf Championships at all, when they face their neighbors in the capital Derby in the 10th round.
The match is almost fateful and represents a crossroads for the team looking for a return to strong competition after the deterioration of its results in the last four rounds, which did not achieve one win, which led to retreat to the fifth place with 15 points, and six points behind the leaders of Sharjah, after That was top of the ranking table in the first three rounds.
There is no alternative to the win for Al Wahda, which they have been looking for for 50 days in the league, when they won the last victory on the Emirates team in the fifth round three goals against one goal, on the fifth of October last year at the stadium of the latter.
The team enters the game with a full force and with a full squad for the first time in a long time, after the team's list of suspensions, the return of the injured Mohammed Barghash, Sultan Al-Ghafri and Murad Batna, and make sure they are fully ready.
It is expected that the unit will play aggressively from the beginning of the game, taking into account the imposition of close control on the sources of gravity of the island and the keys to his game, most notably international scorer Ali Mbkout, and the playmaker Khalfan Mubarak, if confirmed the full readiness and participation in the game from the beginning, and Brazilian Leonardo Pereira .
The match is a bilateral struggle between Argentine striker Sebastien Tigali, top scorer with 10 goals, a hat-trick against Al-Jazira and Ali Mabkhout, Al-Jazira's top scorer with nine goals.
Al-Jazira enters the game as he seeks to return to the three points and continue his victories in the competition, the latest at home to Al Wasl 2-0 in the last round.
Al-Jazira are third with 19 points and are keen to jump to the top of the league in case of the Sharjah teams to lose to Dibba today, and eye to the Union of Kalba tomorrow.
The match is officially the first in the league competition for Dutch coach Damien Hertog, who took the job after the departure of coach and his compatriot Marcel Kaiser, and will be a serious test for the former assistant coach.
Al-Jazira is expected to play in his usual attacking style, with a lot of defensive caution, especially as the team plays away from the home crowd and always enthusiastic fans, especially in derby meetings.
The team is counting on its stars Ali Mbkhout, Brazilian Leonardo Pereira, Khalafan Mubarak and Cameroonian Sebastien Sieni, while Ghana midfielder Ernest Assanti will miss a muscle strain in yesterday's training.
Absences
Unit: None.
Island: Ernest Asante.
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