Al Sailiya coach Sami Trabelsi spoke to the media ahead of their 2021-2022 season QNB Stars League Week 2 match against Al Shamal.

“The Al Shamal team has great ambition to present a good season and facing them will be very difficult. We have worked to prepare the players well for the match, especially at the psychological level, and we know that the Al Shamal team will try to compensate for their loss in the first round and will give off their best, so we must prepare well. We must stay focused throughout the match and stay away from committing mistakes that occurred in our previous match against Al Sadd.

“We started the match with caution and the reason was the psychological factor for many of the players that made us leave our focus in the first half hour. But then the players started feeling free at the psychological level and we appeared in a different way and it was possible to turn around the fortunes.

“I hope we will achieve a positive result against Al Shamal. We have a lot of matches ahead of us this season and we must play all matches with high concentration. We have great confidence in the capabilities of our players and they still have time to show off their best,” said Trabelsi.

Al Sailiya player Mohammed Salah El Neel said, “I have great confidence in my team’s ability to present a strong match against Al Shamal team, considering that winning and collecting their first three points this season will motivate them in the upcoming matches.

“We know that facing Al Shamal will be difficult and it is no less important than the last match against Al Sadd, during which we appeared with a not-so-bad performance, especially in the second half.”