El Jaish VS Umm Salal, December 19, 18:30 at the Abdulla bin Khalifa stadium
 
El Jaish coach Abdelkader Megaseeb:
“El Jaish have always had good relationships with the Gulf countries. When Nabil Maaloul was called for the Kuwait post, the team management agreed to release the coach because of these good relations. And since I am the technical director for the youth teams, I was called in to lead during this transitional period. “
 
“I am happy to work with these talented players. The team needs a bit of tuning. We will work on this and try and get more points. Last season too we were in a similar state but came back strongly. We hope to repeat that this season too. The game against Salal is very important for us. We need to get back to winning ways before the break. El Jaish will do everything it can to regain the position it deserves.”
 


Umm Salal Assistant coach Thamer Abdullah:
“First of all, I would like to congratulate the Qatari people on the national day. We know where Umm Salal is in the rankings. The QSL has been strange these last two rounds. We won one game and we came back to the top 4. The game against El Jaish will be very difficult but we need to win this game and take three points in order to stay in third place in the rankings. We want to end on a high, specially because of the break.”
 
“Salal hasn't won against Jaish in a long time but we are ready. We have the confidence. We also know that Jaish will be trying to come back strongly but we will be ready for them. We have a strong defensive unit, the second best in the league right now but we conceded five goals in the last two games. So we are trying to resolve this. In the seven matches before that we conceded only once.”