Saudi confrontation of big caliber between Ahli and Hilal

Al-Ahly will meet Al Hilal on Tuesday in a purely Saudi heavyweight match, which will be played by King Abdullah Stadium in Jeddah, in the AFC Champions League semi-finals on Tuesday.

It will not be without the excitement of Tuesday and the clubs, which have become a feature of the majority of their matches in local and foreign tournaments, and who will launch each of their cards to defeat each other and get closer to the next round of the continental championship and give a significant dose of players before the start of the season after two weeks.

Al Ahli is qualified for this role after finishing a Group D match with 9 points, winning 3 games and losing the same.

Al-Ahli is entering a new season, especially for the technical staff led by Croatian coach Branko Ivankovic.

Ivanovic has a lot of experience in Asian football after leading the Chinese Shandong Luneng to the national title in 2010, Persepolis to the Iranian title three times, and leads this one in the Champions League semifinal of the 39, AFC in 2017 and final the following year before moving during the summer. To Ahli.

Al Ahli set up a camp in Austria, where he played five friendlies, all of whom were well known and who showed the coach the preparation of his players and who stopped at their level.

Ahli relies on Daniel Alexic, four times foreigner, on the Brazilian Joseph De Souza, the Syrian Omar Soumah and Djanini Tafares of Cape Verde.

For his part, Al Hilal qualified for this role after the third group with 13 points earned on 4 wins and a draw against the defeat in one match.

The team, which has hired Romanian coach Razvan Lucisco, has not made any changes to his team, except to attract South Korean defender Jang Hyun when he bought Peruvian player Andrio's card Carillo, who was loaned to him last season. Salem Al Dosari.

Al Hilal played 6 friendly matches in his camp in Austria, winning some of them with excellent results, reaching 10 and 11 goals, before beating his last friendly match against Udinese 3- 2.

Al Hilal includes Korea's Jang Hyun (fourth seed), Italian Sebastien Juvenko, Peruvian Carillo and French striker Pavitimbe Gomes.

International Arbek Mohamed Al-Brik is responsible for his coach after a knee injury at training last Saturday and his participation against Al-Ahli is uncertain.

The Brik is one of the most prominent elements of current Saudi football where it plays high-quality offensive and defensive roles until it becomes one of the keys to the important game and the starting point of the attacks. against the Crescent or the national team.

If he is not able to participate, the coach will transfer Ybader Al Shahrani from the left back to the right and will rely on Hbadan Kadesh for the left back.

The match between Al Ahli and Al Hilal at the Al Jawhara stadium will be the first between the continent and the seventh tier abroad: they have already won 6 victories in the Arab Championship and the preference was Al Hilal, who won 3 games against 2 games and one loss. .