Argentine Hernan Crespo, coach of Al-Duhail team, confirmed today his team’s determination to seize the points of the match that will bring it together tomorrow / Saturday / with its counterpart Umm Salal, at Abdullah bin Khalifa Stadium, within the 20th round of the Qatari Football League. "QNB Stars League". In the pre-match press conference, he said: "Another match, the outcome of which depends on us because we are the favorites to achieve victory, and we will face a team that we have previously faced in the league and in the I want cup final, and it was a difficult match, and for this we must do a great job in order to achieve victory, 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 away from landing 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.".
For his part, Moroccan Talal Al Karkouri, coach of the Umm Salal team, said: Tomorrow his team will face the leaders of the standings "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 “I want” 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.". Al-Duhail tops the league standings with 45 points, two points behind its closest pursuer, Al-Arabi, who is in second place, while Umm Salal is in eleventh place with 16 points.
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