He confirmed that "Al-Abyad" is only thinking of winning over Vietnam

Tigali: The team's qualification to the third stage is more important than scoring goals

• Tigali scored his first goal with the national team against Indonesia.

  Photography: Osama Abu Ghanem

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Al-Nasr and the national team player, Sebastian Tigali, expressed his happiness for scoring his first official goal with "Al-Abyad", after he scored the team's fifth goal against Indonesia, in the meeting that brought the two teams together last Friday, and ended with the victory of "Al-Abyad" with five goals without a response in the double qualifiers. Qualifying for the 2022 World Cup and the 2023 Asian Cup, pointing out that despite his great happiness in scoring his first goal with the national team, "Al-Abyad"'s qualification to the third stage of the World Cup qualifiers is more important to him than his goals.

Tigali told "Emirates Today": "The team's next match against Vietnam is the most important at the moment," explaining: "We achieved the most important in the past three matches by defeating Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia, while tomorrow we will play the most important match in the qualifiers against Vietnam, especially It will determine the team that will top the list of Group G, and qualify directly for the decisive stage of the 2022 World Cup qualifiers.”

He added, "The confrontation against Vietnam will be difficult, especially since the opponent is presenting good levels in the second stage of the qualifiers, and leads the standings of Group G, and there is no doubt that this match requires more focus from the team's players, compared to the previous matches, because the meeting will be in front of the direct competitor on At the top of the group, in addition to the fact that the Vietnam team has two chances to get first place, which is a draw or win, while the UAE plays for only one goal, which is to win.”

He pointed out that the team is not thinking about qualifying accounts, by obtaining second place in Group Seven, and said: “We cannot enter the match against Vietnam while we are thinking about the possibility of qualifying for the third stage of the qualifiers, by (Al-Abyad) in second place, because The calculations are complicated for the top five teams who will take second place, so our thinking and focus is only to beat Vietnam and get first place, so that we avoid any other calculations that may not be in our interest.”

Tigali spoke about the team's return in the three matches that the team played in the second leg of the qualifiers, and said: "I see that the team appeared very well, especially since the team was in a difficult situation because of the results it achieved in the first leg, which contributed to the team's loss of many From the points, while he played the second leg, and there is no other option than to win the four matches that we will play.”

He continued: "The level of the players is on the rise, and we beat Malaysia with four goals without a response, and despite that, the match was difficult, and we scored three goals in the last minutes of the match, and the same thing was repeated against Thailand after the result remained suspended until the last minutes of the match, before the match was over." The team scored the third goal and guaranteed victory, while (Al-Abyad) dealt well with the Indonesia match, and achieved an important victory with five goals without a response, before playing the most important match against Vietnam.

In response to a question about his lack of participation in coach Bert van Marwijk’s starting lineup, and the impact of this on his desire to shine with the national team and score goals, he said: “Playing in the national team is different from clubs, and the competition is strong between a large number of players, and for me, I certainly hope to participate mainly.” , but at the same time I respect the coach’s vision, and the most important thing for all of us is that (Al-Abyad) achieve victories, and that the team qualifies for the third stage of the World Cup qualifiers, which is more important than my basic participation and my achievement of goals, while for my part I am ready to participate in Anytime the coach asks me to, I will do everything in my power to help the team win.”

Public attendance has a huge positive effect

Tigali praised the fans of the UAE national team, and said: “We are very happy with the return of the fans to the stands, and there is no doubt that they have a great positive impact on the players, especially since we played the matches last season without the presence of the audience due to the impact of the Corona virus pandemic, and we hope that we will be successful. In achieving victory over Vietnam, in order to delight the fans, who have a great role in the positive results achieved by the team in the past matches.”

• "The confrontation against Vietnam will be difficult, especially since the opponent is presenting good levels."

• «The national team does not think about qualifying, by getting second place».

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