Khaled Obaid: Ajman is a "high-end team" that presents a beautiful and easy ball

The top of the league ignites .. 3 points separate the "first from the eighth"

Al Wahda returned from Sharjah with 3 points and a lead.

Photography: Osama Abu Ghanem

Eight teams are competing for the top of the ADNOC Professional League, which gives the tournament a great shape in the title competition without any features indicating the team capable of crowning, especially since the difference between Sharjah "leader" and Al Ain "eighth" team is only three points.

Three teams share the first place in Sharjah, Al Wahda, and Shabab Al Ahli (16 points), then Al Wasl (15 points), Al Jazeera, Ajman, Ittihad Kalba (14 points), and Al Ain (13 points).

Al Wahda’s victory over Sharjah and Al Jazeera over Al Wasl in the eighth round gave the tournament a great competitive shape and crowded lead. The tournament rounds witness major paradoxes with each round due to the different performance provided by foreign players or a change in the coaches’ playing plan, all factors that help in the game of “musical chairs” in ranking table.

During the eighth round, many questions and problems related to video technology appeared, which aroused a lot of controversy in many matches, and the match was the most wonderful events and not a performance, which brought together Sharjah and Al Wahda is the most prominent at the level of arbitration, with the presence of a foreign referee who succeeded in leading the match without any problems or influential errors And it ended with a fatal goal by Wahdawi in the 94th minute of the match, mixing the top cards.

The Ajman teams and the Kalba Union this season represent an exceptional sign in the results of the offers and the league standings, with their presence at the fore, with a score of 14 points for each, and their ability to win any match and any team with their good players, hardworking foreigners who are not the best, and a serious training mentality outside the lines.

As for the struggle to escape relegation, the Al-Nasr team, "the Dean of Emirati clubs", is present, with six points, in a difficult position that is not envied by the club and its large audience, after it suffered a severe and historical defeat against the Kalba Union in five, which made the team's position more difficult in the ranking table, and accompanied Al Dhafra and Dibba in A painful journey with the championship.

"Emirates Al-Youm" monitored a question on the Twitter platform about the Sharjah team and the reason for the loss against Al-Wahda, in which it said: "We shared the opinion ... what is the reason for Sharjah's loss against Al-Wahda, despite its superiority in the President's Cup final and the ADNOC Professional League championship from the beginning of the tournament?" Four answers were monitored: the psychological factor, the brilliance of foreigners of the unit, the defensive errors of Sharjah, and coach Jimenez.

During the vote, which was attended by 119 participants, 33.6% agreed on the brilliance of the unit's foreigners, and the defensive errors came second with 27.3%, then coach Jimenez 20%, and finally the psychological factor of 19.1%.

For his part, technical analyst Khaled Obeid confirmed that the eighth round of the championship witnessed an abundance of goals and an abundance in the lead with the presence of this number of teams in the competition for the league title, noting that it is a scene that occurs for the first time in the history of the championship, due to the approach of teams at the technical level and the absence of a team Able to move forward on his own.

Khaled Obaid told "Emirates Today": "A wonderful tour in which the coach of Al-Wahda succeeded in reading the keys to playing Sharjah and winning back from the opponent's stadium and competing well in the lead, and Al-Ahly youth, far from its usual level from the beginning of the league, succeeded in returning and brilliance and competing for the lead despite the influential absences. Also, Al-Wasl team did not manage to maintain its lead in the championship due to the apparent shortage in some of the team’s ranks.

He added: "The victory is a difficult story that we have not seen before, and Kalba deserves to be saluted for what it has done in the tournament so far. As for the Ajman team, it is the (high-end) that offers beautiful and easy football and positive and wonderful results, and the two teams are able to compete in the adult box for the first time for what they offer. In the tournament, Dibba and Al Dhafra, there is no excuse for their poor results and level of performance in the tournament so far.”

To view the top scorers, team standings and results of Round 8,

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