Khaled Obaid: The league is gone to those who deserve it

The league title in Dubai. Shabab Alahli regains glory

Shabab Al Ahli beat Bani Yas 2-1 and clinched the league title. Cinematographer: Najeeb Mohammed

Shabab Al Ahli team won the ADNOC Professional League title, after an absence of 7 full seasons, specifically since the 2015-2016 season, which is the last season in which it was crowned the title, and the team succeeded in compensating for the lost title that was close to it in the Corona season 2019-2020, before the competition was canceled in the 19th round.

Shabab Al Ahli proved to be the most realistic team, although not the best in all periods of the season, but thanks to its board of directors and its technical and administrative staff, it succeeded in achieving the title intelligently dealing with various situations during the season, dealing with influential absences and a bad start that almost caused the dismissal of the coach, before all of this turned into victories that paved the way for winning the league title.

The Dubai Knights succeeded in dealing with the last match against Bani Yas in the 25th round and returning from Al Shamkha with the most expensive three points, after turning a goal behind against the owner of the land into a two-goal victory, to end the hopes of Al Ain and Al Wahda in the competition for the league title, after the two teams also won in the same round, to keep the struggle between them for second place in the last round.

The relegation struggle is still going on in the last round between Al Bataeh and Dibba, in a difficult situation with an advantage for Dibba team, despite Al Bataeh advancing in the standings table by two points, but the last round will go out in which Al Bataeh will face Al Ain, who competes for second place, while Dibba hosts Al Dhafra team officially relegated to the amateur league, which makes the last round strong and decisive.

The 25th round of the tournament witnessed strange and unexpected results, as Al Dhafra beat Al Jazira with a quadruple, and Al Nasr lost to Al Bataeh, to confirm the latter's superiority over Al Nasr after drawing with him in the first leg, and the strange thing is also the loss of Al Nasr from Dibba back and forth, which would have put Al Nasr at the heart of the relegation struggle before Sharjah settled the situation by drawing with Dibba in the 25th round.

Al Wasl and Al Ain played a strong match in the 25th round, during which the latter succeeded in winning, but it was not enough to maintain its title, but it kept it in second place, and at the heart of the competition for a qualified position for the AFC Champions League next season, and the round also witnessed a strong match that brought Ajman together with its guest Al Wahda in one of the difficult matches that smiled at the guest team.

And monitored «Emirates Today» a question about the most important reasons for winning Shabab Al Ahli Professional League title, a question on the social networking site «Twitter»: «Share our opinion .. What are the most important reasons why Shabab Al Ahli won the ADNOC Professional League title in one of the most difficult seasons of the Professional League? Four answers were spotted, namely coach Jardim, the club's system, superiority over all rivals, all of the above.

During the survey, 2943,40 respondents interacted with it, 37% chose all of the above, 3.14% went to coach Jardim, who restored the prestige of the team, then the club system 7.8%, and finally outperformed all competitors <>%.

For his part, technical analyst Khaled Obaid confirmed the eligibility of Shabab Al Ahli team to win and crown the title, pointing out that the team served itself and was able to win the full system and the technical and administrative staff, although it was not one of the candidates, but it played within its capabilities, and took advantage of the flops of others to come out a winner of the title. Khalid Obaid told Emirates Today: "Shabab Al Ahli did not lose any match in the second round against any rival team, which means its strength, although it played all the difficult and fateful confrontations away from home, including the matches of Sharjah, Al Ain, Al Wahda, Al Jazeera, and did not lose any match to confirm that it is the most realistic team."

He added: «Shabab Al-Ahli did not compete with one or two teams, but there was strong competition between seven teams until the last rounds, although the technical level of the tournament in general was not at the required level, but it was sufficient in the competition of teams».

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