Sharjah seeks to break the partnership with its guest, Jordanian Al-Wahdat, at eight o’clock this evening, at the top of the third group of the “AFC Champions League 2”.
The King enters the confrontation at the height of his readiness on the technical and moral levels, after the distinguished results achieved by the team since it began its season by winning all its official matches.
Romanian coach Olario Cosmin succeeded in leading Sharjah to achieve distinguished numbers in the seven matches he played in all tournaments, as he achieved the perfect score in the ADNOC Professional League, scoring 11 goals, while conceding only one goal, and he succeeded in reaching the quarter-finals of the Professional League Cup. After overcoming Khor Fakkan by winning back and forth with a score of 3-1.
Sharjah made its best start by winning its first match in the AFC Champions League over Tajikistan’s Esteghlal Dushanbe, with an unanswered goal.
“The King” put the crises he was exposed to at the beginning of the season by not signing new deals, behind his back, especially at the level of the spearhead position, but the veteran coach Olario Cosmin succeeded in making the best use of the cards available to him, and the quartet of Firas Balarabi and Caio Lucas shone. Ousmane Kamara and Luan Pereira.
Sharjah’s confrontation with Al-Wehdat will be their first on the continental level, as they have never met together on any occasion, while the Jordanian team previously met three Emirati teams in the preliminary rounds qualifying for the group stage of the AFC Champions League and lost them all.
Al-Wahdat’s first confrontation with Al-Wasl was in 1992, and it lost by one goal to three, then it returned 15 years later to face Al-Wahda in the decisive round of qualifying for the AFC Champions League, losing 3-0, which is the same result that was repeated against Shabab Al-Ahly last year for the same round of the tournament.
Al-Wahdat enters the confrontation with Sharjah armed with the lead in Group C on goal difference from Sharjah, after beating Iranian Sepahan Isfahan 2-1.
The Jordanian team did not know the taste of loss this season, as it played six matches in the local league and the Asian Championship, achieving victory in four matches and a draw on two occasions.
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