Saudi Arabia top soccer team began their dual qualifying campaign for the 2026 World Cup and 2027 Asian Cup ideally after a big and crushing victory over Pakistan’s hosts 4-0, during the clash embraced by Al Fatah Stadium in Al Ahsa in the first round of Group G competition for the second round of qualifying.
The green quartet came over the course of the two halves through Saleh al-Shahri “6 and 48 from the penalty spot”, Abderrahman Ghraib “90 + 1” and Abdullah Rudev “90 + 6”.
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The Saudi team will be a guest of its Jordanian counterpart at the Amman International Stadium on Tuesday, and Pakistan will host their Tajik counterparts on the same day in the second round of the Asian qualifiers.
Roberto Mancini of Italy successfully led Saudi Arabia to victory in their first official meeting with the team after being appointed as the successor to French coach Hervé Renard a few months ago.
The draw was signed by Saudi Arabia in Group VII with the teams “Jordan, Pakistan and Tajikistan”, and will be their second match in this international break against Jordan on November 21.
the superstar Salem Al-Dosari, al-hilal club player, was excluded from the first-team roster on the basis of the medical report submitted by the team’s medical staff, by the inability of the player to participate in the next two games against Pakistan and Jordan
Salem al-Dosari was absent after press reports confirmed that his absence from the courts would be two to three weeks, as a result of two injuries, the first a second-degree rupture of his ankle, and the second a first-degree rupture of his knee.
