Moatasem Abdullah (Dubai)
Al-Nasr deserved the title of “Hunter of Competitors” for the leading positions in the “ADNOC Professional League”, by defeating its guest, Shab Al-Ahly, 3-2 in “Round 19”, which brought together the two teams at Al Maktoum Stadium, so that “Al-Ameed” won the fourth point against “Al-Fursan”. The competitor for second place in the league standings after a 3-3 draw in the first round match in the “sixth round”.
With the exception of the narrow loss to its host Al Wasl, the “leader,” with a score of 0-1 at the end of the first round, awaiting the final round match at Al Maktoum Stadium, “Al-Ameed” achieved positive results against the rest of the competitors at the top, by outperforming Al Ain, “third,” in the first and second round matches. 1-0 and 3-1, respectively, in addition to a 1-1 draw against Al-Wahda “Fourth” in the first round within “Round 9”.
Dutchman Alfred Schroeder, Al-Dean's coach, expressed his happiness at winning the derby and getting the three points. He said: “I am proud of the players' performance and I congratulate them on the high, fighting spirit, way of playing, performance, mentality, personality, success in scoring, and defensive performance against a strong competitor that includes players at the highest level.”
He added: “We were not afraid of Shabab Al-Ahly, and we controlled the match well, and the numerical deficiency among the opponent’s ranks increased the difficulty of my team’s task after we wasted many opportunities to increase the number of goals. I believe that the personality of the team, the courage of performance, and the reaction are the most important positives in the match.” He explained that He asked his players to be more eager and hungry to achieve victories, and to have the necessary humility since the team has not achieved anything yet.
On the other hand, Al-Shabab Al-Ahly coach Marko Nikolic, Serbian, congratulated his rival Al-Nasr on the victory, and said: “The two teams played a good match, and the competitor succeeded in scoring from the first two chances in the first half, unlike my team, which did not take advantage of the available opportunities, before we suffered from a numerical deficiency before the end of the half.” The first was due to being sent off for an unnecessary foul in the middle of the field.”
He added: “In the second half we played better tactically and we sought to focus on crosses from the right side in light of the decline in physical performance, and we succeeded in scoring the equalizing goal, before our goal conceded a third goal in the minutes of stoppage time from a long distance,” pointing out that his team suffered from He was exhausted and suffered his first loss this year, 2024, expressing satisfaction with the performance in general despite the loss.
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