A heavy-duty confrontation in the fifth round of the League

A coincidence raises the spirits of Sharjah on the island

Sharjah looks forward to its fifth successive victory.

Photography: Osama Abu Ghanem

Al-Jazeera faces a heavy-duty confrontation when the defending champion hosts Sharjah, at nine o'clock at the Mohammed bin Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi, in the fifth round of the Arabian Gulf League, as the “king” enters the meeting, motivated by a “coincidence and a knot” that makes the team more willing to win and reap the mark. Full, and continue to top the league table.

The coincidence highlights that the last confrontation between the two teams was held on the same day that today's match will take place, when Sharjah defeated Al-Jazira with two goals without response, scored by the Uzbek Otabek Chukurov and Muhammad Al-Shehhi on November 7, 2019, at Mohammed bin Zayed Stadium in the first leg of the tournament, but In the seventh round of the competition.

On the other hand, Sharjah bets on the "knot" that he caused to the Al-Jazira team in the recent period, after the "king" had excelled in the past matches that brought the two teams together, as Sharjah won in the last three matches, by winning with an unanswered goal in the price of the President's Cup final in December. 2018, winning 3-2 in March 2019, and finally winning 2-0 in November 2019.

Sharjah enters the meeting with high spirits, especially after the team’s wonderful start in the league, by defeating Fujairah, Al-Wehda, Al-Ain and Al-Dhafra, as facing Al-Jazeera is considered a new test for "the king" towards the path to preserving the title.

For his part, Al-Jazira hopes to achieve a victory that gives the team an important moral boost to confirm that “Abu Dhabi's pride” is able to compete in the league title, especially since the team started the season in a negative way with a draw with both Al-Nasr and Al-Dhafra, before the team's performance improved and achieved a victory over Both the Kalba Federation and Bani Yas.

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