When: 20/11/08 Where: King fahad staduim, riyadh I know its a bit early for this, but its always good to prepare even as fans Do you think will see the same team that played UAE? Will the league affect the NT Squad? and who do you think would make the squad? starters? Thoughts?
I think it's gonna be a different team aginst South Korea. I saw thier match with UAE. they were not bad and they scored 3 goals from defensive mistakes! I think the best team in the Qualifires is Australia they finished Qatar in 15 minutes. I can't say who will play and who is gonna miss the match.. etc. but I'm sure that R. Al Raheeb or O. Al Muwalled will be the right side back. I'm sure that Abdu Autaif will be the star in this game if he got his chance.
Guys... before I predict the KSA V KOR result, I just like to say that undoubtly, Iran is in a much comfortable & strong position recently as Iran drew against KSA in the first match and won against North Korea, they will most probably beat the UAE in the next match in Abu Dhabi unless UAE have a believe in their abilities and beat Iran 1-0. As far as ksa v kor is concerned, if ksa plays with Mohd Nour and all the other stars then KSA might win 2-1 otherwise It will definitely a draw or Korea might win.
Now, that im not able to watch the saudi league i guess counting on answers is the best option. How was malek moath and yassir doing in the league? nasser al-shamrani seems to be in great form, he really should be playing for the NT.
^ used to watch the saudi league a year back, but after returning to the philippines..its impossible to do so now.
Including Mohammed Noor in the team now will do more to disrupt than to help. Noor is a good player, but he is not such a good, good player that his inclusion alone will determine if we defeat or lose to Korea, c'mon. If anything, we should make sure our defense is up to the challenge, I have a feeling Korea will have much more of the possession. I hope Osama Muwallad plays...I also have alot of faith in Abdu Autef too in this game. All in all, I predict 1-0 for us Inshallah
Don't tell that to an Ittihadi! Noor has three problems: (1) he never plays as well for the Monta5ab as he does for Itti, (2) I hear he's a disruptive presence off the field, and (3) he holds on to the ball a lot and that doesn't fit the style of this team. But really judging by how he plays for Itti he really should be in the squad at least on the bench.
By the way I think the match is on the 19th not the 20th, and for the fellow who asks when the league ends the answer is: nobody knows! But probably some time in late May. The league will go into hiatus (again!) for about 3 weeks before the Korea game anyway.
Does it mean Saudi NT will go abroad to camp again? How will they spend these 3 weeks? Any friendlies during this period? And why do they have a 3 week break in the middle of the season? I don't recall Saudi league having a break in November last year, no?
They're putting the league on hold so they can start a training camp to prepare for the Korea game. Our FA LOVES training camps. I don't know if it's going to be abroad, though. By the way for some teams like Hilal the break is actually 1 month. There's at least one friendly that I know of, against Bahrain on Nov 12.
Wow, break or not it's still a long prep time for Saudi Arabia. Your Coach should feel lucky as the KFA and our league itself would never allow that. No wonder our coach was complaining about all the other asian teams that they all get more training time together than Korea. I thought that was bullshit but now it seems it's actually true.
Hey we are playing wth the World cup 2002 semi finalist!!!!!!!!! Obviously we need to prepare. If somebody has any information for the preparation, could they post it over here.
I dont see Suadi losing here , but lets hope Yasser and Malik back to play the best football . I hope for Suadi win 2-0 at the end
Believe me, everybody in SA wishes it was the same as in Korea or any other advanced footballing nation. Training camps haven't really done us much good at all. Even the team's stamina was sorely lacking against Iran, which makes you wonder what the hell they were doing during the camp.
Watching Tv in Czeck republic . they are training only 2 hours in the NT. they just camp in "Switzerland, Czeck, England, Germany ..etc" to have some nice days in there.