Al-Jazira Club returned to the competition for the Arab Gulf League title, after it beat Al-Ain by three goals to one, last Saturday in the 19th round of the Arab Gulf League, as "Abu Fakhr" maintained a difference of points with the leader of Al-Ahly youth, who reached seven points, and witnessed The match is the return of the Brazilian Marcos Keno to the net, where he scored the second goal for the island, after the absence of 18 consecutive rounds in which the loaned player from the Egyptian Pyramids team did not score any goals.
Keno opened his career with Al-Jazeera by scoring a goal in his first match with the team in the first round of the Arab Gulf League, in Al Dhafra goal in the meeting that ended with the victory of "Abu Fakhr" with two goals without reply, before returning in the 19th round to score the second goal in Al Ain goal.
The irony is that Marcus Kino scored two goals, the outcome of foreign players with Al-Jazira in the Arab Gulf League, which is a very weak record, compared to the quality of the deals concluded by the Algerian football company at the beginning of the season, with the contract with Kino and Moroccan Murad Patna, South African Thalani Sirero and Serbian Milos Kusanovic.
Al-Jazira is the country with the lowest rate of scoring goals for the teams competing for the league title, as it scored 29 goals in 19 rounds, Ali Mabkhout's share of them was 13 goals, while Al-Ahly youth team scored 41 goals, Al-Ain 46 goals, Sharjah 38 goals, and unity 33 Aim.
On the other hand, Sharjah is the most benefiting from foreign players, as the number of goals scored by the "king" reached 38 goals, the share of foreigners reached 32 goals, with a percentage of more than 85%, 11 goals for Ryan Mendes, seven goals for Igor Kornado, and six goals for Ricardo Gomez before His departure, three goals by Shukurov, two goals by Caio and Meloni, and one scored by Luan Pereira.
The numbers of foreign players with Al-Jazeera witnessed a big decline, especially since the Brazilian Keno missed seven games due to injury, and scored two goals in 12 games he participated in the league, while the Moroccan Murad Patna played 11 games and did not score any goals, and he missed eight games due to injury also, in contrast South African Tholani Serero is considered the most prominent foreign player in the "pride of Abu Dhabi" through the great role he plays in leading the team's field, as he participated in 16 games, and is one of the main elements in the Dutch coach Marcel Kaiser's lineup, while Serbian Milos Kusanovic contributed to the solutions The island is in second place In the list of the most powerful line of defense to enter the league goal team 17 goals, while Al-Ahli youth tops the list to enter conceding 13 goals as Coovic participated in all games island league.
Although in practice it is not required of Serero and Kusanovic to score goals, but through the significant decline in the rate of goals achieved by "the pride of Abu Dhabi" it becomes clear that the team needed foreign players more effective in leading the attack line, especially since the 19 rounds saw the island not achieving any goals In five games.
Reza Burawi: Al-Jazeera was wrong to contract Patna
The analyst at Abu Dhabi Sports Channel, Reza Burawi, said that Al Jazeera did not benefit from its contracts at the level of foreign players, pointing out that "the pride of Abu Dhabi" was wrong to include Moroccan Murad Patna, stressing that the former Al Wahda player did not provide any addition to the team.
Burawi told «Emirates Today» that «Patna is completely absent from providing any addition to the island, while Brazilian Marcus Keno contracted with him according to his good performance in the Egyptian League, but I see that he did not adapt to the team and the way to play in the Arab Gulf League».
He added: "I think that the South African Serero is the best for the foreign players in the team, as he is doing a great job in the midfield, and that the Serbian Milos Kusanovic is very clear in terms of leading the defense line that includes young players such as Khalifa Al Hammadi and Mohamed Al Attas."
He pointed out that the Dutch coach, Marcel Kaiser, bears part of the decline in the payoff of the island at the attack level, explaining: “Kaiser depends heavily on the participation of three players in the midfield, which weakens the team’s effectiveness in the attack, while changing the form of performance in the Al-Jazira and Al-Ain match, "When he only played with two midfielders."