Al Wasl ends the season with two goals in Al Dhafra

• 11 May, 2021

Al Wasl achieved an important victory over his counterpart Al Dhafra, with two goals to one in the match that was held between them at Zabeel Stadium, in the 26th round of the Arabian Gulf League.

Al Wasl started the match well, and almost opened the scoring early in the 3 minute through Fabio de Lima, after he tamed Ali Saleh's cross from the left side, but his ball over the crossbar. However, unlike the course of the match, Al Dhafra succeeded in scoring the advance goal through the header of his defender Muslim Al-Hamdani, in the 28th minute.

The emperor continued his control of the match and came close to scoring the equalizer after Fabio, who was on target from the right, but the visitors' defender intervened at the right time, preventing him from scoring. In the 45th minute, and moments before the end of the first half, the referee awarded a penalty for the yellow team, after Ali Saleh was blocked by Al Dhafra's defender, to see Fabio de Lima, scoring the equalizer.

With the start of the second half, the emperor intensified his attempts on goal, and coach Oder Hillman pushed Faris Khalil instead of Youssef Al Muhairi, who was injured.

In the 59th minute, striker and sniper Joao Figredo scored the lead after turning a neat cross from the right, into the goal with a single touch with his right foot.

Hellmann, made the second switch by entering the young Brazilian striker Luis Henrique, at the expense of Ali Saleh, in the 69th minute to activate the offensive side of the team and score a third goal that ends on Amal Al Dhafra, in the return to the meeting, followed by a third substitution by entering Shehab ahmed, instead of Ronaldo Mendes, in the minute 77.

Then a fourth substitution by entering Khamis Nasser at the expense of Fabio de Lim.

The referee was counted 3 minutes in lost time, to end the match with Al-Yellow's victory, with two goals to one.

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Hellmann: Stopping the league was not in our favor and we are working on turning the page of this season in the best way possible

• 09 May, 2021

Technical Director Odair Hellmann explained that the team did not give a good result in the last two matches, after the emperor suffered losses from Khorfakkan and Shabab Al-Ahli, before the curtain fell on the Arabian Gulf League against Al Dhafra in the 26th round.

Hellman indicated that stopping the long league was not in the team’s interest, pointing out that despite the drop in the level, Al Wasl made a good second half in the two matches, and it was possible to return in the result, but the players did not reconcile, saying: In any case we want to present The best possible performance against Al Dhafra to turn the page this season, and start preparations for next season.

And I go on, there is a comprehensive evaluation of the team, I communicate permanently with the management, about the team's needs for the next season, but now is not the time to talk about it, our focus is on the Al Dhafra match.

For his part, the young Brazilian striker, Luiz Henrique, confirmed that the team is ready to face Al Dhafra and reap the three points, saying: We want a good end to the season and compensate the fans for the loss in the previous two games.

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Al Wasl loses the derby

• 08 May, 2021

Al Wasl suffered a three-goal loss without a response to Shabab Al-Ahli in the Dubai derby, this evening, Friday, in the match that was held between them at Rashid Stadium, in the 25th round of the Arabian Gulf League.

The match began calm and equal throughout the first 10 minutes, then the offensive attempts began and the initiative was for Shabab Al-Ahli in the 12th minute when Youssef Jaber opened the match with a goal from a penalty kick, which the referee calculated after the goalkeeper Hamid Abdullah blocked the striker of the owners of the land.

Al Wasl tried to return in the meeting, and he made a lot of his attempts, but they were not serious enough, and in the 30th minute, the owners of the land add the second goal by Carlos Eduardo, who took advantage of a mistake in the defensive positioning of the Emperor, before the Leopards received the third goal by Suhail, in the minute 38, after a quick counterattack, the Emperor's defense did not succeed in stopping it, and in the 41st minute, the team's defender, Abdul Rahman Saleh, got the second yellow card, after interfering with the striker of Shabab Al-Ahli, to complete Al-Wasl, the first half with 10 players.

At the start of the second half, coach Oder Hillman made a substitution by entering the young Brazilian striker Luis Henrique, at the expense of his compatriot Joao Figredo, to increase the attacking effectiveness of the team.

Al-Wasl did not succeed in forming any real danger to Shabab Al-Ahli’s goal, and Hillman made 4 consecutive changes in the team in the hope of reducing the difference and possibly adjusting the score, by entering Khamis Nasser, instead of Hassan Ibrahim in the 81st minute, Muhammad Al-Akbari and Shehab Ahmed, at the expense Ali Saleh and Fabio de Lima, in the 89th minute, followed by a fifth change in the 92nd minute, with Fares Khalil entering instead of Ronaldo Mendes, to end the match with Al Wasl losing to Shabab Al-Ahli with three goals without a response.

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