Fujairah hosts Al-Ahly youth and his eye on stopping the bleeding

Mahdi Ali appears in the technical area after a 964-day absence

Fujairah Team welcomes its guest, Shabab Al-Ahly, at 6 pm today, at Fujairah International Stadium within the tenth round of the Gulf Arab Football League.

The match will witness the return of the coach of the national team and former Al-Ahly youth, Mahdi Ali, to the technical area as coach of the "Dubai Knights" to succeed the Spanish coach, Gerard Zaragoza, 964 days after his last day he appeared with Shabab Al-Ahly in the Arab Gulf League, in the match that ended Al Wasl won with a clean goal.

Fujairah has four points in 12th place, compared to 14 points for Shabab Al-Ahly in seventh place.

The match is characterized by the importance of its points for the two teams, as Fujairah looks forward to achieving its second victory in the current season, after its only victory over Hatta with a clean goal, and to stopping a series of defeats in the past three rounds that it lost to Al Wasl, Al Jazira and Al Nasr, in the fourth difficult match for the wolves that comes against the teams competing for Advance centers.

Four important players will be absent from Fujairah: their loaned players from Shabab Al-Ahly, Brazilian Alvaro Olivier and Hamdan Nasser, in addition to the Dutchman Roly Nunata and Bilal Youssef for injury.

Fujairah coach, Serbian Goran Tovtitzdic, believes that the circumstance that the team is going through does not allow it to lose points, so it will play only to win.

On the other hand, Mahdi Ali is looking to restore his team's tone of victories to catch up with the teams competing for the League Shield, which means that he will not be able to bleed any point.

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