The hopes of the national football team in direct qualification to the 2026 World Cup finals, after losing the day before yesterday to its Iranian host with two goals without a response, in the third round of the Asian qualifiers, at a time when the defensive errors of the “white” players continued to weaken the dealing with the cross balls, the poor defense concentration, and give the opponents large areas in the back line.
The team’s nets were shaken six times during this role of the qualifiers, two of them from two penalty kicks, as a result of repeated errors in the back line.
The team entered the complex accounts stage in the direct qualification of the World Cup, after the loss of its score at 10 points in the third place, with a difference of goals from the fourth Qatari team, while the Iranian team strengthened its chances greatly in kidnapping the qualification card, after it moved away at the top of the group, raising its score to 19 points, and the Uzbek team strengthened its second position in the table with 16 points, benefiting from its victory over its victory His guest Kyrgyzstan with a goal without a response.
The team had started its career in the third round by beating Qatar 3-1 in a match during which the Qataris opened the scoring in the 38th minute through Ibrahim Al-Hassan, who received a cross from his teammate Akram Afif from inside the penalty area, before Al-Hassan successfully paid it towards the net, taking advantage of the poor defensive coverage.
Al -Abyad received his first loss in this role against Iran with a goal without a response in a match held at Hazza Bin Zayed Stadium, as the Iranian player, Mahdi Qaidi, succeeded in scoring in stoppage time from the first half, taking advantage of a defensive error from which he scored the only goal of the match.
The mistakes committed by the team defenders in receiving the “white” caused the loss in two games in a row, after it tied at home with North Korea 1-1, as Yahya Al-Ghassani presented the “Al-Abyad”, before the Koreans could amend in the 88th minute a penalty kick he successfully executed by Jong-Guan, and the same scene was repeated in the team’s loss on the 15th month in front of its host Uzbekistan with a clean goal It came in the 79th minute of a penalty carried by Ottick Shokurov.
And last November, the team revived its hopes of competing for the direct qualification cards for its group, by beating Kyrgyzstan with three clean goals, followed in the opening of the group’s second leg with a wide victory over Qatar with five goals without a response.
The team entered Iran’s meeting and appointed him to kidnap valuable points that brought it closer to Uzbekistan before the return meeting, but the weak dealing with cross balls and poor defensive coverage were two guarantors to grant Sardar Azoun the opportunity to invest the cross -ball from his teammate Saman Qudsus, and to upgrade a header, during which Azoun succeeded in housing the ball on the right of Khaled Issa, announcing the first goal for Iran.
The defensive errors cost the elevated goal to receive a second goal in the 70th minute, when Mohamed Mohbi received a pass, a penetration into the penalty area amid a chase of the defense line, before he hit a land ball that settled in the net, to lose “Al -Abyad” with two goals without a response.
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