How to win the Al Hilal CWC over Man City transformations of Saudi football perceptions Football news

The Al -Hilal club, Rayyad and the Saudi Professional League (SPL), is accustomed to obtaining the headlines of international newspapers in recent years, but it was almost exclusively for issues outside the field that involves the money and transportation of the players.

Whether the Brazilian star Neymar Neymar 90 million euros (98 million dollars) is signing in 2023 and the subsequent departure after 17 months after only seven games played, or for their unsuccessful attempts at a time when he is not trying to kick the summer heat this year.

Now, again, the whole world talks about helal – but for a completely different reason.

Once, they talk about football because of Hillal has only gone and defeated Manchester City -A stars team won four of the last five Premier League titles and the European Champions League title two years ago-in round 16 in the newly new FIFA World Cup in the United States.

As far as the elite football clubs go, the Pep Guardiola sits directly near the summit. But on this night in Orlando, now engraved in the folklore Saudi football, it was not matching with Hillel; The amazing meeting, which ends, ends 4-3 after a great 120 minutes of football that has erected the arrival of football in the Middle East to the global theater.

Hillaal’s historic victory makes them the first Asian team to beat a European team in the FIFA Championship.

Hillaal coach, Simon Enzaji, who joined the club only a few weeks after Inter Milan’s direction to the UEFA Champions League final in May, likened the challenge to climb the longest mountain in the world.

“The key to this result is the players, and the heart they put on the field tonight,” said 49 years old.

“We had to do something unusual because we all knew Manchester City, that team. We had to climb Everest Mountain without oxygen and made it.”

Champions across the park

Near the end of the game, Everest’s metaphor was appropriate because Hillal stars were completely exhausting; Hot and wet weather conditions, along with the magnitude of this occasion, conspire to skip almost every ounce of its object.

But they simply refused to surrender or surrender. Despite the waiver of three goals for the city, goalkeeper Yassin Bono was a brick wall between sticks, which made many heroic rescue to maintain cardamal in the competition during the first half.

Striker Marcus Leonardo could hardly walk by the end of the game, but his iconic celebration when he proved to be the goal that won his victory will be remembered by Al Hilal fans for a long time.

The main midfield players Robin Nevis and Sergey Joikovic Savic may wear the wrestler shield, and this was their fight and design, while Saudi players who were unprecedented such as Nasser Al -Dasari and Mutbi Al -Haribi have achieved a name on themselves on the sports stage.

“All players were exceptional in everything, in the possession stage, the non -possession phase,” Inzaghi continued.

“We hardly three weeks we can see the level of application, and they really make the effort. As a coach, he is very satisfactory.

“The players have handed over this performance, they reached the quarter -finals.”

Before the match, a few critics have given more than one chance to win against the Manchester City defender CWC, who achieved a perfect 3 out of 3 in the group stage.

City, a wonderful team known all over the world, had multiple opportunities to win the match but failed to take advantage of the main points late in the competition. Their amazing defeat against Al Hilal is likely to be a post-tournament that tries to reduce the importance of CWC for huge clubs at the end of an arduous campaign, 10 months to 20-25.

But what about Hillal? They were, too, at the end of a long campaign, and in the end they were not successful, as they ranked second in Spl behind Itihad and fell in the semi -finals of the Champions League.

Like their counterparts in their city, when international football includes, many Al Hilal stars played more than 50 games this season and have faced three CWC taxes in an intense heat for the summer of the United States.

But they also entered into this game free of three from the beginning of the eleventh, including two of their most important threats to Alexander Mitrovic and Salem Al -Daisari.

Together, they collect 55 goals and 25 passes in all competitions last season, leaving an incredible void in the attack; While Hassan Al -Tammeti, the central defender who is the favorite partner of Kalidou Koulibaly in the heart of the defense, was also marginalized after his knee injury on the game on the eve of the game.

This meant that Neves, the best midfielder, was deployed in the heart of the defense, forcing another reshaping on the field.

Against Manchester City, the stack that renewed its shares greatly before this tournament, this was a game that did not win properly.

But this is why football is the beautiful game; Make the impossible possible.

The scenes of the celebration were in the dressing rooms, and crossed the cafes and streets of Riyadh in the early hours of Tuesday morning, reminding us of the last moments of the last Saudi football-and they won 2-1 over Argentina in the World Cup in Qatar.

Shock waves in this result will be hesitant about the football world in the same way. After two years of distraction about the money and the potential stellar acquisitions at Al Hilal, this match was the next football party in the club in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.