Al Sadd coach Felix Sanchez spoke to the media ahead of their 2024-2025 season Ooredoo Stars League Week 12 match against Al Shamal.

“We will start the second half of the league, we know that we faced many difficulties with Al Shamal in the first match of the league, we are fully aware that we will face a team that achieves very good results, and has offensive strength and good organization.

“We have experience from the first match with them and we are looking forward to starting the league again with enthusiasm and I believe that the players are ready and excited to return.

“We now know that every match has become more important to get points, if we want to compete for the title, we have a very important match against Al Shamal and we must play at our highest level.

“Of course, a long time has passed without official matches and there were different circumstances for some players, there were players with the national team and they had a different schedule from the players who were working here, now we are all together in the past few days. Certainly our thinking now is towards returning to official competitions,” said Sanchez.

Al Sadd player Yousef Al Balooshi said, “A difficult match awaits us, we must focus and avoid making mistakes, we will try to implement the coach’s instructions in order to collect the three points.

“The competition continues in order to reach the top, we are moving step by step and do not look at the rest of the teams. Our goal is to work hard to continue achieving more victories.”