Following is the Seeding for AFC Qualifying Round 3: Pot 1 Japan Australia South Korea Iran China PR Pot 2 Uzbekistan Qatar Jordan Saudi Arabia Kuwait Pot 3 Bahrain Syria Oman Iraq United Arab Emirates Pot 4 North Korea Thailand Singapore Indonesia Lebanon Seems like it is going to be tough group for Saudi Arabia if it falls under the group having Any Team from Pot 1 along with Iraq & North Korea ...
Yeah. Saudi not being on pot one, Saudi could be headed for difficult place just because their in pot two. But still, I'm thinking Saudi would have no real problems finishing top-two in the group to go to final round.
The grouping is done and Saudi Arabia finds themselves with Australia. Following are the teams in Group D: Group D Saudi Arabia Australia Oman Thailand Saudi Arabia Should get positive results in all home games + must get positive result against Australia in Australia .... Fixtures: 2 September 2011........... Australia v Thailand 2 September 2011........... Oman v Saudi Arabia 6 September 2011........... Saudi Arabia v Australia 6 September 2011........... Thailand v Oman 11 October 2011............. Australia v Oman 11 October 2011............. Thailand v Saudi Arabia 11 November 2011........... Saudi Arabia v Thailand 11 November 2011........... Oman v Australia 15 November 2011........... Saudi Arabia v Oman 15 November 2011........... Thailand v Australia 29 February 2012............. Australia v Saudi Arabia 29 February 2012............. Oman v Thailand All The Best To Saudi Arabia Insha' Allah ...
Looking at the fixtures,Saudi should qualify early before they meet Aussies away.Any downturn in the early matches can prove costly because we are not used to play Aussies at there home,so it will be difficult to analyse the overall game conditions in Australia if we are in do or die stage in the last match day..
Our first match against OZ is a MUST win. We need to exploit our home advantage to the fullest extent.
Who is the number 10 dude that played against hongkong? The small dude...OBviously not shalhoub..I need to keep track more of this team....sigh
The FA approved the venues for the qualification- Vs Australia- In Dammam Vs Thailand and Oman in Riyadh.
I think they should rotate venues all across the country like Italy do. Particularly since we have some under utilised venues. you can have a game in Abha, one in Hofuf, one in Ta'if etc..
I'm not familiar with rijkard, but i think he should look at some youngster in the under 20 cup in Colmiba
Why the game against Austalia is in Dammam ? Shouldn't it be played in Jeddah where crowd pressure will be enough to win the match?
Any idea if Saudi Arabia is going to play any friendly matches for preparing well against Australia ? Moreover, who are the players in the national squad ? Any news ? I hope Saudi gains maximum points i.e., 9 out of 9 points, for all the home games and also get 7 points minimum out of 9 points available in away matches (probably getting a draw against Australia in the last match)... Saudi Arabia should really eye itself to get maximum 6 poinst each against both Oman & Thailand ... Frank should keep this in mind ...
I dont know.I am not the one who decided it. Anyways i wanted the matches to be played in other cities like Qassim where you have a huge 40k stadium and also in one in Makkah. Regarding the Jeddah, i dont like the crowd support in Jeddah, which makes the match dull and less attractive.
Still the news about the friendly match and the team is not announced.Hope we have the same team that played against Hong Kong with some changes like Saad Harthi in place of Yousef Salem and Saud Kariri and Ahmed Fraidy to be in.
Where is Naif Hazzazi? He is the best Header in Saudi National Team ... Is Yasser Al Qahtani out of Saudi NT ? + Isn't he fit now as he scored in all the games he played for Al Hilal in the Training Camp in Germany which concluded this week? Why was Ahmed Al Faraidi out from the NT in the first place ? Moreover, Saad Al Harthi never impressed (IMO) when he played for the National Team and he never scored in crucial matches (apart from Iran in Riyadh in WCQ2010) ... or he only scored when KSA was in a winning position ... I believe that he has to prove himself ... he couldn't do anything while playing for Al Nasr, what can he do for KSA... Yousef Salem is better than him and only thing he needs is more experience at the senior level ... Oman is playing a friendly match against Bahrain on 10 August 2011 in UAE. If Saudi Arabia is not playing any friendly match at the moment & that Saudi Arabia have not announced NT players as yet so, I believe that this is an opportunity for Frank Rijkaard to view the match between Oman & Bahrain and see if he can find out any weak points during their game for Saudi Arabia to take full advantage of them when KSA plays against Oman.
Oman will also play a friendly match against Kuwait ... Where is Saudi Arabia? ... I hope Saudi FA is taking these qualifying matches seriously .... KSA should look to gain at least 4 points out of these first 2 matches ...
The squad announced for Oman and Australia match- The squad- Hasan A Otaibi, Yasser Al Musailim, Waleed Abdallah, Husein Shiaan, Abdallah Shohail, HAsan Muath, Ahmad Otaif, Nasser Al Shamrani, Osama Hosawi, Majed Al Mershidi, Abdallah Al Zouri, Mohammad Al Shalhoub, Nawaf Al Abed, Hamad Al Montashiri, Osama Al Mowalad, Rashed Al Raheb, Nayef Hazzazi, Taysir Al Jasem, Mutaz Al Musa, Ibrahim Ghaleb, Saoud Hmoud, Yousef Al Salem, Yahya Al Shahri, Mohammad Al Sahlawi, Ahmad Al Faridi, Saoud Kariri, Abdulazizi Al Dosari, Yasser Al Qahtani. Any one knows why Noor out again.
Fair team selection (not bad) but it is very weak team if they will play against Australia ... This team seems to be a mixture of youth & experience ... though no one can fill the gap of Noor ... Ahmed Al Fraidi will be a key player as he has all the skills but needs to focus on his passing ...
they need to let go of yasser al qahtani replace him with yousef al salem plus they need to add kamel al musa to that squad and who the hell is husein shiaan ? osama hosawi and waleed abdulla are overrated and where is Khaled al zealaiy ? damn why dont they let me select the squad