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Al Bataeh returned from Sharjah Stadium with an important victory that raised its score to 14 points, moving away from the relegation zone by 5 points. Al Bataeh played the Sharjah match with a lineup consisting of Ibrahim Issa, who returned after the absence of Darwish Mohammed due to the loan clause, and in the defense line Dini, Rafa, Al Zayoudi and Saeed Juma, in the midfield Mohammed Pele, Neto, Aziz and Maliki, and in the attack Nicholas and Anatoly. Al Bataeh managed to score the winning goal in the 42nd minute of the first half. After the match, Al Bataeh coach Farhad Majidi said that the victory came at an important time that will give his team comfort to work in the upcoming matches. Majidi said that the team worked hard during the past period during training and that it presented great levels in previous matches, but it suffered from missing opportunities.
Al Bataeh coach Farhad Majidi spoke at the press conference introducing the Al Bataeh and Sharjah match, saying: The team’s upcoming match against Sharjah is very sensitive for us, and Sharjah is certainly a very good team, but our players have prepared well through serious training and are motivated for the match. Our position in the standings requires us to get points, and we will do everything necessary to come out with a positive result. Our team includes great players, and in the last match we did not come out with the desired result, and I believe that if the team comes out of this situation, it will play comfortably and achieve better results.
Team player Ibrahim Issa said, “We are ready for our upcoming match against Sharjah, and we hope to play a good match and come out with a positive result against a strong competitor to win the league championship. We respect our competitor, but our team includes distinguished players who can come out with a satisfactory result for us. The team performed wonderfully in many matches and deserved to win, but we were not successful. We have many matches left, and we can get out of our current situation
Al Bataeh coach Farhad Majidi spoke during the press conference introducing the Al Bataeh and Dibba Al Hisn match, saying, “Our upcoming match against will definitely be good and strong because both teams will try to win the match, and I think that a draw will not be beneficial for either team. It will be a very sensitive match due to the position of both teams, and because of that, I do not think that there will be many opportunities, and the team that takes advantage of the opportunities will win the match. I think that our position in the table affected the team a little, and we can see that in the Shabab Al Ahli and Al Ain match, we missed many opportunities in front of the goal, and this was an advantage for us to create many opportunities against such big teams.” The Uzbek first team player, Aziz Ganiev, said, “We are facing an important and strong match against Dibba Al Hisn, and our preparations were good with coach Farhad Majidi, who worked with us very hard, and we find it easy to implement his ideas, and this is what distinguishes us now.” He added, “Dibba Al Hisn has good players and a distinguished coach who I worked with previously, and we will try very hard to get the second points.” Ganiev said, “We do not feel the exact result, but we have comfort and trust in our abilities.”
Al Bataeh team lost its match against Al Ain by two goals to one, which came in the fifth round of the ADNOC Professional League Championship, which was held at Hazza Bin Zayed Stadium in Al Ain. The first half ended in a positive draw with a goal, as Al Ain took the lead with a goal, then Ahmed Al Zeyoudi equalized with a shot from outside the penalty area. In the second half, the match was balanced between the two teams, and Al Ain managed to score the second goal in the 68th minute. Al Bataeh tried to remedy the situation by scoring the equalizer with changes made by the team coach Farhad Majidi by bringing in Saud Khalil and Harouna. It is worth noting that the match witnessed the absence of the team’s top scorer, the Cameroonian Anatoli. After the match, the Al Bataeh coach stated in the press conference that the result was unfair, as his players played a great match and prevented Al Ain from creating chances in the match, and his players missed many chances. He said, “I thanked them in the locker room, and I trust them a lot.” When asked about strengthening the team’s ranks, he stated that he trusts the current group and informed the club’s management of that, and that there are young players who have a future awaiting them, and it is expected that they will benefit from them in the national team, such as Saud Khalil.
The Iranian coach of Al Bataeh team, Farhad Majidi, spoke at the press conference for the match between Al Bataeh and Shabab Al Ahli, saying: We will face one of the best teams in the league and we must play with high concentration. I told the players that we must not make mistakes in this match because Shabab Al Ahli has excellent players who can easily exploit mistakes. From my point of view, they have the best chance to win the league. We have trained well and we will enter the match to win. We have some difficulties due to the rules that prevent some players from participating against Shabab Al Ahli, but we certainly have a good alternative and we hope that we will succeed in the match.
Al Bataeh team player, Saud Khalil, spoke about the match and its importance, describing Shabab Al Ahli as a strong and big team and that an important match awaits us against distinguished players, but we are determined to present our best. Saud said about his coach, Farhad Majidi, that he is a distinguished coach and a distinguished former player and he knows what we want and we can apply his ideas in the match
In the framework of the matches of the thirteenth round and at the conclusion of the first round of the ADNOC Professional League, Al Bataeh was able to come out with a positive result from Al Nahyan Stadium at Al Wahda Club after defeating Al Wahda by two goals to nothing in the first match under the leadership of coach Farhad Majidi, where the two goals of Al Bataeh were scored by the Cameroonian player Anatoly Abang in the second half. To return to the course of the match, Al Wahda tried to score the lead goal by pressuring Al Bataeh from the beginning of the match, but Al Bataeh’s defense was cohesive and the team relied on counterattacks and quick transitions with the presence of Alvaro, Anatoly and Mohammed Juma. In the second half, Al Wahda entered strongly and missed many opportunities and collided with the strength of Al Bataeh’s defense and behind them the brilliant goalkeeper Darwish Mohammed. With this victory, Al Bataeh raised its score to 11 points in twelfth place in the standings.