The quarter-finals of the President's Cup were the lowest in five seasons, with only nine goals in four matches.

Al Wasl, Al-Ahli, Al-Dhafra and Sharjah clubs booked their seats in the Golden Square after Al-Ahly defeated Al-Nasr on penalty shootout after a 1-1 draw. Al-Fujairah tied 2-0. Al-Dhafra defeated Al-Dafra, 1 after the game extended to extra time.

The 2013-2014 season saw 16 goals, 2014-2015 (13 goals), 2015-2016 (20 goals), the same number of goals achieved in the 2016-2017 season, while last season scored 11 goals for the current season with nine fewer goals Just.

"What happened in the quarter-finals of the President's Cup is normal because of the absence of the game maker in all the league teams, not just the quarter-finals," said Salem Rabi, a sports analyst and former Al-Nasr player. In a big gap between the lines of defense and attack in teams led to the lack of access to the ball to the attackers, and therefore a few goals, and the Sharjah team has suffered in the last few matches of the lack of goals and win hard because of the departure of the Brazilian playmaker Igor from the level he appeared in the first round.

"In previous seasons there was Al Ain star Omar Abdulrahman, former Al Ahli player, Brazilian Ribeiro, while player Ismael Matar, Habib Al Fardan and other international players reached a great age now. These players had a prominent role with their teams in reaching the goal easily , But now the situation is different with the teams that suffered from the absence of the playmaker and went to contract with the attackers and wings of foreigners, which affected the team a lot.

He continued: «UAE teams now and even the national team is two parts: the first defense and the second attack, and there is no player capable of transferring attacks from the defense to the center as did Omar Abdel Rahman, Ismail Matar, Amer Abdulrahman, Habib Fardan, Brazilian Ribeiro, and all these The season is either infected or moved to another league or reached the stage of age does not qualify him to play this role now, which affected the teams of the competition as well as the national team ».

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