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Yemen 0-2 Saudi Arabia.
Ball possession: 21% – 79%.
Saudi Arabia has more of the ball with over 72% at this point. Yemen has grown and takes advantage of the spaces left for the counterattack.
The match was more disputed in midfield.
Second half started with the same script as the first.
Yemen 0-2 Saudi Arabia.
Yemen 0-2 Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Arabia arrives easy. Al-Juwayr scored the team’s second goal.
Al-Nabet received a pass from Bamasud and opened the scoring for Saudi Arabia.
Each team finished once, but Saudi Arabia has almost 80% possession.
Saudi Arabia starts by exchanging more passes and dominating ball possession.
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Al Harsh; Al Rimi, Sahred, Al Radaei, Al Wajeeh; Al-Gahwashi, Al-Tiri, Al Matari; Gamal, Sabarah, Al Sarori.
Yemen comes into the match with a recent poor performance. There are 11 games without victories, 10 of them without scoring a goal. The last match with a positive result was on November 14, 2019, when he beat Palestine 1-0, in a duel valid for the World Cup qualifiers.
Al-Owais; Al-Ghannam, Al-Amri, Al Tambakti, Al-Boleashi; Al-Buraikan, Al-Hassan, Abdullamid, Al-Dawsari; Al-Shehri, Kanno.
Saudi Arabia arrives for the confrontation with a certain morale, after the World Cup with victory against Argentina and with good games against Mexico and Poland. The team reached the last match of the World Cup still with chances of qualifying, but ended up being defeated and eliminated from the competition.
The Yemen vs Saudi Arabia game will be played at Basra International Stadium, with a capacity of 65.227 people.
The first edition of the tournament was played in 1970, in Bahrain, when Kuwait won and amended a sequence of four straight titles. Of the 24 editions, Kuwait has won 10 times, followed by Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Iraq with three titles. The current champions are Bahrain, who defeated Saudi Arabia in 2019 to win their first title.
This year’s competition attracts great attractions, such as Saudi Arabia, which beat Argentina and played well in the World Cup. Qatar, the team that hosted the last edition of the World Cup, is also guaranteed.
The last edition was held in Qatar. in three stadiums: Khalifa International Stadium, Abdullah bin Khalifa Stadium and Al Janoub Stadium. The tournament served as a test for the country that hosted the last edition of the biggest football tournament in the world. The tournament was well contested and the semifinals featured balanced games, where Iraq beat Bahrain on penalties and Saudi Arabia defeated the hosts by 1-0.
In the decision, Bahrain beat Saudi Arabia 1-0 with a goal from Al-Romaihi. Ali Mabkhout, from the United Arab Emirates, was the competition’s top scorer with five goals.
The 25th edition of the Persian Gulf Cup will be played in Iraq from the 6th of January to the 19th of the same month. There will be eight teams divided into two groups with four teams; In Group A: Iraq, Yemen, Saudi Arabia and Oman. In Group B, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar and United Arab Emirates. Two from each quadrangular qualify, disputing a single game semifinal until the decision. Only two stadiums will host. The Basra International Stadium, with a capacity of 65,000 fans and the Al-Minaa Olympic Stadium, which has 30,000 available seats.