The national team faces the “Uzbek” with one scenario

The national football team, at eight in the evening, is playing a strong confrontation against its Uzbek counterpart, nicknamed “White Wolves” at Al Nahyan Stadium in Abu Dhabi, within the ninth round of the last for the first group in the third round of the qualifiers for the 2026 World Cup.

The match is fateful and as the last chance against Al -Abyad to keep his chances to score the direct qualification card to the World Cup, in the event of winning and raising its score to 16 points, knowing that the victory today, as well as in the last match against Kyrgyzstan in the last round, in exchange for a loss or the Uzbek team tied against the Qatari in the last round, the team will qualify directly, and the team occupies the third place with 13 points, in the ranking of the group behind each of the teams. Iran is the leader with 20 points, Uzbekistan second with 17 points, the Qatari team is fourth with 10 points, Kyrgyzstan is the fifth with six points, and North Korea is in last place with only two points.

It is noteworthy that the meeting of the two teams in the fourth round matches ended with the victory of the Uzbek team with a clean goal, scored by the former Sharjah player, Ottabic Shokurov, from the penalty kick «76».

Although the task of “Al -Abyad” seems difficult, it is not impossible, and it can achieve the dream of being in the World Cup for the second time in its history after “Italy 1990”.

The new Romanian coach, Olario Cosmin, dreams of a strong start with the Emirates team in his first official appearance to succeed the former Portuguese coach, Paulo Pinto, who was recently sacked against the background of the decline in the team’s results.

Kozmin is betting on his winning papers, represented by Caio Lucas, Douan Pereira, Lima, Abdullah Hareb, Abdullah Ramadan, Kayo Kanedo, Ali Saleh, Majid Hassan and the rest of the elements.

Al -Abyad, who is expected to have great public support in the stands, ended his preparations for the match after he fought two closed camps, the first in Dubai included five training sessions, and the other in Abu Dhabi and during which he fought four training sessions.

Historically, the UAE and Uzbekistan teams met five times in the qualifiers for the World Cup, as it was previously faced in 1997 on two occasions, Al-Abyad won in the first (3-2), and they tied in the second without goals, as they also met on two occasions in 2001, and the UAE defeated and forth (4-1) and (1-0), and the last meeting between them in October last year was in this fourth round in this round in this round The qualifiers, and ended with the victory of Uzbekistan with a clean goal.

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Uzbekistan coach: The most important thing for us is how to deal with the match

Uzbekistan coach, Timor Kabadza, said that his team is in a very good situation, and that everything is going well before facing the Emirates team.

He added during the press conference: “Everyone is aware of the importance of the match for us, and I believe that the players are very ready.”

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The first group arrangement

1- Iran: 20 points

2- Uzbekistan: 17 points

3- Emirates: 13 points

4- Qatar: 10 points

5- Kyrgyzstan: 6 points

6- North Korea: two points

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