Thani Bin Jassim Stadium in Al-Gharafa Club will host this evening the important and fateful match that will bring together Al-Arabi and Al-Shamal in the 16th round of the Prince’s Cup championship at exactly 7:30 in the evening. The ambition of each team is to win and reach the quarter-finals of the prestigious tournament. Al-Arabi enters the match with one goal, which is to win and continue to appear well in the league this season. He is the one who occupies second place with 31 points and is still competing for the league title, while the Al-Shamal team is trying to revive it with its new coach, Wissam. Rizk, who put Al-Shamal back on the track, the last of which was a three-way victory over Al-Qatrawi, put Al-Shamal in ninth place with 14 points.
In this match, the Al-Arabi team is counting first on its good level, which it is presenting this season, as well as on the precedence it has at the expense of Al-Shamal club, which it won in the first and second sections of the league with a score of one goal to zero, even if today’s confrontation will be completely different from the league by virtue of the good level that appeared. Al-Shamal has played in the last three confrontations with coach Wissam Rizk, and Al-Arabi and its fans are wishing them to reach the furthest point in this precious tournament, and why not repeat the achievement of 2020 by qualifying for the final and losing to Al-Sadd in the final.
Al-Shamal Club is also seeking to surprise and pass through to the quarter-final round of the most expensive tournaments, especially since the team is full in numbers and does not suffer from any absences. Even the last confrontation between the two teams ended with a goal to zero and with great difficulty for the Al-Arabi team, which suffered in front of Al-Shamal, and what is certain is that today’s confrontation will be a heavy football summit At Al Gharafa Stadium, especially since the coaches Younes Ali and Wissam Rizk confirmed that they aspire to win and go to advanced roles in this tournament.
Younes Ali: Our goal is to go to the farthest stage of the tournament. Younis Ali, the coach of Al-Arabi, spoke about Al-Shamal meeting today in the final price round of the Prince’s Cup. I hope that we will be on our day and present the required level, because the first matches of the championship revealed a very strong competition. On the brilliance of Al-Arabi this season, he said, “We presented great levels and aspire for the best, and we have already won against Al-Shamal in two matches in the league, but today’s match will be completely different. Al-Shamal played well in the league with coach Wissam Rizk, and they will definitely play to win today’s match.” Absences He said we must deal with the situation and prepare all players.
Regarding Al-Arabi’s ability to win the championship, which is what the fans of the team dream of, he said: Al-Arabi is an ancient team, and it is a club of championships, and its fans always demand a return to coronations and titles, which constitutes a great pressure factor for us, and regarding his opinion on arbitration, he said arbitration errors occur in football, and I never felt that the referees were targeted. Al-Arabi, and if we lose in some matches, we must blame ourselves first.
Gunnarsson: We have to think about the north. Icelandic player Aron Gunnarsson, Al-Arabi player, said about Al-Shamal meeting today that the confrontation will be very difficult and completely different from the league matches. The atmosphere of this tournament previously was through reaching the final round with Al-Arabi, and we lost the final against Al-Sadd, but Al-Arabi is able to return again and repeat the achievement, and he said that all teams seek to reach the final and this tournament has its great advantage in surprises even at the global level, and we must think first in the north and then in the next roles.
Wissam Rizk: I am a realistic coach. Al-Shamal coach Wissam Rizk confirmed that facing Al-Arabi in the Emir’s Cup will be very difficult. He said the championship is dear to all of us, and the ambition of all players is to reach the final round. He said we will face one of the best clubs in the league led by coach Younes Ali, and about his team, Al-Shamal said. There has been a good atmosphere recently, and we have achieved results at the level, and we aspire for the best. Coach Wissam Rizk thanked his players for the good results achieved in the last rounds of the league, and said that today’s confrontation will be between Al-Arabi and Al-Shamal, not Younis Ali and Wissam Rizk, and about the absences, he said the beautiful thing before today’s match is that everyone is ready to meet against Al-Arabi, who has a strong attacking line and great balance. in all fonts.
And about the defensive strength that became distinguished by the North team after supervising the team, he said: I am a realistic coach, and the team was in the last positions, and we were required to correct defensive mistakes, and then play offensively, and the North improved a lot in the offensive line. Al-Shamal coach concluded his speech about Al-Arabi by saying that Al-Shamal’s competitor today is very strong and has players at the level, and he personally tried to study the opponent to determine the strengths and weaknesses that he will try to play against today’s match.
Matthews Nani: Cup matches are strong Argentine Matthews Nani, the North player, said that cup confrontations are always very difficult and strong between all teams, including today’s confrontation in which we aspire to achieve a positive result that would make us qualify for the next round of the tournament, and he continued, We faced the Al-Arabi attack in two matches in the league, which is A very strong attack, but today we will stop the attacking line of Al-Arabi, and the match will not be easy for them at all. The player also expressed his great happiness with Argentina’s achievement of the World Cup in Doha and Argentina’s domination of the best prizes awarded by FIFA,Football,Soccer,Football,Soccer last month.
