Athletes stressed that the ambition of the national team regarding the current participation in the double qualifying for the 2022 World Cup and the Asian Cup 2023 is unclear; because the Football Association did not specify from the beginning his goal of this participation, and whether he wants to qualify for the World Cup or build a strong team for the future, especially in the presence of 90 The Dutch coach Van Marwijk paid a youthful squad for the match against Thailand, with only experienced striker Ali Mabkhout, goalkeeper Khaled Issa and Omar Abdul Rahman returning from injury. Bumps and difficulties in a The final round of qualifying follows a 2-0 loss to Thailand at the Tamasat Stadium in Bangkok on Saturday.

The athletes told Emirates Today: 'It is assumed that there will be no exaggeration in involving young players, to the extent that the majority of the team becomes young players with only three experienced players, but in return the team is able to restore its balance if Marvik managed to To support the team with experienced players and return of injured players, as well as to address the errors that accompanied the match Thailand, especially in terms of defensive errors, and the divergence of lines, and the ineffectiveness of players based on Salman and Ahmed Berman, and support for the defense ».

The loss from Thailand has slipped the team from first place in the group to third place with six points, one point ahead of Thailand, who took the top of the group, while Vietnam came in second place with seven points, note that the qualification to the second stage From qualifying to the World Cup, only the leaders of the group win in each of the eight groups, along with the top four teams to get second place in all groups.

The UAE has tried to communicate with the president of the federation or the general secretary of the federation, the official spokesman, to get a response from the federation regarding the goal of the association's participation in these qualifiers, but it was not possible to get a response.

For his part, confirmed the former Assistant Secretary of the Football Federation, Imran Abdullah, that «there should have been from the beginning to determine the goals of the team to participate in these qualifiers, so that there is a clear vision for the national team, and do we want to build a new team through the inclusion of a majority `` Young players have no experience or qualify for the World Cup, and the National Teams Committee had to sit with coach Marvik and make a clear plan to implement them, '' pointing out that he does not blame the coach Marvik, describing him as an excellent coach but things are in the hands of the Football Association and the national team.

Omran Abdullah said: «There must be replacement and replacement in the team, provided that this is done gradually».

Omran Abdullah stressed that the team will exceed this stage of the qualifiers, but it remains before the important and final stage, which is the decisive stage that requires players with great experience, so the goals must be set very clearly.

The former youth coach Ali Ibrahim said that there is a contradiction by the Football Association, since he did not specify from the beginning his goal of the team's participation in these qualifiers until the street knows the truth of things, pointing out that 90% of the squad are new elements, considering that at the level The match between Thailand and the national team was in most of the game below the level, pointing out that there are six players, including the quadruple defense and pivot were most of the game out of service, pointing out that it is normal if so many players below the required level, the team will be Without ambition.

Ali Ibrahim said: `` There are no clear goals for the Football Association of the current team, and there are elements of the former team that participated in the 2019 Asian Cup can provide the required addition with the current team, 'wondering whether the current group in the team is the secretions of three rounds in "With respect to all players, they were not in full readiness," he said, pointing to the possibility of better elements in the league.

“We have not seen a clear statement from FA officials that they want to build a new team or qualify for the World Cup. If the FA is able to build a new team and at the same time qualify for the World Cup, why didn't it? "But he doesn't know what he wants."

He added: "For the defense there were many individual mistakes in the match against Thailand, and the players based on Salman and Ahmed Berman did not help my team back in the process of covering the required form, especially in the case of delay, and for the players Ibrahim and Ali Saleh did not have the required level."

He stressed that the team went to Thailand and did not have a clear goal whether he is going to win or wanted to draw, and continued: «There are individual mistakes caused the loss of the team, the first goal came from a mistake in the depth of defense, and the second error of the right side due to poor coverage ».

In turn, former Al Wasl coach Hassan Mohammed Bolu identified the mistakes made by the team during the match against Thailand, pointing out that the most notable represented in addition to the fact that most of the players in the squad did not have enough experience, in the divergence of lines and the loss of the midfield completely, allowing the opportunity for the Thai team To take possession of the midfield, saying that the team had a problem in the process of extraction of the ball, which gave the opponent more confidence in terms of preference and control of the game.

Regarding the absence of top scorer Ali Mabkhout from scoring goals in this match despite scoring five goals in two games, including two goals against Malaysia and three against Indonesia, Hassan Bolu stressed that «the spacing of the lines does not help the striker to get the balls, and we should not blame Mabkhout, Because the tools available during the game did not help him, especially since the formation of the team of young elements who lack experience, and coach Marvik had to hire experienced players such as Walid Abbas ».

He stressed that it is very important for the national team to win the games played at home if he wants to qualify, stressing the importance of the squad chosen by Marvik homogeneous between the big and young players.

In turn, the coach of the Sharjah Rediff team, former Olympic team coach Abdul Majid Al-Nimr, said that the team suffered a great loss against Thailand, saying that he should have come out with a draw at least in order to keep White on top of the group, pointing out that there was an exaggeration in the involvement of players The little ones.

"We had to have junior players with a group of experienced players and not all young players, so I felt the Olympic team was playing this game," he added.

Mesfer: White suffers a problem in the defense system

The former national team coach, Dr. Abdullah Mesfer, that the most prominent mistakes that accompanied the performance of the team against Thailand were in the defense system and some individual mistakes, pointing out that if the team wants to qualify for the World Cup, he must outperform these teams, pointing out that the team has the ability to return If the mistakes are corrected, he believes that the loss suffered by the team against Thailand can be compensated in the next game against Vietnam.

"Although the team did not attack a lot during the game, when they started attacking, it created a problem for the Thai national team, and I think the team was too late to make changes during the game," Mesfer said.