Match kick-off at 16:45 Thurs, Feb 5th, 2015 in the Jassim bin Hamad stadium. 

Al Sadd coach Hussein Ammouta
“It is more difficult to come back after a break especially when you are at the top of the table. Now we are starting the competition and we are expecting a very difficult game.”
 
“We have had a few players leaving the squad and a few coming in. Unfortunately the players who left us are more important than those who came in. We lost two players (Rodrigo Tabata and Hamid Ismael), who were ready and performed well for us. And we have Tahir Zakaria who came back from Al Arabi but he's not ready to play immediately. And Mouriqui isn't ready either. So I think that our team lost good players compared to other teams. We are weaker than before. New player Grafitti is still training.”
 
“Wakrah are an organised team and they were able to prepare during this break. They are more ready than us for this game. We have new players and so they are more ready than us.”
 
“I will never give up on the title. Despite the difficult circumstances I will fight for the title. We do not have quality for substitutions on our bench. But I will be looking to train the players mentally and their vast experience should help the team during this period. In 25 days we will play 7 games. This is a very difficult period for us since we will have to play so many games with just 11-13 players. So in this period the bench becomes even more important.”
 
“Khalfan is ready after he came back from the national camp. He took just three days break and played against Al Rayyan in the Qatar Gas League too.”
 
 

Al Wakrah coach Nouredin Zekri
“We hope that we will start our competition with a strong result. We have been preparing for one month. We have been preparing for all the 11 games and not just this game. Al Sadd have good quality players. But we have been preparing ourselves to take a positive result against the leader. We know everything about them and so we hope to have a good result.”
 
“I wish we didn't have this break considering the way we played in the last 2 to 3 games. We showed good fighting spirit. During this break I have tried to keep that mentality in the minds of the players.”
 
“You can see the level of play during the game. Both teams are under pressure and of course we will try to manage this pressure. Only on the field will we be able to make out who is the big team and who is the smaller one. We are confident because we have had good performances against big teams.”
 
“I came to Wakrah to build this team. We have made some targets. The first target is to stay in the first league this season. And the long term target is to prepare the team for the next year to be more competitive.”

"We have big ambitions here. To be realistic, I am resolving problems until now and trying to take a place in the middle of the table come the end of the season.”