
Al Wakrah head coach Goran Tufegdzic
“Today we will have our last training session. We have done our analysis about Sailiya. We have also analyzed our mistakes in our loss to Al Ahli. For us, each match is important, each point is important. In our previous match, we played well on the whole but we had a few individual mistakes which cost us the match. “
“All players are ready for the next match. No one is injured.”
“The feeling is positive in the dressing room. The team does need a little bit of luck though. Against Ahli we played well but we conceded three goals in eight minutes and that too was because of individual mistakes. We had controlled the match before that. We need our players to play with full concentration and also stick to the team strategy throughout the entire match.”
“Sailiya are a great team. Their players know how to play for results and also have a big will to win. They play aggressive - in a positive way and are always very compact in defence. It will be a very difficult match for us.”
“We have too much quality in this team to be in this position right now. We have played decent football but we have been a bit unlucky. We have four 'finals' left and a win tomorrow will set us moving in the right direction.”
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Al Sailiya head coach Sami Trabelsi
“This is a very important game for both teams. We need to take points because we have lost quite a few in the last few games. We need to give the same performance that we had against Shahania. With so many games in such a short period, we are focusing on quick recovery of the players. Wakrah have a lot of good players with good individual quality. Hopefully we will be ready and we will have success against them.”
“I don't like to talk about results. Instead I will talk about the performance. We don't have stability in our performances. We have seen that in some games, the players are playing with good fighting spirit and in the other matches we react too late. Our problem is that we don't play all games with the same fighting spirit. In some games we take it easy and end up losing points.”
“We will try to win all games - that is a given but if we get nine points from the four remaining matches, that will satisfy me.”
“Wakrah have a lot of good players and if we see their statistics for the first half of the season, they were the best team in the league. They had good performances - individual and collective. At that time, they were even better than Sadd, Lekhwiya and other big names. But right now, the atmosphere inside the team is not so good.”
“They are in a bad state now and they will be going all out to win the remaining four games to ensure that they don't get relegated. So that will make it difficult for us. But the pressure will still be on Wakrah and not us.”