Moatasem Abdullah (Dubai)
The “ADNOC League” race has become the only spectacle in the “Professional League” competitions for the current season, after the curtain came down on the two “Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank Cup” competitions, which concluded on Friday with Al Wahda being crowned at the expense of its rival Al Ain 1-0 in the final, and before that the “Abu Dhabi Cup” championship. Super Cup”, which witnessed the crowning glory of Shabab Al-Ahly, by defeating its competitor, Al-Sharjah, 6-2.
In the remaining five rounds of the league campaign – other than the postponed matches – attention is focused on the quest of Al-Wasl, the leaders with 52 points, to clinch the title, after being 10 points away from the coronation, in light of the race with its closest competitor, Shabab Al-Ahly, “runner-up”, with 43 points out of 20. match, while Hatta, on the other hand, is last with 6 points, and “Falcons” is in penultimate place with 11 points, knocking on the door to relegation to the first division league.
The “22nd round” of the league begins today, with matches between Hatta and Ajman, and Al Jazira with Baniyas, and continues tomorrow with confrontations between Khor Fakkan and Al Ain at Hazza bin Zayed Stadium, and Al Bataeh with Al Wasl, and Shabab Al Ahly with Sharjah, and the round concludes on Tuesday with a match between Al Wahda and Al Nasr.
At the Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum Stadium, Hatta, “the last”, which stands 4 points away from announcing relegation and returning to the first division league, hopes to postpone its inevitable fate in the confrontation against its guest, Ajman, “ninth” with 23 points, and returning to the track of positive results with two wins. Consecutively in the last two rounds against Al-Wahda 2-1, and Khor Fakkan 3-0 by an administrative decision from the Disciplinary Committee.
The balance appears to be close at the level of the results of the two teams’ confrontations in the “Professional League” in 5 previous matches, with “The Hurricane” winning two matches, and “The Orange” winning one, compared to a draw in two matches, the last of which was 1-1 in the first round of the current season at Rashid Bin Stadium. Saeed in Ajman.
In a second match, the desire of Al Jazira, “eighth” with 24 points, to regain the memory of victory absent in the last 8 consecutive matches in the league, to be the longest non-victory streak in the “Pride of Abu Dhabi” record in the professional league, collides with the ambitions of its guest, Bani Yas, “10th.” It has 22 points, and is seeking to achieve the eighth victory in its current career, supported by the morale of its victory in the last round against its guest, Hatta, 4-2.
“Abu Dhabi Pride” excels in direct confrontations against “Al Samawi” with 15 victories, compared to 3 losses and 7 draws, and Al Jazira won the first round match 4-1.
“Area Objectives”
All goals in the Hatta and Ajman confrontations were scored from inside the “penalty area,” and “The Hurricane” scored 5 goals in the previous confrontations against the “Orange,” while the latter only scored two goals.
“Abu Dhabi Pride” preference
Baniyas did not keep a clean sheet in any match against Al Jazira in the “Pro League”, and “Abu Dhabi Pride” is the team that has scored the most against “Al Samawi” in the history of the Professional League, with 62 goals.
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