Al Shahania coach Jose Murcia spoke to the media ahead of their 2024-2025 season Ooredoo Stars League Week 20 match against Al Shahania.

“We are excited to face Al Ahli and hope to achieve a positive result. This match represents an opportunity to demonstrate our strength and the true level of the team. We are prepared from all technical, psychological and tactical perspectives and everyone is highly focused.

“In the previous match against Al Shamal, there were minor details that we paid a heavy price for, and they cost us the match. We have worked on correcting our mistakes over the past period and our goal in the upcoming match is to avoid mistakes, exploit our strengths and play with focus in order to achieve victory. I also always ask the players to be disciplined in training, and they always demonstrate this,” said Murcia.

Al Shahania player Andreas van Beek said, “We have turned the chapter on the previous match against Al Shamal because we did not achieve what we had planned. We have learnt our lessons from that match and prepared well for the match against Al Ahli.

“We spoke to each other as players after the previous match and we agreed on the need to avoid mistakes and work together to regain our strength and focus from the first whistle until the end of match.”