French coach Hervé Renard, coach of our national team, is working to find a suitable replacement to make up for the absence against Mexico tomorrow, Wednesday, in the match of the third and final round of the group stage of the Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup, and our team will go out for tomorrow’s match with three points against Mexico’s point, and each team clings to their chances of qualifying to their last breath.
The real problem facing Renard is not finding an alternative, but the alternative itself. The players available to compare between them and choose any of them have not participated in a long time, and even in the preparation matches, he gave them a few minutes.
Despite an absence that starts from the defensive line with the absence of Yasser Al-Shahrani and then Muhammad Al-Buraik, who takes two weeks to recover from a muscle injury, all the way to midfield, with the absence of Salman Al-Faraj and then Abdul-Ila Al -Maliki due to the accumulation of cards, Renard will struggle to find suitable solutions in midfield, and in defense, Saud Abdul Hamid’s ability to excel in more than one position saves him from having to think about defense. Problems.
Saud is good and efficient whether as a right back or left back and he did it against Poland when he started the match from the right flank and then switched to the left at the start of the second half and Saud is also good at playing as a centre-back which is what happened against Argentina when Renard resorted to closing in depth. The defense late in the match to secure the lead with the result pushed Sultan Al-Ghanam to right-back, with Sauda joining in depth next to Al-Bulaihi and Hassan Timbukti.
Renard’s options to make up for the lack of midfield are limited to Nasser Al-Dosari, Abdullah Atif and Ali Al-Hassan and the three have featured little in the Saudi Arabian national team and they only appeared minutes later in limited matches. , while he is left with another option, relying on Nawaf Al-Abed or Sami Al-Naji, although they have not delivered what was expected of them in the previous two matches, which makes him seriously consider abandoning them.
