Al Akhdar are looking to improve their performance when they face their American counterpart in an international friendly at the Nueva Condomina Stadium in the Spanish city of Murcia on Tuesday in preparation for the World Cup final in Qatar.
The Greens, who have made it to the World Cup final for the sixth time, are in Group C along with Argentina, Mexico and Poland, while the US team is in the second group which includes England, Wales and Iran.
Our team drew 0:0 with Ecuador last Friday, while the US team also lost 0:2 to their Japanese counterpart on Friday.
The two teams have met 6 times, including two Confederations Cup matches and 4 friendly matches, Al-Akhdar won two matches, while Team USA won three matches and drew once.
Al Akhdar didn’t perform as expected in his last match despite a great equalizer with a great contribution from the brilliant goalkeeper Mohammed Al Owais, but he hopes to prove himself differently and deliver the performance required of him.
Hervé Renard is expected to make some changes to the squad in order to learn more about the levels of most of the players, especially since in the last match some of them were absent due to injuries, such as captain Salman Al-Faraj and defender Hassan Timbukti.
Al-Akhdar includes a group of prominent names such as Muhammad Al-Owais, Abdul-Ilah Al-Omari, Sultan Al-Ghannam, Saud Abdul-Hamid, Muhammad Kanu and Salem Al-Dosari.
On the other hand, the US team is looking to overcome the loss to Japan by relying on a large group of players active in European leagues such as Arsenal goalkeeper Matt Turner, AC Milan defender Serginio Dest, Borussia Dortmund midfielder Giovanni Reina and Juventus “. midfielder Weston McKinney. After the draw with Ecuador, the head of the Football Association, Yasser Al-Mishal, confirmed that the level presented by Al-Akhdar in the match against Ecuador was better than the level that was at the previous training camp, which was held in June last year, especially since he faced a strong a team that finished fourth in South America qualifiers and drew with Argentina during qualifiers.
“We have the third and final stage of the preparation program and we hope that the players will benefit from this and will be the best prepared for the World Cup,” he added.
Al-Mishal pointed out that French coach Herve Renard does not want to show his cards in friendly matches, and the October matches will be held without public presence and television broadcast, and all of them will be held in Abu Dhabi, except for the last match against Croatia, which will be in Riyadh , and the coach will give all the players the opportunity to make the best combination possible before the World Cup.
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