The Sharjah team will receive its counterpart Al Wahda at 7:30 pm today, in the top matches of the tenth round of the ADNOC Professional League, while two matches will also be held today under the slogan “Away from the specter of relegation,” as Bani Yas hosts Al Bataeh, while Ajman is a guest of Al Orouba. The round matches will be completed tomorrow with three matches, bringing together Al Jazira with Al Ain, Al Nasr with Khor Fakkan, and Dibba Al Hisn with Kalba, while the last matches of the round that brings together Shabab will be held next Tuesday. Al-Ahly and Al-Wasl.
In the smiling emirate, Al Wahda, third with 18 points, are a heavy guest on Sharjah (the leaders) with 24 points, in a confrontation that does not accept half-measures for the two teams as part of their efforts to compete for the title.
The pressure is increasing on the visiting team aspiring to return from Sharjah Stadium with three points in order to continue its presence in the title competition and reduce the gap with the leaders.
Al-Wahda players realize that a loss means the team is largely out of the competition. It may even keep “The Excellencies” away from third place, with more than one club approaching it, specifically Al-Jazira, Al-Nasr and Al-Ain.
Al-Wahda suffered fluctuations in level and results over the past nine rounds, and the team lost nine points from drawing in three matches and losing in one match, compared to winning in five matches, but its chances in the competition are still strong, and may become stronger in the event of a victory over Sharjah.
For his part, “The King” is taking steady steps to maintain the lead after the difficult victory he achieved in the last round against Ajman with an unanswered goal, and receiving a valuable gift from Khor Fakkan, which tied favorably with Shabab Al-Ahly with a goal for each, widening the gap with its closest pursuers to four points. .
The Al Wahda match represents a strong test for Romanian coach Elario Cosmin and his players, who are giving the best performance together, which has made Sharjah one of the strong candidates to win the league title this season.
As part of the struggle to escape the specter of relegation and improve positions, Bani Yas will receive Al Bataeh at 16:45 pm in a difficult confrontation for the two teams, which are not experiencing their best conditions in the league championship.
The huge loss that Baniyas suffered against Al Ain in the last round pushed it to fall to tenth place, only three points behind the penultimate place, while Al Bataeh suffers greatly in terms of results, losing seven consecutive matches, as it only obtained four points. He collected it from winning one match and drawing a similar match.
This confrontation may greatly determine the future of Croatian coach Goran Tomic with Al-Raqi in the coming period, after the administration gave him the full opportunity despite the poor results.
In the third match, Al-Orouba is searching with all force for victory against Ajman to get out of the difficult situation it is in in the competition table, while being in last place with only three points, which is the ambition of Ajman itself, which received two successive losses from Al-Jazira 0-4 and from Sharjah 0-1, to retreat. To 11th place with only seven points.
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