The Umm Salal team will be the guest of Al Duhail at Abdullah Bin Khalifa Stadium, starting at seven in the evening, as part of the fourteenth round of the QNB Stars League, in a fiery meeting, during which both teams are looking forward to winning and clinching the confrontation points.
Al-Duhail leads the standings with 45 points, in order to achieve its fifteenth victory this season, to move forward towards maintaining the lead, which makes it gradually approaching the coronation of the league shield, in light of the title-holder Al-Sadd’s departure from the competition race 3 rounds before the championship train arrives at its station. Concluding. On the other hand, the Umm Salal team, led by its Moroccan coach Talal Al-Karkouri, who is in the eleventh and penultimate position in the standings table with 16 points, aspires to achieve victory and the three points in order to move as far as possible from the bottom of the standings and escape from the danger of direct relegation to the second division, especially since The difference between Umm Salal and Al-Sailiya, bottom of the standings, does not exceed only 6 points, before 3 rounds of closing.
Hernán Crespo: We have to respect the opponent The Argentine coach Hernán Crespo, coach of Al Duhail team, confirmed his team’s determination to seize the points of the match that will bring it together with Umm Salal. And we must respect them, as they will play in front of us with a high fighting spirit because they are looking for safety and moving away from the relegation centers".
added: "Being two points ahead is very good and it means a lot to me, and me and all the players want to win the remaining nine points in our next matches, as we have struggled throughout this season despite the difficulties we faced.". Crespo concluded: "We know that the upcoming matches will not be easy, as we will face two teams that are fighting to stay in the league, and there is a match against Al Sadd, the defending champions, and we have to play all the matches with great focus.".
Talal Al-Karkouri: A difficult confrontation awaits us "QNB Stars League" It will be very difficult, but he expressed great confidence in his team’s ability to achieve a satisfactory result. added: "An important confrontation awaits us, of course it will be difficult as always in the matches of the two teams, and I hope that we will appear as strong as we were in the final match of the Arid Cup, which was won by Al Duhail, and that we will play with the same strong spirit with which the team fought that confrontation". Al-Karkouri pointed out that Al-Duhail is a strong team with distinguished players and leads the league, so facing it requires intense focus and great effort. He concluded his remarks: "Al-Duhail wants to win in order to secure its lead and try to move away from Al-Arabi and Al-Sadd, and we want to win in order to move away from the difficult area, and therefore we need match points.".
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