"Gulf 25" gives an opportunity for defaulters to rearrange their papers

7 clubs saved by stopping the league from the “difficult impasse”

The recent summit of Al Ain and Al Wasl ended in a disappointing draw for the two teams.

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The ADNOC Professional League will return to suspension due to the holding of the “Gulf 25” championship competitions from the sixth to the 19th of next January, so that seven clubs will have the opportunity to stop the league for 27 days, after the difficult predicament in which it currently found itself, after rounds that stumbled in it, and the opportunity became great. She now has to rearrange her cards.

Although the league stopped for 37 days during the 2022 World Cup, and two rounds of the league were held, before it stopped again, seven clubs stand out that will get a good opportunity to correct the mistakes that contributed to the decline in their results during the last period.

Defending champion Al Ain tops the list of clubs in whose favor the suspension is in favor, especially as it fell to seventh place with 19 points, seven points behind leaders Sharjah.

Violet has great potential to help it make up the difference if it succeeds in remediing the defensive problems it faced in the past rounds, during which it received 15 goals with an average of 1.25 goals per match, while it did not face a problem in terms of offensive power, by scoring 27 goals, which put it on top. The most powerful attacking clubs, with an average of 2.25 goals per match.

Al Ain won five matches this season in the league, and suffered three defeats and a draw in four matches, including a draw in the last three matches with Sharjah and Bani Yas with one score (2-2), and with Al Wasl (1-1).

The situation is no different for Al-Wahda, who made a great start since Spanish coach Jimenez took over the job by winning seven matches, and rose to the top, before stumbling in the last two league matches, with a draw with Khor Fakkan 2-2, and a loss from Ajman 1-0, and before that he lost the cup final. The postponed, and bid farewell to the cup version in the current season by losing to Shabab Al-Ahly, then bid farewell to the Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank Cup, and fell in the standings from second to fourth place by 23 points.

Al-Wasl, led by Argentine coach Pizzi, will get a good opportunity to stop the team's decline, after it topped the standings after the sixth round. It fell from third to sixth by 22 points.

For his part, Al-Nasr continued its negative results, losing to Dibba 1-0, and tied with Al-Bataeh 2-2, so that its score stopped at seven points in the 12th place.

Despite Kalba's strong start, the team fell to eighth place with 17 points, after losing the last three matches against Ajman 1-0, Sharjah 4-0, and Khorfakkan 2-1.

On the other hand, Dibba and Al Dhafra need a great effort to move away from the 13th and 14th places, with four points each.

In an attempt to reform, Dibba sacked his French coach, Gregory, who is the second coach of the team to be dismissed this season after the Serbian Zoran, and Al Dhafra had also brought back his former coach, the Serbian Philosophy, in October, and dismissed his compatriot Nebosha, but the team's results did not improve.

Al-Zaeem, despite his offensive strength (27 goals), but his defensive suffering is great, as he concedes an average of 1.25 goals per match.  

The suffering of the 7 clubs

■■ Al Ain is in seventh place with 19 points, and has not won the last 3 matches.

■■ Al-Wahda retreated from the lead to fourth place, lost the last two matches, and deposited the two cup championships early.

■■ Al Wasl moved from the lead to third and then sixth with 22 points, and did not win the last two matches.

■■ The suffering of Al-Nasr continues, as after the last stop, it lost and tied in the last two rounds of the league, and it has 7 points in the 12th place.

■■ Despite Kalba's strong start, it fell to eighth place with 17 points, and lost the last 3 matches.

Daba suffers in the penultimate position with 4 points, and has dismissed two coaches so far this season.

■■ Al Dhafra is in last place in the league standings, and is considered the weakest defense after conceding 36 goals so far.

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