Khaled Obaid: The players are hungry to play ... and the fans confirm:

The weak team preparations caused the scoring abundance at the opening of the league

Al Wahda beat Hatta 6-0, recording the highest score in the first round.

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The Arab Gulf League championship returned to life after an absence of seven months, and the first round witnessed a scoring profusion, as the teams scored 29 goals in seven rounds, indicating a defect in the defense system of the teams and weak preparations for the season as a result of weak friction during the past period, which forced the teams Due to the measures taken to limit the spread of the Coronavirus, the team must prepare for three months, starting from last July.

The features of the level of the teams are not clear until now due to the variation in the preparation periods between the clubs, there are those who played more than 10 friendly matches before the start of the league, and there are those who played only three matches, but the enthusiasm and the rush to attack at the expense of the defensive side dominated the first round. Solitude and seriousness in the matches, with 23 yellow cards and three expulsions.

"Emirates Today" monitored a question about the public’s opinion about the start of the league and its scoring abundance by asking a question on the social networking site “Twitter”: “We shared the opinion ... What is the reason for the goal of the Arab Gulf League’s launch after a hiatus of nearly 7 months?”

Four answers were drawn up: poor team preparations, defenders 'lack of experience, coaches' mistakes, and interest in offensive deals.

During the voting, 45.7% of the 220 respondents chose "weak team preparations", "interest in offensive deals" came second with 25.1%, then "defenders' lack of experience" 21.7%, and "coach errors" 7.4%.

For his part, former Al-Nasr team manager and technical analyst Khaled Obaid indicated that the situation in which the teams appeared in the first round was due to the players' thirst for football and their rush to attack, and this came at the expense of defensive insurance, which caused a large number of goals In the first minutes of matches.

Khaled Obaid told Emirates Today: “For the first time, we are witnessing a breakthrough with this goal-scoring abundance, and from my point of view there are several factors for the large number of goals, including that the players are hungry to play, and there are also some teams that have succeeded in scoring early because of the lack of an exaggerated defense reservation In it by the teams at the beginning of the launch, their confidence in victory, poor coverage, absence of proper positioning, and offensive rush to win.

He added, "In some matches, we saw a good spread and speed in building the attack, and the players’ insistence on increasing the goals to expand the difference in order to play comfortably, and on the other hand, expanding the goal difference to preserve victory, unlike the clubs that lost and whose attempts were unsuccessful. "

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