It's called complacency. They need a royal kick up the back side before it's too late. Bench some big names.
WE were hopeless yesterday as the coach said...we did not deserve a draw too..as part facing jazira they are group favourites and have very good imports... calderon also blamed indirectly the kings cup for such a result... two things i found very sure in hilal and ittihad.. for hilal expect a goal from penalty and for ittihad expect header from osmah muwalled hilal played good..
Well done Ettifaq, Really nice finishing & passing! I never thought that The east Knights can top thier group. now they only need to beat the Uzbeki team to officially qualify with topping the group. at the other hand, Al Shabab ended Sharjah dreams with a historical result. No Al Shabab Needs only to beat Al Garrafah and tie to Piroozi to top the group.
I saw Al Hilal performance, a huge mistake from Al D3aye3 Cost His team a goal in the 2nd minute. but Al Hilal didn't give up. they scored the Equalizer from a nice shot by Al Taib, then the leading goals from Radoi and Yasser. Al Hilal Scored 3 goals, and wasted 4! Nice game by welly, Seol, Radoi and Yasser. I don't know why yasser hitted the Emarati team player. he got red carded because of that! anyways Al Hilal need to win the rest matches aginst Saba Batry and Pa5takor. Ittihad was the worse Saudi team in this round. they were good at the first half. unlike the second one. Al Jazira played a one side game AGAIN!
[MVP "IMO"] Al Shabab (UAE) 1-4 Ettifaq [Tagoe] Al Shabab (KSA) 5-0 Sharjah [Al Shamrani] Al Ahly 1-3 Al Hilal [Christian Wilhelmsson] Al Ittihad 1-1 Al Jazira [Taiseer Al Ntaif]
I think Tarek Al-Tayeb was easily the best player on Wednesday, followed by Radoi, who played his best game since the Cosmin affair. Tarek is the brains of Al-Hilal; when he plays well, Al-Hilal play well. I don't know what we'll do without him next season.
Welly was a great defensive & attacking midfielder at the same time. Unlike Tariq. Radoi was great too, but welly was more effective
hopefully we will see all saudi teams qualify today and tommrow...fingers crossed for ittihad...and ittifaq should not be afraid of old guy rivaldo...
Ittifaq were great. They relied on fast counter attacks to Tagoe and Bashir and I got my money's worth (okay so it was free ) with 4 goals to the good. The first Tagoe goal was brilliant.
Great game by Ettifaq, Very powerful performance shown today. I really didn't expected all that from them!
I just saw the highlights of the Ittifaj game. There's really no excuse not to take Abdelrahman Al-Qahtani to the NT. He's the only true winger we have, and his pace is just amazing.
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