Saudi dialogue between Al-Nasr and Al-Ahly on the semi-final card of the Asian Champions Tomorrow

The Saudi victory clashes with its fellow Al-Ahly in a heavy-duty confrontation, tomorrow in Doha, in the first match of the AFC Champions League quarter-finals in football.

Victory, summer 1995, was specially prepared in sympathy for the qualitative deals concluded by his administration, as he enters the match with the same elements that participated in the last match in front of his fellow countryman, Taawon.

His Portuguese coach, Roy Vitoria, said in a press statement: "The match will be difficult. We are aware of this because we played against Al-Ahly in the Saudi League, and we know their abilities well."

He added, "Al-Ahly played two more games in the round of sixteen, but at the same time they got an extra day of rest compared to us. This extra day in this type of competition is of great importance, and despite that we are ready."

Al-Nasr topped its fourth group with 11 points from three wins, two draws and a loss, which was in its last match in the second row.

Then he overcame cooperation with a goal in the final price tag, signed by his brilliant striker and the top scorer (6), Moroccan Abd al-Razzaq Hamdallah.

Hamdallah, 29, joined Al-Nassr in 2018 and led him to the league title, where he topped the scorers' list with a record number of 35 goals.

In the following season, he also kept the top scorer title (29 goals).

While Al-Ahly topped its first group with 6 points, collected from four matches, where it won two matches and lost in two others.

In the final price, he succeeded in overcoming the hurdle of Shabab Al-Ahly Dubai of the United Arab Emirates with a penalty shootout 4-3 after a 1-1 draw in the original and overtime times.

Al-Ahly, the runners-up in the championship in 1986 and 2012, aspires to surpass its strong opponent and appear in a different way than it was in its past matches, during which it was not at its best and during which it suffered two consecutive defeats, before the penalty shootout smiled at Al-Ahly youth.

His Serbian coach Vladan Miloevic said in a press statement, "I did not prefer any team to face it before the draw because all the teams are strong, but the result of the draw was exciting because we will face a Saudi team."

He continued, "Al-Nasr is a very good team, and we certainly respect it but do not fear it. We came here to do the best we can, and for this we will fight and play and then wait for what happens."

"My philosophy is to prepare the team to face any opponent in the same way," he added. "We will deal with this match in the same way we deal with any other match."

The last match between the two teams in the league ended in a 2-2 draw.

This is the first confrontation between the two teams in the Champions League and the third at the level of the thirty foreign participations in the knockout matches.

The two teams met in 29 matches, including 13 in the King's Cup, 7 in the Crown Prince Cup, 4 in the Prince Faisal bin Fahd Cup, 3 in the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Cup League, and 2 in the Gulf Clubs Championship, and the confrontations ended with victory in 12 matches and Al-Ahly in 17 games. .

In the second match, Pakhtakor, who is in the quarter-finals for the first time since 2009 after he reached the semi-finals in 2003 and 2004, meets a new Iranian opponent, Persepolis, after defeating the two-time defending champion of Tehran's Independence 2-1 in the final price.

As for Persepolis, the 2018 summer runners-up, he overcame the Qatari champion Al-Sadd in 1989 and 2011 by 1-0 in the final minutes.

The video assistant referee system appears in the quarter-finals, for the first time in the Asian club competitions, after its adoption at the level of the teams in the AFC U-23 Championship 2020 in Thailand in all its matches, after the first appearance of this system as of the quarter-finals of the 2019 Asian Cup in the UAE .

The system is limited to four cases only, which are the calculation of goals, penalties, direct red cards, and a mistake in identifying the player.

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