The second-lowest ranked team in the field, Saudi Arabia will need to find the goals to be able to hang with the likes of Lionel Messi and Robert Lewandowski.
Saudi Arabia continued their preparation for the 2022 World Cup with a 0-0 draw against Honduras in Abu Dhabi on Sunday. Herve Renard’s team continue to be stubborn at the back but lacking in attack. Here are five things we learned from their latest outing. 1. Cutting edge still absent The result takes Saudi Arabia’s unbeaten run to five games after two draws against fellow
Lionel Messi’s latest, and likely last, assault on the World Cup has garnered a Middle Eastern flavor. If the game’s greatest talent is to belatedly lift the sport’s grandest trophy this winter, he’ll do it in Qatar while employed by Qatar Sports Investments’ Paris Saint-Germain. The 35-year-old will take to the pitch in Doha on Nov. 22 for Argentina’s Group C clash with
Saudi Arabia continued their preparations for the World Cup with a 1-0 defeat at the hands of Venezuela on Thursday, the second of two matches at their training camp in Spain. Here are five things that we learned. 1. Performance improved but more aggression needed Coach Herve Renard, back on the sidelines after suffering from illness, knew that Sunday’s 1-0 loss to Colombia
Al-Fayha defeated Al-Hilal 3-1 in a penalty shootout on Thursday to claim the King’s Cup, the first major trophy in the club’s history. After two hours of football ended 1-1 at the King Abdullah Sports City Stadium in Jeddah, the men from Al-Majma’ah were the ones celebrating after Panagiotis Tachtsidis fired home the decisive spot-kick. It was a stunning ending to the game,