Al Ain receives at the 18:40 pm today, the Uzbek Bunyodkor team at the Hazza Bin Zayed Stadium, as part of the qualifying supplement for the AFC Champions League groups, in a meeting that will be a mistake for the “leader”, as he enters the confrontation with the motives of winning only for the sake of He finds a foothold in Group D, next to the Saudi Al-Nasr Clubs, the Iranian Sphan, and the Qatari Dam.
The task of the “leader” will not be easy at all in today's meeting, especially since his opponent managed to qualify for this stage after he tied up the Iraqi team of Al-Zawra with four goals against a goal, which would make Al-Ain players required to play the match with great caution with the balance between attack and defense and not Leave the spaces in the middle of the field for their opponent to control the lead.
The players, the technical staff and the board of directors realize that the loss in the meeting will mean the end of the Asian "leader" season early and for the first time, and that the exit can affect the local career, especially in the presence of an eight-point difference between him and Al-Ahly youth, who are at the top of the Arab Gulf League ranking.
The Al Ain team emphasized its heights over the Uzbek Bunyodkor team, as it had previously won it in the two meetings they gathered in the 2017 edition during the group stage stage, as Al-Zaeem won back in Tashkent 3-2, and repeated the victory in the Hazza Stadium with three clean goals, but that will not It will be sufficient in today's meeting due to the great change that occurred in the Uzbek team after reconstituting the team with a group of contracts.
Al-Ain regained some of its luster in its last game that brought it to Khorfakkan, who finished last in the league standings table and won by three clean goals by the Togolese goalscorer Laba Kudjo, but what is most concerned for the fans are the poor results of the team that he achieved in the recent period, since his great victory over Al-Rayyan 4 -1 In the group stage of the 2018 edition, the "leader" did not achieve any victory despite playing eight games.
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