Walid Abdullah
Technical analyst and national coach, Siddiq Zuweid, confirmed that the first national football team presented a good match, despite a loss against Japan 2/0, in the match that brought together the two teams yesterday in the Japanese capital, Tokyo, in the seventh round matches for the third group of the third and decisive stage qualifiers for the 2026 World Cup, adding that the logic imposed itself in this confrontation, indicating that the team must work to prepare more for the match Indonesia, which was considered a crossroads of the spherical red in these World Cup qualifiers.
In his statement to “Al -Watan Al -Riyadi”, Zuweid said: “Our national team presented a good match, but it lost against the first qualifying for the World Cup.
The Japanese team achieved a deserved victory, although our team presented a good match in the first half, which was characterized by tactical discipline, especially at the level of defense coverage and not giving spaces to the players of the host country.
He continued, saying: “The Japanese team entered the second half more fiercely, and tried to make opportunities, as the Japanese team coach was focusing greatly in achieving victory and resolving qualification in this match, where he made two substitutions between the two halves and 3 switching before the 60th minute. Unlike our national team coach, Dragan Talayic, who was afraid of the replacements, and he made the first switch in the 65th minute by involving the striker Mohamed Al -Rumaihi, two changes after that at a very advanced time of the match. ”
He added that Japan was able to score the first goal of a quick attack made by Kobo, and the alternative scored it as a camera, before Cubo scored the second goal due to an error in defensive coverage from the right side, and a wrong concentration from goalkeeper Ibrahim Lotfallah, who did not close the narrow angle on the Japanese player who took advantage of him well to enhance the progress of his country.
He said: “The match in its entirety is good for the footballing red despite the mistakes, and it seems that Al -Ahmar, with the loss of the services of defender Amin Bin Uday due to the warnings, and the injury of Hamad Shamsan, who are suspicious about his participation in the match, Indonesia, will put the national team in front of a strong challenge, in order to get the papers and correct mistakes and prepare more for the most important match, which is the Indonesia match that does not stop division by two, the victory will be the only requirement for Al -Ahmar in this The confrontation, as well as the faces of Saudi Arabia and China in the ninth and tenth rounds, if he wants to relate to the glimmer of hope in direct competition to qualify or even move to the fourth stage of the qualifiers, the loss of more points in the Indonesia match in particular may determine the fate and place of red in the group, which may put it outside the accounts in the event of loss.
He concluded his speech, saying: “The coach Dragan must trust the bench, and put the appropriate plan for the Indonesia match, especially in addressing the exhaustion of the players after the strong match they presented against the Japan team.
It is noticeable that Dragan is not trusting the bench adequately, and this is what we saw in Khaleeji 26 when striker Mohamed Al -Rumaihi participated as an early alteration, but the rest of the changes come late, which clearly affects the performance and level of the team in the match. This is what should not happen in the Indonesia match, which requires an effort to win the result of the victory, which is renewed from the hopes of al -Ahmar in these World Cup qualifiers, “hoping at the same time the best of success for our team in the Indonesia match in order to achieve victory and gain the three points of this important and fateful confrontation, he said.
