The excitement is absent from the first round
Ambiguity about the level of teams before the start of the “ADNOC” league.. and surprises are possible
Al-Jazira was crowned the league champion last season.
Photography: Eric Arrasas
Khaled Obaid: "The first round will be an opportunity to get to know all the teams and the level of the players, after periods of preparation of varying strength."
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The ADNOC Professional League will start tomorrow, as the first round will be held on Thursday and Friday with ambiguous meetings and unclear positions for the league teams, due to the absence of external preparation periods like last year, and it is expected that the season will be full due to the international links of the national team and the Asian participations of the leading teams, which makes The season is long, with expectations of new surprises emerging in the tournament, as happened last season. The Al Jazira and Baniyas teams surprised everyone by being at the forefront of the league championship, before the "Pride of Abu Dhabi" decided the title in his favour.
The league starts away from excitement, as strong matches or El Clasico are absent from the first round, to impose the Bani Yas match with Al Wasl itself as one of the strongest matches of the round, in addition to the derby of the smiling emirate between Sharjah and the Kalba Union, especially after the distinguished level on which the Kalba and Baniyas Union appeared in Last season, in addition to the size of the deals concluded by the Kalba Union and the quality of Sharjah deals, amid anticipation of what the two teams will appear after this number of deals, both quantitatively and qualitatively.
Three matches will be held on Thursday, and the newcomer will bring together the Emirates team with Al-Ahly youth, and Al-Uruba with Al-Wahda, while the Ajman team will host Brigadier General Al-Nasrawi. And Baniyas with Al Wasl.
Four matches will be played at 19:15, i.e. after Maghrib prayer, due to the high temperature, while the other three matches will be played at 21:30 pm, which means the end of the matches near 12 at midnight, which the Professional League was forced to do, for the necessity of starting The season was early due to the national team’s commitments and its two matches on September 1 and 6 at the start of its campaign in the final stage of qualifying for the 2022 World Cup.
For his part, technical analyst Khaled Obeid confirmed that the first round matches are ambiguous due to the unannounced preparation periods and the friendly matches from which we did not see anything, and all of them are internal, with the exception of some teams that set up external camps.
He told "Emirates Today": "There are no strong confrontations between the leading teams in the first round, which will be an opportunity to get to know all the teams and the level of players after periods of preparation of varying strength, which means waiting for the island to appear at the level of last season, the return of the leader, and to ensure the strength of Al-Ahly youth, with the presence of Amouri and the return of Ahmed Khalil, all of which will become clear in the first round matches.”
The Emirati fans, who will be present at 60% of the matches according to the association’s recent decision, are waiting for more than one surprise to appear in the league championship and the first round to answer many questions, perhaps the most prominent of which will be a number of points, namely:
Amouri's return
Amouri's first appearance after a long absence will be the event expected by the fans, as his return is a great gain for Emirati football, and he will appear with the Al-Ahly youth and under the leadership of the coach who made his glories with the national team, Captain Mahdi Ali.
Al-Ainawy's leader
Will Al-Aynaoui return after a season of oblivion in which the team did not achieve anything, and is looking to return to its natural place in the lead, or will there be new crises facing the team and its angry fans because of the level it presented and the way it appeared last season?
Island Challenge
Last season, Al Jazira refused to sign four foreign players and started with two before adding the third in the middle of the season, and this season the four foreigners completed, so will the team succeed in being present and competing in the same way, or will there be another level?
Sharjah without Uighurs
Sharjah will appear for the first time after three seasons without its Brazilian player Igor Cornado, who left for the Saudi League, but he succeeded in making high-caliber deals at the level of foreigners, which is what the public is currently looking for. competition whether or not?
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