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Abu Dhabi – Teams from United Arab Emirates and Qatar eagerly await another step on the road to success AFC 2019 Football Championship When they meet Tuesday in the semi-finals of the tournament.
Before the beginning of this edition organized by the United Arab Emirates until early February, each of the two candidates did not receive the necessary bean to reach this stage of the current tournament, but the support of the United Arab team (white) and his supporters went to the semifinals and the Qatari team (Annabi) to the same role.
The two teams now dream of continuing the race for the continental title, which none of them has ever won.
Whatever the winner of the match tomorrow, the Arab ball will be the biggest winner with a place in the final of this tournament after missing the final in the last two versions in 2011 and 2015.
The two teams will meet on Tuesday at Al Jazeera's Mohammed Bin Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi, where both sides will lock in a traffic visa for the final Friday at the Madinat Zayed Sports Center in Abu Dhabi.
In the medium term, the UAE did not play in the first round, especially in the match against Thailand, nor in the match against Kyrgyzstan in the second round.
But the match against Australia in the quarterfinals confirmed that the team had regained the confidence of fans filled with stages "Hazza bin Zayed".
Now, the crowd should be the most powerful weapon for whites in this difficult and decisive position at the Mohammed Bin Zayed stadium, with a capacity of more than 37,000 places.
The enthusiasm aroused by the match is compounded by the stalemate between the United Arab Emirates and Qatar after the boycott of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt against Qatar since mid-2017.
As a result, the last two days have been marked by a high participation rate and a fierce fight to get the attendance ticket for this elimination match.
The other powerful weapon on which the UAE depends depends on the morale of the team, which has increased enormously after the precious victory over the Australian champions.
Although the team beat Australia for one goal, the match, style of play and enthusiasm of the players confirmed that the UAE team could compete and progress in the tournament.
The team, led by Italian coach Alberto Zaccheroni, is eager to capitalize on this morale boost and support, on the one hand, and the team's potential, on the other, to win another victory. who places the team in the final.
But the team must first transform the mbad pressure into energy and momentum into the green rectangle.
The UAE team's level in the current tournament was marked by a 1/1 draw hard against Bahrain in the opening match, then beat the stubborn 2-0 Indian team for qualify for the second round before his third match in group A, which ended in a 1-1 draw by his Thai.
In the second round of the tournament, the Whites beat Kyrgyzstan, stubborn, 3/2 after a further overtime, before winning a historic 1-0 win against Australia in the quarter-finals.
For their part, the Qatari team (Annabi) eliminated South Korea and the defending champions by beating them in the quarterfinals with a blank goal, a result identical to the one that allowed the Iraqi team to win the eighth final.
In the first round, the Qatari team won three consecutive victories against Lebanon 2-0, North Korea 6-0 and Saudi Arabia 2-0, which means the team scored 12 goals in this tournament and has not been beaten yet.
With a first-round win for the Golden Box, Annabi's morale has improved considerably.
The team also draws another weapon from its precious victory over the Iraqi team in the round of 16 when the team was not at its best but won, which means that the team has the ability to win even if she did not get the same level as for the rest of her matches.
Al-Bayed took advantage of the crowd's support in the quarterfinals, which forced the Australian champions to return in the same direction as in the last edition in 2015 when Australia ousted the Japanese team quarterfinals, also noting that he was the title holder at the time.
But the team suffered some of the losses during this match because of an injury to more than one player.
Zaccheroni's challenge is aggravated by the loss of players Mohammed Gharib and Fares Gomaa, while his teammate Khamis Ismael is suspended after his suspension.
On their side, Al-Annabi will be absent during the game of Golden Square players, Abdul Aziz Hatem and Bbadam Al-Rau, suspended because of warnings while Abdul Karim Hbadan and Assem Madibo would be present.
Coach Zaccheroni is expected to push the Spanish and Spanish giants Felix Sanchez to Annabi with the strength of his team in the starting lineup of Tuesday's game, both seeking to resolve the game in overtime after the big effort made in both last matches of the sixteenth and quarter-finals.
The defense of both teams faces a daunting challenge as the UAE attack leads the dangerous player Ali Mabkhout, who has proved his seriousness by the rapidity of his imagination and seized crucial opportunities, including this goal in the # 39; goal of the Australian team to take stock of the current version to four goals and to be crowned top scorer of the version pbaded in 2015 with Five goals
Mabkhout is the top scorer in the Arab Champions League with nine goals.
Al-Mu'izz Ali Al-Anabi is the current tournament's top scorer with seven goals, but all came in the first round, while the player has not scored a goal in his last two games and seeks to regain his sense of purpose.
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