The team’s results were ravaged ... and young faces are the only gain
The cold December winds do not blow on the eye with the breeze of the «World Cup»
Al Ain continues its negative results series and tied with Ajman in the league.
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Pedro Emmanuel: “Personally, I am proud of the performance of the young players, and we congratulate them on their level.”
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The series of disappointing and declining results for the Al Ain team continued during the month of December by falling into a negative draw against Ajman, the day before yesterday, in the Arab Gulf League, preceded by the broad defeat against Bani Yas 1-4 in the league, and the exit from the President's Cup competition against Ajman also 0-1 Thus, the "leader" lost the opportunity to correct the course of the season, which coincided with the entry of the month of December every year over the past years.
The statistics of the Al Ain matches that he fought in December during the past five seasons starting in 2015 show that Al-Zaeem is at his peak in terms of results in the coldest month of the year. In December 2015, he played four matches, in which he won, all of them. In 2016, he played seven games, won five and drew two games, while in 2017, he played five matches, three decisive in his favor, and suffered two losses.
In December of 2018, "Al-Zaeem" wrote a new chapter in its history, as he fought seven pressured matches, winning four matches and tied on three occasions, including victory over Oceania champion Team Wellington, New Zealand, and African continent champion, Tunisian club Esperance, and in The confrontation of the Latin American champion, the Argentine River Plate, continued its results in December 2019, when it played six confrontations, winning four, drawing one game and losing the same.
The fans of the Al Ain team were waiting for the month of December to see the team return to the right path, after wasting a number of points in the league competition and leaving the Arab Gulf Cup in a state of confidence among those fans that the month of December fixes what spoils other months, similar to what happened in the year 2018, when their team made a historic comeback with impressive results in the Club World Cup that led them to the FIFA Club World Cup Final.
The month of December of the current year is witnessing a decline in the team’s results, as it has not yet achieved victory after having played three matches, losing in two confrontations and drawing in one, while it still has three difficult matches against Al Nasr, Kalba and Al Jazira, but the only gain from the three matches is that it witnessed the participation of young faces At the expense of the old guard.
Al Ain team coach, Portuguese Pedro Emmanuel, admitted that there was a state of frustration in the dressing room because of what the team had achieved, stressing that he would work on analyzing the performance presented by the team in the Ajman match that took place the day before yesterday and ended with a goalless draw, pointing at the same time That he was happy with the level that his young players presented during the two halves of the match, despite the result that the confrontation ended with.
Regarding the young faces that became involved with the team’s entry for the month of December, the coach said in the press conference, after the Ajman meeting, that when he was in the bench, he was as if he was watching the reserve team because of the absences that his squad witnessed for various reasons, such as the Togolese striker Laba Kodjo, Mohamed Abdel Rahman and Kayo Kanidu, Muhammad Shakir and Kazakh, Islam Khan.
The Portuguese coach added: “We should congratulate the young players who performed well, such as Khaled Al Balushi and Brazilian Eric, as well as those who participated in the second half, such as Mohamed Awadallah.
In the end, we prepared five to six chances over the course of half, but we did not score, and when your chances in front of the goal are not translated into goals, you do not deserve to win the outcome of the match. Personally, I am proud of the performance of the young players, and we congratulate them on their level.
Al Ain in December the last 5 years:
December 2015: 4 wins.
December 2016: 5 wins and 2 draws.
December 2017: 3 wins, 2 losses.
December 2018: 4 wins and 3 draws. “They reached the World Cup Final.”
December 2019: 4 wins, 1 draw, 1 loss.
December 2020: 2 losses and 1 draw.
Al Ain matches this December:
December 1: He lost to Baniyas 1-4.
December 5: He lost to Ajman 0-1.
December 10: 0-0 against Ajman.
December 18th: Face Al Nassr in Dubai.
December 26th: The Kalba Federation is hosted in Al Ain.
December 31: Receives the island in Al Ain.
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