“No to the Impossible” is the slogan of Baniyas in front of Al-Wahda
The cup final .. is still available for the "four"
Al Wahda beat Baniyas 4-1 in the first leg.
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Al Wasl and Sharjah tied without goals.
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Today, the two semi-finals of the President's Cup will be held, where Bani Yas and Al Wahda will meet at Baniyas Club Stadium at 17:35, and Sharjah with Al Wasl at Sharjah Club Stadium at 20:30.
The first two matches were held last week, and the first saw Al Wahda win 4-1 against Baniyas, while Al Wasl and Sharjah were held to a goalless draw.
And within the first meeting that will bring Bani Yas and Al-Wahda together, the latter is close to resolving qualification with any result of a win, a tie, or even a two-goal delay, after he settled the first leg 4-1, while Bani Yas needs to win 3-0 or more to settle the result in his favour.
The two parties enter the meeting with different spirits after returning from the professional league, where Al-Wahda continued its brilliance by defeating Khorfakkan in the 16th round with a goal free of charge, to continue to maintain the rank of the competition behind the leader Al-Ain, while Bani Yas lost from Al-Ain in the same round with two goals without return, and thus will enter Baniyas meeting in search of victory and qualification to reconcile with his fans.
Al-Samawi's task will not be easy at all during the meeting, as he needs to win by four goals in order to obtain a ticket to reach the final, which will require the team to exert more effort throughout the two halves of the confrontation, and invest half-opportunities to reach goalkeeper Mohammed Al Shamsi, to As well as maintaining a clean sheet in front of the unit's attacks so as not to increase the difficulty of the task.
As for the Sharjah and Al Wasl meeting, the winner of the second leg will qualify directly for the final, and if the original time ends in a goalless draw, the two teams will play extra time, and then resort to penalty kicks.
The match was preceded by a great atmosphere of enthusiasm between the fans of the two teams, who each started preparing strongly to support their team in the stands.
It was remarkable that the two teams tied in two consecutive matches, as the negative tie settled the meeting of the two teams in the last round of the league, and before that in the first leg of the President's Cup semi-final, so today's meeting is the third for them in less than two weeks, without any goals.
Sharjah is betting on the skill and experience of its coach Cosmin in dealing with such matches, especially since the team has not lost any match so far, in addition to betting on its winning cards, represented by the Brazilian duo Cayo Lucas, Bernard, Congolese Ben Malango and Guinean Othman Camara, while Al Wasl coach is betting Uruguayan duo Michel Arrajo and Brazilian Gilberto.
On the other hand, the Football Association’s Referees Committee announced the refereeing teams that will run the two semi-final second leg matches of the tournament, as the Bani Yas match and Al Wahda match will be managed by a refereeing team led by referee Sultan Abdul Razzaq, assisted by Hassan Al-Mahri and Masoud Hassan, Ahmed Mosbeh as fourth referee, and Ahmed Al-Naqbi. Video referee, and Jumaa Al Mukhaini as assistant referee.
While the second meeting is run by referee Muhammad Abdullah, referee of the court, assisted by Mohamed Ahmed Youssef and Saeed Al-Marzouqi, Nasser Al-Ali as fourth referee, Ammar Al-Junaibi, video referee, and Zayed Daoud, as assistant referee.
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