Despite the loss of four in front of the Russian team in the friendly meeting that took place between them the day before yesterday, this experience must be used and converted into positives for Al -Annabi before the start of his career in the continental attaché qualified to the 2026 World Cup. It is good that you face stronger competitors than you and lose before them, to learn from them and benefit from contact with them, which is better than playing with weak teams that we achieve unhelpful or positive victories. The Russian experience and before it playing with Bahrain, matters completely revealed to Lopetegui, Al -Annabi coach, and put the points on the letters, and showed him the vision, whether for formation, players, plan, style and way of playing, and thus choosing the best in the first match against Oman in the continental attachment.
The Russian experience was a useful and good lesson for our team, which needed to be like it before the start of the previous stage of the qualifiers, which, if he had liked it, would have now been in America instead of running the continental attaché competitions.
Al -Annabi cannot be judged in this experience for many reasons, the most important of which is that the coach tried to use it to benefit before the attachment matches.
Perhaps Lopetegui wanted to experience technical, planning and tactical matters, and he may expect a difficult thing in the official matches, so he wanted to train in an open experience against a strong team like the Russian team, unlike the previous experience that was closed to the Bahraini team. The experiment revealed many and many mistakes represented in the absence of the center completely in the first half, which caused the team to bear a great defensive burden that resulted in 3 goals in 45 minutes, and also caused the disappearance of the attack and its inability to reach even to the penalty area of the Russian team
On the other hand, it must be recognized that Al -Annabi was able to treat some mistakes with the changes made by Lopetegui, which helped improve the performance of the medium defensively and offensive, as the Russian risk decreased, and an attack appeared
There is an important thing that must be stood in front of him before the continental attachment and related to the level of some players whom Al -Annabi and the fans were attached to them great hopes, after appearing at a remarkable level in the league, but they have not provided anything yet to the team, and they did not achieve any addition, and they did not appear at the expected level, especially Admixon who did nothing since he joined Al -Annabi, and even the Russian match was only the blow of the head that was saved by the goal He is expected to shine offensive and in addition to Akram Afif, who has become responsible on his own to reach the goal of the competitors.
On the contrary, there are young faces that have proven their competence and confirmed their possession of good capabilities in the Russian experience, and it deserves to get the full opportunity such as Mohamed Mannai, who improved the performance of Al -Annabi attacking after his participation and returned life to the right front and made the only goal for our team.
