On the occasion of the memories of the 2019 Asian Nations Cup, the Saudi team faces its Lebanese counterpart on Thursday in a friendly meeting closed to the media as they prepare for the Asian finals, which begin a few days later in the Qatari capital of Doha and run until February.
Italy’s Roberto Mancini, head coach of the Saudi national team, has chosen to set up a camp preceding the continental finals, where Lakhdar has three friendly clashes before the group stage, starting with Lebanon, Palestine and finally Hong Kong.
Mancini has started the Asian Cup preparatory trip since September, at the Green Camp in Newcastle, England, during which he had two friendly clashes against Costa Rica, losing 3-1 to South Korea and losing unanswered.
The second stage of preparation for the continental tournament was the October camp in Portugal’s Lagos, during which Green also had two friendly clashes against Nigeria, ending in a 2-2 draw and then Mali’s 3-1 defeat.
Mancini inaugurated his triumph with Green in official matches, beating Pakistan by a clean quartet in the first round of Asia’s 2026 World Cup qualifier, before continuing his triumph by beating Jordan by two goals.
Mancini’s selections faced a lot of criticism about the absence of some very experienced names, led by Salman Al-Faraj, the Saudi captain who only attended the Portuguese camp and missed it before it in Newcastle and after. He did not even appear on the preliminary list of Greens in the Asian finals.
The Saudi Green manager announced the reduction of his list to 26 players and decided to disqualify the quartet Mohammed Al-Yami, Ali Hazazi, Mohamed Maran and Khalid Al Ghanam, to settle the final names with which he will contest
Nawaf al-Aqaidi, Raghad Najjar and Ahmed al-Kassar were guarded. Hassan Kadash, Aoun al-Sulli, Ali al-Belehi, Ali Lajami, Hassan al-Timbukti, Sa ‘ud Abdul Hamid, Fawaz al-Saqqar, Ayman and Ayman Yyman Yyman Yahman and Abdullah Abdullah al al al al-Khu’
In the midfield of Abdul Ilah al-Maliki, Mukhtar Ali, Faysal al-Ghamdi, Eid al-Maulid, Salim al-Dosari, Abbas al-Hassan, Nasser al-Dosari, Mohammed Know and Sami al-Najai, Fahad al-Muhammad al-Mughammadi, Abdahid, Abdul Gharem, salim al-Dawid al-Dusi, al al al-DawSawsary, Aba ‘
It is worth mentioning that Lakhdar Saudi Arabia attends the sixth group finals of the Asian Nations Cup next to the teams of Thailand, Kyrgyzstan and Oman, where it will open its continental campaign against Amman on January 16, and then Kyrgyzstan on January 21.
