A meeting of heroes and elite between the youth of Al -Ahly and Al -Ittihad .. and Sharjah faces the dam with the scenario of Al -Gharafa

Al -Ahly youth are in a difficult confrontation in front of its Saudi Al -Ittihad at the “Development” stadium, at 9:15 pm today, in the second round of the AFC Champions League, while Sharjah will be a guest at the Qatari Gharafa at eight o’clock at the Jassim bin Hamad stadium in Doha.

In the first match, which brings together the UAE league champion and the Saudi champion, Al -Ahly’s youth, led by his Portuguese coach Paulo Souza, enters the meeting under double pressure after drawing in the first round at his stadium with the Iranian Tradition, which is a result that was not as ambitions, especially since the team was the closest to harvesting the full points in front of his fans, but he was satisfied with one point.

The “Dubai Knights” calls on the spirit of the Al-Wahda team, which succeeded in winning Al-Ittihad 2-1 in the first round at Al Nahyan Stadium, and the exploitation of the latter’s condition, which was recently lost to victory 0-2 in the Saudi League, which prompted the club’s management to dismiss the French coach Laurent Blanc.

In the second match, Sharjah is looking forward, led by his Serbian coach, Milos Meloyevic, to repeat the scenario of his victory in the first round over the Qatari Al-Gharafa 4-3, in the match that witnessed the “crazy scenario”, as the “king” succeeded in turning the table over the Qatari team after the latter was ahead of two goals without a response in the first half, to collect the first three points in his score.

The last confrontation between Sharjah and the dam was held in November 2023, and ended with the latter’s victory with two goals without a response in the AFC Champions League 2023-2024 season, and today’s match is a Gulf summit.

Sharjah, crowned the AFC Champions League 2 last season, passes through very difficult circumstances for its results in the ADNOC Professional League, and his exposure to two consecutive losses against Ajman and Al -Wasl in the fourth and fifth rounds for the team to decline to the tenth place with only four points, which makes it difficult for his mission against the dam with the great history as the AFC Champions League in 2011, and the Qatari champion of the season Last.

Sharjah coach Milos is betting on a group of distinguished players, such as Caio Lucas, Ray Manaj, Peru, Vita Vitai and the rest of the team.

On the other hand, Al-Gharafa wants to win the three points at home and in front of his fans, after he drew in the first round against the Iraqi police 1-1 and won only one point, at a time when he also tied in his last match in the Qatari league with the Al-Duhail team without goals, and the team, which the Spanish Felix Sanchez coach, is sixth place in the ranking of the Qatari league teams with eight points, and includes in its ranks a group of distinguished players, among them is good Al -Hidus and Akram Afif.