Al Ain awaits Jardim’s first impression in front of Al Orouba today

At 19:30 this evening, the Al Ain team will host Al Orouba at Dibba Stadium, in the eighth round of the ADNOC Professional Football League, in a match in which all eyes will be focused on the new coach, the Portuguese Leonardo Jardim, who took over the leadership of “Al Zaeem” succeeding the Argentine. Hernan Crespo.

Al Ain has eight points in eighth place (with two postponed matches), while Al Orouba is in penultimate place with three points.

Jardim will be required to lead the team to victory coupled with performance, especially since he will not get a second opportunity to make a first impression, and the victory will prove the validity of the decision taken by the Al Ain Club Board of Directors to sign him from among a group of names that were on the table, after a series of disappointing results that he achieved. “Purple” in the past matches.

The newcomer had a good opportunity to get to know most of the team’s players, except for the international players, who are doubtful about the possibility of all of them participating in today’s match. The team’s roster is full of a group of non-international players capable of making a difference and achieving a victory over Al-Orouba.

On the other hand, Al-Orouba seeks to get out of its crisis by returning to the path of victories, and its players realize that a victory, or at least a draw, against a competitor the size of an eye, will have its consequences, and will give the players a great morale boost.

The last two confrontations between the two teams in the 2021-2022 season ended in a 3-3 draw in the first leg and a 1-1 draw in the second leg.

In the confrontation that takes place at 16:40 at Khalid bin Mohammed Stadium, Al-Bataeh, who is in 12th place with four points, will receive Khor Fakkan, who is in 11th place, and has seven points in his tally, and unlike the previous season, the hosts are currently not performing as expected of them. Which makes today’s meeting an opportunity to correct the course. On the other hand, the guests enter the match with new technical leadership, after the task was assigned to the citizen coach, Abdul Majeed Al-Nimr, succeeding the Romanian coach, Isaela, who was dismissed. From his position.