The Austria camp will conclude next Tuesday with a “friendly” Venezuela

The team performs well against Paraguay and loses the result

The team lost yesterday, with a goal to zero in Paraguay friendly.

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Yesterday, the national football team lost its friendly match against Paraguay with a clean goal, scored by Fabian in the 85th minute, from a header, during the confrontation that took place at Wiener Neustadt in Austria, within the current external camp that the team is hosting, in preparation for its upcoming foreign benefits. The most prominent of them is the participation in the 25th Arabian Gulf Cup, the West Asian Championship next March, and the 2023 Asian Cup. At the end of the current camp in Austria, the team will play another friendly match next Tuesday against Venezuela.

Despite the loss, the team presented a distinguished performance, and benefited greatly from this experience, during which the technical staff, led by coach Aruabarina, stood on the levels of his players, and tried the elements selected in the new list, to determine their physical and technical level, the extent of harmony between them and the implementation of the game plan.

And Al-Abyad embarrassed on more than one occasion his Paraguay counterpart, who reached the World Cup finals eight times.

This is the team's fourth match during the reign of coach Arruabarina, after he led him previously in three official matches, the first against Iraq and lost by a clean goal in the final qualifiers for the 2022 World Cup, and the second against South Korea, which the white won with a clean goal and led them to the qualifying playoff for the World Cup finals. Where he met the Australian national team and lost to them by a clean goal, ending the dream of qualifying for the World Cup for the second time.

The referee canceled a goal for the UAE national team, which was scored by Cayo Canedo from the header "47", for offside.

The first half ended goalless, while Paraguay scored the winning goal in the second half.

The team played the match with a squad that included goalkeeper Khaled Issa, in the defense Khalifa Al Hammadi, Muhammad Al Attas, Abdel Aziz Heikal and Khaled Al Dhanhani, and in the middle Ali Salmin, Abdullah Ramadan and Majed Rashid, and in the attack, Abdullah, Kayo and Ali Mabkhout fought.

The team showed a good performance in the first half, and the Paraguay team participated in controlling the match, and Hareb Abdullah missed a real chance as his ball hit the crossbar.

On the other hand, Paraguay was distinguished by collective performance, speed and good organization, and threatened the team's goal with more than one attempt, but goalkeeper Khaled Issa responded to Paraguay's repeated attempts.

The second half came quickly from both sides, and witnessed several attempts by the team.

Khaled Issa continued his brilliance in defending his goal, and saved the team from a goal by Paraguay (60), and striker Ali Mabkhout missed a valuable opportunity (61), while the winning goal for Paraguay came in the 85th minute from Fabian's header.

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