Match kick-off at 20:15 Jassim bin Hamad stadium
 
Al Sailiya head coach Sami Trabelsi
“We haven't had a lot of time to prepare. We have worked only on recovering our fitness. Sadd is a team with titles and victories. They have good quality - individual and collective. And they have players with lots of experience. We will try to do our best and take three points.”
 
“It's not that difficult to play against a team like Sadd. The reality is on the field. We know that Sadd have good players who push you to respect them. But we will play our football with fighting spirit and the better team will win this game and I hope that it will be us.”
 
“Of course they have to win this match if they want to compete for the title. But with just six games left, it will be difficult for them. We will try to do our best and play with total concentration because in these kinds of games, you can lose focus for just a few moments and end up losing.”
 
“Until the 15th game this season, we were at the same level of points like last season. But after that we had a string of bad results. We are not thinking about the last season. But I think we are affected, like 2-3 other teams, by the decision to restrict the foreign players to three. Because, we as a team, don't have many choices when it comes to players. And we needed this fourth player to play. We started missing players in a few key positions like left-back for example. That affected us and that was the reason behind our bad results. Maybe we had a bad start to this season, but in some of those matches, we didn't deserve to lose.”
 

 
Al Sadd head coach Hussein Amotta
“Of course we still have a chance to win the title. We need to win all the games in order to stay close to the leaders. We had bad results in our previous two games. So we need to make sure we don't repeat it in our third game. This is our 10th game in one month. That is an overload for our players. The schedule didn't help us.”
 
“Sailiya are a good team this season too. They had a good game, coming from victory against Shamal. For us, we need to work more on our fitness. We cannot ask our players more than what they are giving. They haven't gotten enough time to recover. But I hope that we will be ready for this game.”
 
“The players on the bench are not at 100 per cent either. Some of them are coming from injuries and we have had absences for cards. Three important players were absent in the last game. And for this game, Ali Assad and Abdelkarim Hassan will be missing. Unfortunately this is our situation and the schedule isn't helping us recover our players.”
 
“When you are playing to win the league, you cannot get one point and be happy. We have to play for three points. In the game before the last one, we lost three players. They are coming back but now we lost two players for this game. And I think it will be difficult for us. This is game no. 10 in 35 days. Even professional players in Europe don't play these many games.”
 
“We have to focus on how we do on the field rather than looking at how Lekhwiya has done. That's what is in our hands and that's what we need to focus on.”
 
“We are not in second place because Lekhwiya played their games before us. But rather, it is simply because we missed our chances to win our games.”
 
“When you a coach Al Sadd, you are expected to win titles. I won the league title in my first year but we lost the Qatar Cup and the Emir Cup. Last season we lost the title but we won the Emir Cup and were the only team to be in the Asian Champions League. Now in the ACL we are first in our group. We are playing for the title in the league and we still have two other titles that we will play for. But that is normal for Sadd. I have played for Sadd and I know how it is. Even in the first game of the league, we will play with this pressure. We are used to it.”