Yesterday, Saturday, Al-Tawfiq left our national team to lose to Poland with a clean double in a match that brought the two teams together at Education City Stadium in front of 45,000 spectators in the second round of the group stage. World Cup 2022 in Qatar.
Al Akhdar started the match with early attacking pressure as they had the advantage and Mohamed Knoh almost took Al Akhdar in the 12th minute.
This pressure resulted in Jacob, Manny Cash and Melek receiving three yellow cards in less than three minutes, with the referee condoning Manny Cash’s deliberate beating of Muhammad Al-Buraik, who deserved a second yellow card, while Al-Maliki received the first green cards due to a protest against the judge.
From the middle of the first half, the level of the Polish national team increased, and our team participated in the possession of the middle of the field, and from the 40th minute – a through pass from Lewandowski to Zeliksni, who firmly puts the ball to the left of Mohammed Al-Owais, so that Poland moved forward. The referee struck a penalty back to the mouse technique.
Salem Al-Dosari stepped forward to take the penalty, but Chesney’s goalkeeper managed to save the ball and Al-Buraik followed him, but Chesney again shone and turned the ball into a corner.
After 10 minutes of added time, the referee announced the end of the first half, and Poland took the lead 1:0. With the start of the second half, the Saudi team made their first changes, bringing in Nawaf Al-Abed instead of Sami Al-Naji and placing Renard Saud Abdul Hamid at left-back and Mohammed Al-Burayk at right-back. In the 55th minute, the Polish goalkeeper intercepted Salem’s ball after a cross by Firas Al-Buraikan, and in the 62nd minute, Milik almost added a second goal, if not for the crossbar.
The Saudi Arabian team dominated but the ball possession was negative and the Saudi Arabian coach made a second substitution bringing in Sultan Al Ghanam in place of Muhammad Al Buraik and with Saud Abdul Hamid Lewandowski’s inattention he played the ball but it bounced off the post.
In the last ten minutes of the match, Lewandowski took advantage of the fatal mistake of Abdullah Al-Maliki and found himself face to face with Muhammad Al-Owais, and then calmly injected the ball, scoring the second Polish goal.
Renard tried to equalize with the entry of Abd al-Rahman al-Aboud and Nasser al-Dosari, the entry of Abd al-Ilah al-Maliki and Saleh al-Shehri, and the entry of Hattan Bahbari as a replacement for Nawaf Al-Abed, while the Brazilian Sampaio counted 7 minutes of injury time, but the Polish team played the match as they wanted, closing their stadium in a good way, after which the referee announced the end of the second half and the match Poland won with two clean goals, bringing their score to four points in two matches , while Saudi Arabia’s balance sheet remained at three points.
The Saudi Arabia national team will face a difficult meeting with Mexico next Wednesday at Lusail Stadium.
