Kalba’s Serbian coach, Rasovitosh, expressed his happiness with the draw with Shabab Al-Ahly without goals, the day before yesterday, at Rashid Stadium in the eighth round of the ADNOC Professional League, noting that Kalba succeeded in dealing with the match, as it is not easy to face a big team in its stadium, in There remained five influential absences in the team, as he put it.
Kalba succeeded in snatching a draw point against Shabab Al-Ahly, causing the latter to lose the first two points in the tournament, and fall to second place with 19 points, behind “leader” Sharjah with 21 points, knowing that Shabab Al-Ahly team has a postponed match against Al-Ain, while Kalba succeeded in Reaching point 11.
Rasovitosh told Emirates Today: “It was a difficult match against a team competing for the lead. It is not easy to lose this number of players when you face a team the size of Shabab Al-Ahly. I spoke a lot with the players about the necessity of presenting a strong match and returning with a positive result, after we succeeded.” We closed the gaps and closed the spaces with good defense.” He added: “Kalba definitely deserves a draw point. Dealing with the absences was difficult, but we promise the public and the board of directors to make an effort and give everything we have in order to try to reach the competition and provide a good season.”
Shabab Al-Ahly took complete control of the match with a possession rate of 76.9%, compared to only 23.1% for Kalba, which dealt with the match with a defensive bloc to close Shabab Al-Ahly’s spaces and make its players lose their threat.
The match witnessed several absences, most notably the absence of Iranian Mehdi Qaidi (the team’s top scorer) and a number of other players, due to the loan system from the Shabab Al-Ahly team, while Iranian striker Sardar Azmoun and national team star Hareb Abdullah were absent from Shabab Al-Ahly.
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