Their qualification to the Round of 16 was postponed after the loss to Poland

Wasted opportunities and defense errors complicate the position of "Al-Akhdar"

• Lewandowski scored his goal against Al-Akhdar from a defensive error by the Saudi player Al-Maliki.

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Yesterday, the Saudi national team missed the opportunity to qualify for the round of 16 of the 2022 World Cup, after losing to Poland with two unanswered goals in the second round of Group C, so that the Saudi national team’s balance stopped at three points, while Poland raised its balance to four points.

Defense mistakes and wasting easy opportunities in front of goalkeeper Chesney contributed to giving Poland the advantage and scoring two goals that gave the team the first victory in the 2022 World Cup.

Al-Akhdar received four shocks that contributed to the undeserved loss against Poland, most notably when midfielder Abdul-Ilah Al-Maliki received a yellow card in the 20th minute of the first half, to confirm his absence from the Mexico match in the third round next Wednesday at Lusail Stadium, so that Al-Maliki joined the list of absences of the Saudi national team. Which includes Salman Al-Faraj and Yasser Al-Shahrani, who were injured from the Argentina match.

Al-Maliki's obtaining the yellow card contributed to a decline in his performance during the match, before he made a fatal mistake in the second half when he was unable to control the ball that reached the Polish star Lewandowski, who added the second goal and decided the match in favor of the "White Eagles". The second shock was the chances. The easy game that the players missed one after the other, most notably a missile shot by Keno, which was wonderfully saved by Juventus goalkeeper Chesney and sent it to a corner kick.

And at a time when the Saudi national team dominated the course of the game, Zelensky scored the goal for Poland in the 40th minute, after a pass from Barcelona star Robert Lewandowski. Poland defender Belek and Saudi striker Al-Shehri, and Salem Al-Dossary executed the kick, but Chesney blocked it, so the ball went to Muhammad Al-Breik, who shot again from close range, and Chesney blocked it again brilliantly.

Al-Akhdar continued to waste easy opportunities through the brilliance of Chesney, who saved Al-Dosari alone in the 55th minute, while the players’ performance declined on the physical level, and Poland came close to adding the second goal on two occasions: the first from a ball that Milik played with his head and bounced off the crossbar (60), Then another from Lewandowski bounced off the post (65).

As for the fourth shock, it was in the same way for the first goal of the Polish national team, when Al-Akhdar came close to scoring the equalizer, as Al-Maliki wasted an opportunity not to be missed when he received a ball in front of the Poland penalty area and hit a powerful ball that passed near the post (78), before the player himself made a mistake. A killer because of him, he gave the ball to Lewandowski to score his first goal in the World Cup, and the second for Poland in the 82nd minute.

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