Al Kharaitiyat coach Bertrand Marchand (right)

Al Shahaniya is the other team apart from Al Shamal to have been promoted this season. And due to changes in the schedule, they will be playing their first match only today where they will take on Al Kharaitiyat.   

Shahania head coach Miguel Lotina is taking this late start as an advantage because he has been able to study the other teams. “Honestly these 15 days has been very good for us, I know we are the last team to play but we are very well prepared and our players are very eager to get started. We have an advantage because we have seen all of our opponents and as yet they haven’t seen us play, this gives us a slight tactical advantage, we have a good group of young players and their enthusiasm is very encouraging.”

Kharaitiyat coach Bertrand Marchand has seen his team draw their opening match against Shamal and is looking to rectify the errors which prevented them from winning. “The two week break gave us a lot of time to prepare and so we took this time seriously, we are ready and excited to face a newly promoted team to the league. I think we still have a lot of areas to improve in, the last match we made things difficult for ourselves. We worked on some things in training and so hopefully we will be better in our match this Friday,” said Marchand.

 

 

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