Al Ain team coach, Pedro Emmanuel, defended his goalkeeper, the international Khaled Issa, despite the mistake made by the latter before the end of the game that brought the leader with the Saudi victory, last Tuesday, and the team cost the 1-2 loss in the second round of the Champions League Asian Football.
"My confidence in Khaled is greater than ever," he said at a press conference. Football is a game of mistakes, and all the blame must not be placed on the best goalkeeper in the country at the present time. He added, “Khaled Issa is the best goalkeeper in the country, and he occupies the task of the primary guard of the Al Ain team and the national team, and football is basically a game of mistakes, I support Khaled is in these times, and my confidence in him is greater than ever, and we look forward to him to provide the best performance in the upcoming matches. ”
Khaled Issa tried to prevent the Al-Nasr striker, Moroccan Abdel-Razzaq Hamdallah, from reaching the ball near the corner flag, waiting for it to come out with a goal, but the Saudi team player managed to kidnap it and put it in the net, so that the violet team would suffer the second loss in the Asian Championship, after a clean quad against Iranian Sepahhan .
And about Al Ain’s match with Al Wasl in the President’s Cup, and his expectations that his team will easily qualify for the semi-finals, given the leader’s victory over him in the League’s five-time match, Emmanuel said that «the confrontation will be different from the league’s meeting, as this is a stand-alone tournament, and we have to forget that victory And to be in our full focus to play today, and I expect it to be a completely different match, so we have to prepare as required. ” On the pressure of the matches that his team was exposed to this February, due to the proximity of the Asian matches, and the rescheduling of its postponed match against Kalba Union last Friday, while in return the Al-Wasl team got more comfort, the Portuguese coach said that the "leader" made it one of the big clubs And he hopes that his players will not be affected as a result, acknowledging at the same time that due to the pressure of the matches, a number of his players have suffered injuries, and the team may lose them in the next games.
Pedro Emmanuel:
- Khaled Issa is the best goalkeeper in the country.
- "Al-Wasl's confrontation will be different from the league's meeting."