“White” faces “3 scenarios” … the best of them

The national football team maintained its “difficult” chances of qualifying directly for the 2026 World Cup, after achieving an important victory, the day before yesterday, he came with the hardest of the North Korean team 2-1, raising its score to 13 points, in the eighth round of the first group, knowing that the Iranian team, the group leader, officially qualified for the World Cup, after raising its score to 20 points.

He strengthened the team’s chances of directly qualifying for the World Cup, the Uzbek team stumbling in a 2-2 draw with Iran in the same round, as well as Qatar’s loss to Kyrgyzstan with three goals against a goal, to freeze the balance of the Qatari Al-Annabi at 10 points in fourth place.

The key to the direct team’s qualification has become dependent on the results of others and therefore will face more than a “scenario” of the best, as he must win its remaining matches against both Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, respectively, in the ninth and 10 round Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan tied with Qatar, and at that time the UAE and Uzbek teams will raise their score to 19 points, knowing that the advantage of the goals until the eighth round of the benefit of Al -Abyad by scoring 14 goals, while it received seven goals, while Uzbekistan scored 11 goals and received seven goals.

The team will be outside the competition race for the qualification card directly, even if it wins in its last two games in the qualifiers if the Uzbek team beat Qatar in the last round, as it will raise its score to 20 points and white 19 points, so that his only hope remains is qualification through the annex that will be more difficult than these qualifiers and has a “different story”, and qualifies directly from the World Cup qualifiers, the two teams, the first and second places in each group, while the third place is running The fourth is an additional stage of the qualifiers.

Although the match revealed a lot of defects and weaknesses in the team, especially at the level of the defensive system, which resulted in the equalizer for the Korean team «43» from a cross that Kim Uped in the goal of goalkeeper Khaled Issa, without finding good defense coverage, and despite that, the team eventually managed to resolve the meeting in his interest after the substitute player Sultan Adel succeeded in scoring the second goal.

The fan has achieved the most important in this match, but it seemed clear that he also needed a great work by the training apparatus to prepare it well for the last two games in these qualifiers, against Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan in succession on the fifth and tenth of next June.

Several technical factors are highlighted behind the victory of the fan over Korea, which was the desire and insistence of the players of the national team to resolve the match, and the awakening of the players at the last minute, along with the brilliance of the substitute striker Sultan Adel, the owner of the valuable victory goal from a header in the time calculated instead of lost «90+ 10», despite the completion of the match while suffering a head injury, in addition to the brilliance of goalkeeper Khaled Issa, who saved his goal from more than one opportunity for the team The Korean, the most prominent of which was the Cook Chul missile shot “49”, in addition to the early goal scored by the player Lima “5” and the team gave the advantage in the match, as well as the positive interventions made by the national team coach, including the involvement of Lima mainly, and the adventure by involving Sultan Adel instead of Junatas Santos “46”, which is the first switch of the team in the match, while Yahya Al -Ghassani came to alternative Pereira «65).

Another important factory is that coach Pinto changed the way the team played against Iran in the previous match, during which he relied on a 5-4-1 style, to 4-2–1 in the North Korea match.

The starting lineup of the team also witnessed major changes from the ones that had played its previous match against Iran, and the changes extended to four players: Khalifa Al -Hammadi, Khaled Al -Dhanhani, Yahya Al -Ghassani and McKenzi Hunt, and instead of them, Marcus Meloni, Shou Douan Pereira and Fabio de Lima.

The back line witnessed changes with the participation of Marcus Meloni instead of Khaled Al -Dhanhani, and Pinto also involved the fighter of Abdullah in the back line, instead of Khalifa Al Hammadi, and in the center, Luan Peraera and Lima participated instead of McKenzi Hunt and Yahya Al -Ghassani.

On the other hand, there are many negative points revealed by the match, as Al -Abyad suffered in most of the playing periods from several defensive and offensive problems, and the focus and organization were absent with a general decline in the bastard fitness and the lack of players for the fighting spirit and lack of harmony, as the team did not take advantage of its progress in the match with an early goal, by increasing its yield from the goals specifically in the first half, but allowed the Korean team to reach its net and score the goal of the equalizer, This confused the accounts of Al -Abyad and difficult from his mission in the second half, before Sultan Adel saved the position with the second goal in stoppage time.

It also seemed clear that the coach did not know the real capabilities of the players and his adoption of experimenting in each match through the continuous changes he is, which also caused the loss of the football identity of the national team and playing with a new squad in each match.

“Scenarios” qualification

• The team won against Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan in the last two rounds, in exchange for the loss of Uzbekistan against Qatar.

• The goals may also resolve the second qualification card, in the event that the UAE team beat Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan tied with Qatar.

• The team will be outside the qualification race directly, even if it wins its last two matches in the qualifiers, if the Uzbek team beat Qatar.