Al -Gharafa will play tonight its second match in the Asian Champions League for the elite, where the Iraqi police team will host, in a confrontation that will be strong and difficult, as there is no alternative to winning against Al -Gharafa to compensate for his first unexpected loss against Sharjah Emirates, and the police are looking for his first victory after drawing on his stadium and among his fans in the first round with the Sidawi leader.
The match will start at seven in the evening at Khalifa International Stadium, and it will be played by Al -Gharafa without points, while the police balance is one point.
Al -Gharafa is well aware that there is no alternative to victory not only in order to correct the image and reconcile the masses after the first loss, but it is well aware that the championship at this stage requires obtaining the largest number of points so that it is between the eight adults who qualified to the round of 16.
It is certain that the Portuguese coach Pedro Martins has a complete idea of the police and his performance through the first match with the dam and he knew his strengths before the weaknesses and the most prominent players.
Al -Gharafa is also good and high, after defeating Al Rayyan in a fiery summit and ten players, a victory that drives him to achieve the first victory today, and the performance he provided confirms his readiness for the match and the difficult confrontation.
It is expected that the cheetahs will find a great defensive resistance by the police in the first minutes in order to work to secure its goal as much as possible and then turn into the apostate attack to kidnap a goal, which must warn of Al -Gharafa and its defense and also the midfield.
Al -Gharafa will attack since the first minutes and will kidnap an early goal, supported in the strong community led by Yassin Brahimi, Ferjani Sassi and Fabricio Diaz Warron, in addition to Ahmed Al -Janhi who is good at many offensive roles, and will be supportive of the duo and the bayonets of Josello
Al -Gharafa depends on his attack on the mass move of the middle and two backs, and at the same time depends on Yassin Brahimi’s skills to penetrate the defense and make opportunities, balls and goals for his colleagues.
As for the police, the task is on the Syrian striker Mahmoud Al -Mawas to compensate for the departure of his teammate and the team’s goal, Muhannad Ali, who will lose him the police, but in return he contracted with many names such as Moses Lucas, Dominic Mende, Hussein Jabbar, Sharif Abdel Kazim and other names capable of representing the team.
Pedro Martinez: Winning is necessary for compensation
Al -Gharafa coach Pedro Martinez stressed the importance of his team’s confrontation with the Iraqi police. Martinez said, during the press conference that precedes the confrontation.
He added: “In front of Sharjah, we appeared well in the first half, but we lost our focus in the second half, so we will try to avoid mistakes tomorrow, because the small details are very important. Police is a distinguished team and has many experienced elements and plays on rapid transformations. ”
Al -Gharafa coach indicated that his team will lose the efforts of goalkeeper Khalifa Abu Bakr, who received the red card in the last round, while the duo Mohamed Montari and Amr Siraj Al -Ghara will continue due to the injury.
Ahmed Al -Janhi: We seek to delight our fans
Al -Gharafa striker Ahmed Al -Janhi said that his team was determined to achieve his first victory in the championship after the loss in the Sharjah opening match, adding: “We appeared at a good level in the Sharjah meeting despite the loss and our goal tomorrow is compensation and continued our upward coordination after the last victory over Al -Rayyan in the league. The atmosphere is very great within the team and we hope to achieve the desired result that delights our fans. ”
Moamen Suleiman: We will rely on team play
Al -Masry Moamen Suleiman, the Iraqi police coach, stressed the importance of facing his team against Al -Gharafa.
Suleiman said, during the press conference that precedes the confrontation, that he realizes the difficulty of the task in front of Al -Gharafa, who is in the meeting at home, stressing the desire of the Iraqi team to show its strength in the current version of the continental championship and compensate for what happened in the last season’s edition.
He added that his team will try to avoid making mistakes and finding appropriate solutions and relying on team play to compensate for the effective shortage in its ranks, noting that the team will miss the efforts of a number of players, headed by the Iraqi international Amir Sabah, who suffered a health problem and did not travel with the team, as Salem Ahmed suffers from injury, along with the Brazilian professional Lucas Moses, who was also injured, as well as midfielder Abdul Majeed Abu Bakr Al -Ghaib since the beginning of the season.