Al Sadd’s Jesualdo Ferreira and striker Baghdad Bounedjah were named QNB Stars League’s best coach and best player respectively for the months of November and December.
Under Ferreira, Al Sadd played five matches in the 2018-19 season QNB Stars League’s Weeks 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15) and won all of them, collecting the full quota of 15 points. Ferreira’s men scored 27 goals while conceding just four, with 56 shots on target and 13 against it. According to STATS, the official statistics and figures provider for the QNB Stars League, Al Sadd made an average number of 663 passes, of which 588 were successful. Short passes numbered 429 and forward passes 201. There were 18.8 crosses (7.2 from the left and 11.6 from the right). They also made 20 tackles and nine dribbles. Al Sadd made 66 final-third entries and 41 penalty-area entries. Shots for reached 23 and shots against eight. The average number of shots on target was 11.
Bounedjah, meanwhile, scored 10 goals and gave six assists in five matches. The two goals he scored against Al Shahania helped Bounedjah become the Qatar league’s all-time top scorer in a single season as he took his personal tally to 28 goals. The Algerian surpassed Brazilian striker Clemerson Soares’ record of 27 goals set in the 2007-08 season for Al Gharafa.
The technical analysis of Bounedjah released by STATS, the official statistics and figures provider for the QNB Stars League, showed he spent 476.0 minutes on the pitch. He made an average of 34.5 passes, of which 26.8 were successful. He scored all his goals from inside the box.
The physical aspects revealed that the ace striker covered a total distance of 9,272.6 metres with a high speed distance of 582.2.
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