Al Rayyan coach Nicholas Cordova stressed the importance of the match that will bring his team together with Al Wakra tomorrow in poned match of the tenth week of the QNB Stars League. Cordova said, during the pre-match press conference: We have an important confrontation against Al-Wakrah, and it is a very strong team that can impose its strength on the field, and it is not easy to get the three points against this team, and we must be 100 percent ready. He continued: Preparations will be at the highest level to obtain the required result from the match. He added: We know that we came from afar after achieving one point in 7 matches, and we succeeded in achieving important points in the past matches, and we found ourselves in front of two teams at the bottom of the standings table, and behind two teams, Al Shamal and Al Markhiya, with a small difference in points, and we will try through the matches. The upcoming team will overtake Al Shamal and Al Markhiya in the ranking table, and all the points that we will fight for in the upcoming matches will be very important in light of this situation. For his part, Al-Wakra coach Marques Lopez, the Spaniard, stressed the importance of points in the next match against Al-Rayyan, and Lopez said in his statements during the press conference: Naturally, we did not have enough time to prepare for this confrontation, given that we played the last match on Wednesday evening, and therefore we only had one day to recover. And one more day to prepare for this match, while the opposing team got an extra day of rest, given that it played on Tuesday. He added: When we lose any match, this reflects negatively on the team, and therefore our recent loss in the Emir Cup is not positive, but from another point of view, we now have fewer matches and we need to focus on the league championship so that we can finish the competition in the best position and maintain our presence in the league. box in the order table. And he continued: We have many injuries within the team, starting with Omid Ibrahimi, who has been injured for a long time, and ending with Trent Sainsbury, who was injured in the last match, in addition to Ibrahim Al-Sadiq, Ahmed Fadel and Amir Al-Sayed. Al-Rayyan ranks tenth in the Qatari league table with 12 points, while Al-Wakra comes fourth with 23 points.

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