Marvik: From my point of view, the UAE team beat Iraq 3-2

The coach of the Emirates national football team, Dutch Marvik, said in response to the state of anger and frustration that the public had over the coach and the team’s players, after the draw with Iraq yesterday in the fourth round of the Asian qualifiers for the 2022 World Cup, with a score of 2-2, that this is a normal situation when losing, Everyone can express their opinions and feelings but he does his job as a coach.

In the press conference, the coach considered that: From my point of view, the team defeated Iraq 3-2.

He said that the ball kicked by the player Khalfan Mubarak crossed the goal line, but the Japanese referee Sato did not calculate the goal, indicating that his failure to involve Tigali from the beginning was a technical decision by him, so that he would not play with two attackers, at the expense of a midfielder.

Marvik said: "When I joined Tigali, I changed the way we play, and this is something we won't be able to continue for long."

He added, "If Mabkhout succeeded in scoring from the chances that he had, the team would have won."

He stressed that the team started the match properly and succeeded in scoring the goal of progress, but the weakness that was in the midfield helped the Iraqi team launch attacks, especially in light of some wrong passes by some players.

Marvik continued: I went after the end of the match, to see the pictures of the last goal scored by Khalfan Mubarak, and I saw that the ball crossed the match line completely, but despite that, the referee did not calculate the goal and the technique must be better used by the referees, especially since we are in the year 2021. .

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