Khaled Obaid: Arabism and “Al Annabi” confirmed to “Al-Zaeem” that the championship did not end

"The Unity Project" achieves its goals... and Al Ain's lead is "in danger"

Khribin during the celebration of Al-Wahda's victory over Al-Ahly youth in the 18th round. From the source

Round 18 of the ADNOC Professional League proved that Al Wahda is determined to go far in the competition for all championships this season, and that the project it started with French coach Gregory, since last October, is bearing fruit so far, after Al Wahda reduced the difference with Al Ain, the league leader to four. Only points, while the team is still competing for the two cup championships.

Al-Wahda under the leadership of Gregory has suffered only one loss so far in the league, and has 39 points in the runners-up, compared to 43 for the leaders Al-Ain, who stumbled in the 18th round with a disappointing draw against Al-Uruba, which is his second this season against the same team, after they also tied in the first leg. .

Four points lost by Al-Ain against Al-Uruba this season, confirmed the team’s problem in some matches, especially in front of the teams that suffer at the bottom of the league, but the real Al-Ain metal always appears in front of the leading teams and the competition for titles, which heralds a match and a great summit next round when the two big ones collide, Eye and loneliness.

The unity project was not apparent from the beginning of the season and its results were unstable, especially with the successive draws, to move away from the competition, and then returned with six consecutive victories with 18 points, and its strength in a distinguished attacking duo, represented by the Brazilian Pedro and the Syrian Omar Khribin, next to the veteran Ismail Matar, And a number of other players.

Al Ain and Al Wahda benefited from the loss that Sharjah suffered against Al Jazira, the first for Romanian coach Cosmin, to move away from the competition for the league title.

On the other hand, Baniyas returned from Ajman with three valuable points in a match in which the owner of the land tried to continue his awakening and was close to reaching the 28th point, but he lost against the runner-up of the last edition.

Al-Ain will play, starting from the next Al-Wahda meeting, a series of difficult matches against big teams, such as Al-Jazira, Sharjah, Al-Ahly youth, Al-Nasr and Al-Wasl, which will largely determine the future of the competition, and the extent of Al-Ain's ability to maintain the lead.

Al-Nasr managed to return to victories by four against the Emirates team, reaching the 25th point, but it is still far from the leader with 18 points, which confirms the team's crisis this season, and Al-Wasl refused to win and was satisfied with a draw with Kalba, to remain in the middle struggle.

The landing scenes came close to the end, after Al Dhafra achieved a victory that moved slightly away from Al-Uruba and "Al-Suqur".

Despite the suffering of the Emirates team, but its mission is not impossible to avoid relegation, although it is the first candidate, as it has six points, compared to 10 for Al-Arabiya (penultimate), and 14 for Al Dhafra, who is ranked 12.

"Emirates Today" monitored the opinions of the audience with a question via Twitter about the Al-Wahda and Al-Ain competition: "We shared the opinion... Do you expect Al-Ain to lose the top spot in the ADNOC Professional League in the interest of Al-Wahda given the upcoming difficult confrontations for Al-Ain, the first of which is the two teams' match in the next round?"

Three answers were monitored, namely: Al Ain will maintain the lead, Al Wahda is able to win, and the next round will determine the champion.

163 participants chose Al Ain's ability to maintain the lead (44.4%), while 31.9% saw Al Wahda's ability to win, and 23.7% of the participants indicated that the next round will determine the champion.

The tournament is not over

Technical analyst Khaled Obaid confirmed that "Al-Wahda team has become more dangerous for Al-Ain in the championship journey and competition for the league title, more than Sharjah and Al-Jazeera, and it is the team that snatched the star of the tour by achieving a big victory over Al-Ahly's youth."

He added, "Al-Arabiya and Al-Wahda gave two warning bells to the eye, and they assured him that the tournament had not ended and was still on the field."

Khaled Obaid continued to "Emirates Today": "A tour with an abundance of goalscoring, but there is no great technical level except for one or two matches, which indicates the presence of a defect, such as the victory quartet in the goal of (the Falcons), and the Al Dhafra quartet in Khorfakkan, certainly it is. Important victories, but they did not rise to the technical level of the championship.”

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