Athletes attributed the decline of Sharjah's results in the recent period to several factors, most notably the team's reliance on the defensive style, the loss of its offensive identity, and the abandonment of its previous method, which is the offensive pressure on the competitors through which he achieved superiority over large teams in the league, and led him to win the Arab Gulf League championship season The past, in addition to its lack of distinctive replacements, and the absent influences due to injuries in the forefront of which are the Brazilian player Igor Cornado, pointing out that Sharjah has recently found great difficulty even in overcoming teams that are technically lower than it, pointing out that the small teams depend on Defensive way and closed spaces, unlike the big teams pursuing open play style, stressing that Sharjah started the season with a strong start and beat the big teams like Al Ain and Al Wasl victory, topped the standings but fell significantly because of the way to play it supports. They told «Emirates Today»: «The current method adopted by the team has become useless and Sharjah will lose the great gains achieved in the past period if it continues to be applied during the remaining matches, whether in the local league or during the current team’s participation in the AFC Champions League for clubs that started the team His career in which he suffered a severe loss at home and in front of his fans in front of the Saudi Cooperation Team.

Sharjah started his career in the league with a victory over Khor Fakkan, Ittihad Kalba, Al Ain, Al Wasl and a tie with Hatta, then a victory over Fujairah and Al Jazeera and a tie with Baniyas, and he returned and won the victory and drew with Ajman before receiving the first loss against Al Dhafra in round 11, after which the team started the process of retreat in the results He was subjected to severe defeats against Al-Wahda and Al-Ahly youth in the first round, then in the second round he suffered the first loss against Khorfakkan bottom of the league teams.

Sharjah finished the first round of last season's league with 31 points, three points behind its closest competitor, Al-Jazira, as it won nine games and drew in four and did not lose in any games, scored 34 goals and received 15 goals, while Sharjah finished the first round in The current season league is in second place with 24 points, he won in seven games, drew in three and also lost in three games, scored 27 goals and conceded 17 goals, knowing that Sharjah started this season as the league leader but is currently in fifth place with 28 points, a difference of 8 points On behalf of Al-Ahly's youth. For his part, former national team coach Dr. Abdullah Misfer stressed that Sharjah was affected in the past period by instability on a fixed lineup due to the many absences witnessed by the team, whether due to injuries or the failure to attract a player who is able to compensate for the absence of the former striker and his Brazilian striker Wilton Suarez , Who moved to Al Wasl, as well as the absence of both Igor and Saif Rashid due to the injury, besides that some players such as the Uzbek Shukurov, Shaheen Abdul Rahman and Ryan Mendez were affected by their technical levels due to the injuries they suffered in the past period, pointing out that Sharjah was missing The last time his offensive identity, which he was known in the past and was the source of his strength, stressing that all these factors have affected a lot in the capabilities of Sharjah and made him retreat a lot compared to what he was his situation last season. Mesfer added: “The quality of the players who were with Sharjah were making the difference, but the team recently missed a lot of things, among them the advantage of the toy industry that Igor was playing, along with the top scorer represented in Suarez, and therefore this was reflected in the capabilities of the team, especially in Front line »

Mesfer stressed that adopting a style of pressure on competitors during the matches requires a skilled player and a strong defense.

Mesfer pointed out that the Sharjah squad last season was known, but the current season is unstable and is constantly changing, which led to the decline that the team has been witnessing in the recent period.

For his part, the former international player and legal adviser Salem Hadid stressed that with the beginning of the current season, Sharjah coach Abdulaziz Al-Anbari was adopting a method of putting pressure on the opponent at his stadium, and thus taking advantage of defensive mistakes that occur in scoring goals, especially in the first quarter of an hour, indicating that the percentage of goals that Sharjah scored it last season, which was high depending on the pressure style, and therefore the difference in goals between the then-leading Sharjah and the second-ranked Al Ain was great, indicating that after changing his style, the team began to back down and rely on rebound balls and follow the defense style From the middle of the pitch, which made him lose many points, as well as he gave the opportunity to other teams to beat him.

Salem Hadid explained: “The results of Sharjah since the beginning of the current season witnessed a lot of draws, as the team suffered in the league this season for the first loss against Al-Wasl 3-2, after which it started to decline due to the style of playing with relying on one striker without the presence of offensive support from the parties, especially After Igor's injury, ”stressing that Al-Anbari coach was very defensive, with only reliance on counter-attacks, as evidence that the team finds great difficulty in front of teams less than the level like Hatta and Al-Dhafra. For his part, former director of Al-Nasr team Khaled Obaid confirmed that the decline that occurred in Sharjah in the recent period was expected despite the fact that the team started a good start, and was the leader of the league, due to several factors, including that the great effort made by the players in the last season affected them a lot. Season, so the team needed to bench strong substitutes and rotate the players to maintain the team's performance. Khaled Obaid added: In my estimation, Sharjah does not play in a defensive manner but its players always think that they can reach at any moment the goal and score in the range of their competitors, especially in front of the big team, but with the passage of time the players begin to rush and lack focus, stressing that Sharjah has players on High level in the limbs, but now he misses an outright spear after he gave up his former player Ricard Gomez, who recently moved to Kalba on loan. Khalid Obaid pointed out that Sharjah achieves positive results for the big teams rather than the small ones because the big teams are adopting the open play style unlike the small teams that resort to the defensive method, and they close the spaces and thus Sharjah finds great difficulty when facing them.

Khalid Obaid said that he expects Sharjah to come back strongly at any moment because he has a good group of players, hoping that this return will not be too late.

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Sharjah score after round 16 of the Arab Gulf League, 8 points behind leaders Al-Ahly.