The green team imposed a date against their South Korean counterparts in the final price round of the 2023 Asian Cup, after confirming their Group F leaders after a negative draw with their Thailand counterparts on Thursday at the Educational City Stadium at the conclusion of their continental championship group stage.
Saudi Arabia’s green team raised their tally to seven points, enhancing their position at the top, two points above Thailand in second place, which meets Uzbekistan in the last 16.
Green Saudi Arabia renews the meeting with South Korea for the fifth time in the Asian Championship after four previous confrontations, during which the taste of loss was not known as “two wins and two draws.”
The Italian Roberto Mancini, the Green coach, kept the duo Salem Al Dusri Kyrgyzstan “, Ali Balehi, and made nine changes to his basic composition, compared to those that had faced Kyrgyzstan” 20 “in the last round, Pragd Al-Najjar, goalkeeper, Aoun Al-Sulli, Abdullah Al-Khibri, Hassan Kadesh, Fawaz al-Saqr, Mukhtar Ali, Faisal al-Ghamdi and Abdullah Rudev and Abd al-Rahman Gharib, instead of Ahmed al-Kassar, goalkeeper, and Hassan Timbukti s rights “, Ali Lajami, Mohammed Al-Brik, Mohamed Know, Abdullah Al-Maliki, Sa ‘ud Abdul-Hamid, Sami Al-Najai and Faras Al-Barikan.
Saudi Arabia’s Lakhdar dominated the course of the first half, without being able to find his rival’s net, although he had a chance to score from the spot, but it was wasted by Abdullah Rudev, after being blocked by Saranon Anwen, Thailand’s goalkeeper, “12”.
The failure to score in the first half is the second for the Saudi team during their participation in the current edition of the continental tournament, after the opening clash against Oman, in which he waited until the second half, to score two goals that turned his deficit into a valuable “2.1” win.
Mancini, the Saudi head coach, made three changes during the second half, seeking to increase the effectiveness of Lakhdar, and ordered the entry of Mohammed al-Brik, Talal Haji and Nasser al-Dosari, instead of Faisal al-Ghamdi, Abdullah Rudev and Hassan Kadesh, and followed him with two final exchanges.
