Mabkhout scored a "hat-trick", one of them with a creative touch

The national team charms India at the "Goals Festival"

The stars of the national team salute Mabkhout, "the man of the match."

Photography: Osama Abu Ghanem

The national football team achieved a great moral victory over its Indian counterpart, with six clean goals, yesterday, at Zabeel Stadium in Al Wasl Club in Dubai, as part of the teams' preparations for the joint qualifiers for the 2022 World Cup and the 2023 Asian Cup. He leaves the field in the second half.

During the match, the national team players put a picture of the late Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum on their shirts.

Although the experience was not at the required level because it came in front of a modest team, it gave the Dutch coach Van Marwijk the opportunity to stand on the levels of his players.

Marvik tested, during the match, the line-up, and the game plan that he will adopt during the official matches in the World Cup qualifiers.

The goals of the national team were scored over the two halves of the match by: Ali Mabkhout (hat-trick), the first of which was in the "12th" minute of a deceptive magic touch that he fired smartly into the goal the moment the goalkeeper came out of his goal, and the referee resorted to the technique of "mouse" to verify the correctness of the goal. The second goal from the penalty kick «32», before he also hit the third goal ball «58», while player Khalil Al Hammadi scored the fourth goal «64», and the fifth goal Fabio de Lima scored «71», and the substitute player Tigali added the sixth goal «84 ».

The match was technically modest, and it appeared from one side, the national team, while the Indian team was absent for most of the match, as its players did not reach goalkeeper Ali Khasif's goal in most of the match.

The national team controlled the course of the match by spreading out on the field, while the Indian team relied on counter-attacks without posing any real danger to goalkeeper Ali Khasif.

The performance of the national team in most of the two halves of the match was dominated by an offensive character, taking advantage of the absence of pressure on his region by the Indian national team, which gave him the opportunity to advance and the offensive initiative.

The team played the match with a squad that included goalkeeper Ali Khasif, and in defense Shaheen Abdel Rahman, Walid Abbas, Bandar Al Ahbabi and Mahmoud Khamis, and in the middle Abdullah Ramadan, Ali Salmine, Fabio de Lima and Khalil Al Hammadi, and in the front line Khalfan Mubarak and Ali Mabkhout.

The coach of the national team gave the opportunity to a number of his players in the second half, with the entry of: Tahnoun Al Zaabi, Mohammed Jumaa, Tigali and Majid Hassan.

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