Shabab Al-Ahly's international team, Ahmed Khalil, raised his score from the scored goals from the penalty kicks to five out of nine he scored in the current season, equal in the first place with the Al-Wahda team striker, Sebastian Tigali, as the most scored from the penalty, but in contrast, the player's goals Recorded without penalty kicks fell to four, compared to the entire last season, in which he scored 11 goals, raising the alarm about the player's goal balance.
Khalil - who participated in the Baniyas meeting, the day before yesterday, in the 17th round of the Arab Gulf League, from the beginning to the end, in a participation considered rare - was able to lead his team to achieve an important victory that ended the series of negative results in February, and his goal came from A penalty kick, which was repeated in the third game in a row, after two goals in Sharjah and one in Al Ain.
According to the League League statistic, Khalil participated in 14 games (eight basic), and scored five goals from the penalty point out of nine, eight of them on the right foot and only one on the left in 19 attempts on goal, and it was noticeable that "the brown gazelle" did not score any of His four goals are fixed kicks as usual.
It was also remarkable that Khalil did not miss any penalty out of seven kicks that were calculated for his team, as he sponsored five, while his Brazilian teammate Leonardo lost one in front of the unit, and scored like her in the net of Kalba Union, and out of Khalil’s five goals were three critical kicks, and his team was awarded points Al Kamilah, as it scored two in the Sharjah nets (ended 3-2), and in the goal of Bani Yas (1-0). He advanced to seventh in the list of scorers, five goals behind the leader of Al Ain, the Togolese international Laba Kudjo.
For his part, Al-Ahly youth team striker admitted in a press statement: “I am not in my best condition right now, and the matches that I participated in recently did not reach my level known to me, because of my suffering the injury that kept me away in previous rounds,” but he stressed that the current difficult period that His team passes by, only interested in winning and maintaining the lead.
He continued: "The situation at the present time is difficult and needs more focus from us. As for me, I was absent after the Al-Jazira match due to the injury and even the matches I played after were not fully prepared, but I will work to return to normal soon."
The player acknowledged that crowning the league title requires more work and diligence more, and said: «We must continue to move forward in the lead, this is the last tournament we compete for after we left all the local tournaments, and we have to review ourselves until we return to normal, it is true that each team "It is going through such difficult times, but it is good that things are still in our hands, and we must not stumble in the next rounds."
Khalil's goals in the league compared to the previous two seasons
2019/2020: nine goals
(Five penalties).
2018/2019: 11 goals.
2017/2018: Four goals.
The goals of the league players from penalty kicks
Ahmed Khalil: 5
Sebastian Tigali: 5
Ryan Mendes: 3
Vander Vieira: 3
Gogak (with Kalba): 3
Ali Mabkhout: 2
Lapa Kudjo: 2
Schaefer blames wasted opportunities
The Bani Yas coach, German Singer Schaefer, expressed his deep dissatisfaction because of the "wasted opportunities from his team that reached six" as he put it, and he said in the press conference: "We played the match well, and I think we could have won, but we suffered in front of the opposing team's goal due to a waste Opportunities ».
Diego: Al Ahly youth regained confidence
"The team regained confidence after a series of unsatisfactory results in the last period," continued Argentine youth assistant coach Diego Marquek, who attended the conference instead of coach Arubarina, and continued: "We were finally affected by the injuries, which made us not settle into a fixed squad, which We lost harmony, but before Baniyas we regained the confidence needed. ”