Khorfakkan challenges Al-Wasl..a difficult task for Al-Jazeera and Al-Wahda

4 confrontations in the cup today, most notably “The Brigadier General” and “The Leader”

Al-Nasr and Al-Ain matches are always characterized by competition.

Photography: Eric Arrasas

Today, four matches will be held in the 16th round of the President's Cup. Khorfakkan will host Al-Wasl at 16:45 at Saqr bin Muhammad Al Qasimi Stadium, while Al-Jazira will host Al-Uruba at 16:50 at Mohammed bin Zayed Stadium, and Al-Wahda will receive Ajman at 19:45 at Professor Al Nahyan, and the fourth match will bring together Al Nasr and Al Ain at 19:45 at Al Maktoum Stadium. Zayed in the league championship.

Al-Nasr had played a difficult match against Al-Wahda in the first leg of the Professional League Cup, and it ended in a goalless draw, so the team is looking for compensation in today's match. Achieving the win in the League Cup quarter-finals, and tied at home to Al Wasl 3-3.

In another match, Ajman seeks to return the debt to Al-Wahda, and Al-Orange suffered a great loss at the hands of Al-Annabi two months ago, when he received a big defeat by three in the tenth round of the ADNOC League.

Ajman met with Al Wahda on three occasions during that stage of the President's Cup competition, all of which ended in favor of Al Annabi.

Orange hopes to take advantage of the good condition it is in this season, return from Abu Dhabi with a ticket to qualify for the quarter-finals, and continue its glow in all local competitions.

Ajman will use the return of the Tunisian quintet, Firas Belarabi, Slovenian defender Miral Samardjic, Brazilian Leonardo, Saeed Suleiman and Saeed Jassim. In contrast, Al Wahda will miss the services of its Syrian striker, Omar Khribin, who complains of the consequences of the injury.

In the third match, Al Jazira seeks to avoid last season's scenario by exiting the 16th round of the President's Cup against Al Dhafra, when it meets Al Orouba.

Al Jazira hopes to achieve a moral victory, returning the team to the path of victories, before facing Khorfakkan in the ADNOC Professional League on the 25th of this month, especially since the "Pride of Abu Dhabi" lost against Al Ain by five goals to one in the tenth round, while it tied with Ittihad Kalba with three goals each. In the first leg of the League Cup quarter-finals.

For his part, Al-Uruba is playing the match and has great ambitions to achieve a surprise against Al-Jazira, and to prepare in the best possible way before the upcoming confrontation that he will play against the Emirates in the 11th round of the league.

Ain Al-Wasl will be a guest of Khorfakkan, focused on a successful start, paving the way for him to repeat the achievement of 2007, when he won the championship, while the best result achieved by Khorfakkan in the President's Cup was in the 1986-87 season, when it was under its previous name (Gulf), and came second. behind Al Wasl.

The confrontations of the two teams were distinguished by the advantage of Al-Wasl, which won three matches, drew one, and lost another, while the result of the last match they brought together was a 1-1 draw in the current season of the ADNOC League.

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