Al Sadd go head to head against Al Wakrah in round twenty of the Qatar Stars League. The match will take place at the Al Sadd stadium on Saturday afternoon.Al Sadd have been knocked out of the AFC Champions league and are second in the table. The Wolves will be looking to raise their team morale with a win.

Jesualdo Ferreira, head coach of Al Sadd, said “We prepare to win in every match, At the moment no one in the club is happy because of our exit out of the AFC Champions league. The game against Al Wakrah will be just like our other games in the league in which we showed strong performances.”

Speaking about the exit from the Champions League, Ferreira added, “I am very proud of the performance of my team in Tehran, this is a team that I know, and I salute the players on the performance they gave in Tehran.”

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Al Wakrah are bottom of the table with thirteen points from nineteen games. The Waves will be looking to get a much-needed win against a difficult team.

Kais Yâakoubi, the head coach of Al Wakrah, had this to say about his opponents, “We are playing Al Sadd coming out of a Champions League defeat so their morale might not be very high. But strong teams never give up. We are not scared of them and we will fight for the three points.”

“I think we lost two points against Gharafa, especially in the second half I think we didn’t give many crosses. We have to give Ibara many crosses so he can score. This match against Al Sadd will be very hard to win for us and vice versa because now we are defensively stronger,” added the Tunisian head coach.

Speaking about absences Yâakoubi added, “They have three or four players who can’t play this match but they have the solution because they have much depth in their squad. I think we will win this match because we are not scared of them.”