Bani Yas team will host its counterpart Ajman, at 5:30 pm today, in the third round of the ADNOC Professional Football League, while Dibba Al-Hisn will meet its guest Al-Bataeh at 8 pm at Khorfakkan Stadium.
The round continues tomorrow with two heavyweight matches, as Sharjah hosts Al Jazira at 17:30, and Al Wasl plays Al Nasr at 8 pm. The round will conclude the day after tomorrow with Shabab Al Ahli meeting Al Wahda, and Al Orouba meeting Khorfakkan, while the match between Ittihad Kalba and Al Ain has been postponed to a date to be determined later.
Ajman enters its match against Bani Yas under pressure, after the team failed to achieve any points in the league, following the losses to Al Wahda and Shabab Al Ahli. In fact, its suffering has increased after it bid farewell to the Professional League Cup (Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank Cup) competition, losing to Shabab Al Ahli in the first leg 0-2, and drawing 1-1 in the second leg.
Ajman fans were hoping for a better start than it was, in light of the many reinforcements made by the club’s management at the level of professional and resident players, for the first time in the club’s history, and the return of Serbian coach Goran, but things did not go as planned, and the team continued to fall from one match to another.
The Orange team will have to return from Al Shamkha Stadium with the best result, even if it is a draw at the very least, so as not to find itself in an early struggle with relegation, although the aspirations were to compete for an advanced position in the league table.
The match is no less important for the “Sky Blues”, as the “home team” wants to compensate for the loss it suffered in the last round against Al-Nasr 1-4, and return to the path of victories after winning in the first round against Al-Jazira 2-0.
Bani Yas is distinguished by the strength of its attacking line, especially since it has scored 10 goals since the beginning of the season, outperforming all the teams in the ADNOC Professional League.
In the second match, the match between Dibba Al-Hisn and Al-Bataeh is considered “historic”, as they have never met in the Professional League since the competition began in the 2008-2009 season.
The match comes amid a bad start for both teams with the start of the season, especially Dibba Al-Hisn, which did not present itself in the required manner, as it received two losses in the league against Sharjah 1-4, and against Al-Wasl 1-0, then fell to Bani Yas in the Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank Cup, losing 2-4 in the first leg and 0-3 in the second leg. Dibba Al-Hisn will enter the match in dire need of victory and collecting the three points, hoping to find technical stability, and fearing any decisions that may affect the Brazilian coach Caio Zanardi.
Al Bataeh seems to be in a relatively better position than Dibba Al Hisn, although they did not achieve victory in the league, after losing to Shabab Al Ahli 1-2, but they achieved the most difficult and forced a draw with Al Ain 3-3, after being behind by three clean goals, and they also bid farewell to the Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank Cup with difficulty, after losing to Al Jazira 1-3 in the first leg, and winning 2-1 in the second leg.
• The third round continues tomorrow with two heavyweight matches: Sharjah vs. Al Jazira and Al Wasl vs. Al Nasr.
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