All eyes are focused on Al Maktoum Stadium in Dubai to watch the final of the “Emaar Professional Super Cup”, at 19:30 pm today, between Al Wasl, champions of the league and cup double last season, and Shabab Al Ahly, “runners-up in the league”, in a confrontation that is the first between the two teams in the tournament. Contest title.
Al-Wasl hopes to add a new title to its record of devoid of Super Cup titles since the start of the tournament in its new form in the professional era in the 2008-2009 season, to put it in its coffers, along with the two league championships and the President’s Cup.
On the other hand, Shabab Al-Ahly has a rich record in the Super Final, having participated in nine previous matches, and tops the list of clubs that have won the most titles with six victories, and is looking forward to adding another title to compensate for its exit last season empty-handed from the championships.
Shabab Al-Ahly holds records in the “Super”, after it had achieved the largest victory in the history of the tournament during the last season, with its broad victory in the last edition over Al-Sharjah 6-2, in an unprecedented result, especially since the largest result was recorded in the name of Al-Ain over Al-Nasr with a score. 4-2 in the 2015-2016 season.
Shabab Al-Ahly also scored the most in the final Super Cup matches in the professional era, with 14 goals, eight of which were scored at Al Maktoum Stadium, which is hosting tonight’s match.
A number of Dubai Knights players are unique in having the most participation in the Super Final, as Abdulaziz Heikal tops the list, who moved at the beginning of this season to Al-Bataeh Club, with seven participations, and the duo Majed Nasser and Walid Abbas come after him, with six participations.
As for Al-Wasl, it is the third team to appear in the Super Cup final, combining the league titles and the President’s Cup, after Al-Jazira and Al-Ain, but they lost the Super Cup at the hands of Al-Wahda, which competed in the 2011-2012 final as runner-up in the cup, while it competed in the 2018-2019 final as runner-up in the league, and succeeded in winning the title. Winning on penalties in both matches.
The balance of the two teams seems to be balanced historically, after they played 47 matches in all local professional competitions, and Shabab Al-Ahly won 19, Al-Wasl won 17, and they tied in 11 matches.
The 47 matches witnessed Shabab Al-Ahly scoring 79 goals, compared to 66 goals for Al-Wasl, while the two teams were equal in the number of wins in the elimination confrontations, exchanging wins on five occasions.
Throughout the history of Super Cup matches, the team that won the league title was able to win the title seven times, as did the team that won the President’s Cup, while one team that was the league runner-up won the title on two occasions.
Technically, Al-Wasl is not experiencing its best condition in the league this season, as it comes in eighth place with 13 points, in contrast to its appearance in the AFC Champions League for the elite, through which it secured its place in the second round of the tournament.
“The Emperor” is suffering from the decline of a number of its stars at the local level, led by Ali Saleh, Fabio Lima, and goalkeeper Khaled Al-Sanani, but the Al-Waslawi bet on them remains valid to lead their team to win the Super Cup.
Shabab Al-Ahly suffered in the last two matches in the ADNOC Professional League, with draws with Ittihad Kalba and Khor Fakkan, dropping to second place in the general ranking table, but the red team’s lineup will witness the return of its Iranian striker, Sardar Azmoun, who missed his team’s recent matches due to suspension and injury, which is the return it is waiting for. The fans are impatient to improve the attacking performance of their team, which has only scored one goal in the last two matches.
Sardar Azmoun has six goals, as he is third on the league’s top scorers list behind Al Ain striker Laba Kodjo (11 goals) and Al Wahda striker, Omar Khribin (9 goals).
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