Liverpool faces AC Milan next Sunday
Arsenal beats Lyon in the Dubai Super Cup and earns "4 points"
Excitement attended the Arsenal-Lyon match in the Dubai Super Cup.
Photography: Osama Abu Ghanem
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Arsenal of England achieved an easy victory over Lyon, France, 3-0, yesterday, in the launch of the Dubai Super Cup 2022, which will be held at Al Maktoum Stadium in Al-Nasr Club, with the participation of four international teams, in addition to Liverpool of England and AC Milan of Italy, who will meet the day after tomorrow.
Arsenal succeeded in deciding the first match in the first half to score the first three points, and Arsenal succeeded in winning the penalty shootout to score an additional point and become four points in the first match.
The Organizing Committee adopted the championship system by points to determine the champion of the Dubai Super Cup 2022, where each team gets three points, and a new item for the tournament was added only, which is a penalty shootout after each match, through which the winner gets one point added to the winning team’s balance. In the match to get four points, or the losing team gets one point if it loses the original time of the match and wins the penalty shootout.
This comes because not all teams met each other during the tournament, as Liverpool will not meet Arsenal in the tournament, just as the Italian Milan and French Lyon teams did not meet.
And Arsenal succeeded in scoring its three goals in the first half of the match through Gabriel Maglis, Eddie Nikita and Fabio Lucango, as Arsenal played the match with the squad available to it from all the main players other than those participating in the World Cup “Qatar 2022” or the injured, which prompted the team to Ending the match early in the first half by scoring the first victory in the tournament before playing its important match against Milan, Italy, on the 13th of this month, at the end of the tournament matches.
And the Arsenal coach relied on snatching match points in the first half before replacing a large number of players in the second half in order to find out about their technical condition before the start of the English Premier League matches, which is the same procedure that the Lyon coach took in order to test a large number of his players. during the match.
The second half of the match did not rise to the level of the first half in the technical and scoring aspects due to the large number of changes, as the two coaches changed all the players, so that the match ended with the same result, with three goals for Arsenal.
After the end of the match, the two teams resorted to a penalty shootout, which also smiled at Arsenal, 3-1, to score an additional point and get four points in its first match in the Dubai Super Cup.
Great media attention
The Arsenal-Lyon match witnessed media interest and a large number of media professionals from England, France and Emirati journalists, as the media center of Al-Nasr Club was filled with journalists and photographers. Their head was the Egyptian star Mohamed Salah, the top scorer in the English Premier League three times.
A special reception for the Egyptian Mohamed Elneny
The Arsenal-Lyon match witnessed a special public reception for the Egyptian star Mohamed Al-Nani, the Arsenal player from the Egyptian and Arab community, as the match was witnessed by a good audience, especially from the Asian community, who filled nearly 70% of the stands of Al Maktoum Stadium, which hosts the tournament, because of the great popularity Arsenal has. in the Middle East and Asia.
Match schedule
Arsenal - Lyon (3 - 0)
Liverpool – Lyon (11-12-2022)
Arsenal - Milan (12-13-2022)
Liverpool - Milan (16-12-2022)
ranking table
Arsenal: 4 points
Leon: Zero
Liverpool: zero
Milan: zero
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