Saudi Arabia World Cup 2022 Squad Guide: They’ve had the prep, but do they have the goals?

Posted by Xchange Tickets on November 17th, 2022

After some strong training under their French coach, Saudi Arabia skull to a World Cup on their neighbors’ home grass. But Saudi Arabia lack excellence, primarily up front. They may have a history of pulling off theatrical upsets, but they will be very much up against it in Group C…

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The Manager

The Saudi national team’s manager is the French coach Herve-Renard. After ending a 17-year playing vocation in 1999 . Renard has enjoyed a varied coaching career with clubs in Francem, Vietnam and Algeria, as well as Cambridge United. But club football has usually not been his strong point. This is an international specialist.

Renard is the first coach to win the Africa Cup of Nations with 2 different teams (Zambia 2012, Ivory Coast 2015). And his work has left him with millions of admirer across Africa. After annoying his luck again in club football with Sochaux and Lille in Ligue 1 – but failing miserably – he return to international football with Morocco in 2016, leading the chart Lions to a first World Cup in 20 years. After a surprising early exit from AFCON 2019, he submissive. Brusquely after, he became the new Saudi Arabia boss.

Renard had a rough start in the difficult position in Riyadh. Saudi media questioned his ability, but he proved critics wrong. Saudi Arabia qualified for their 6th World Cup with two games in hand. Mostly thanks to the new argumentative 4-1-3-2 shape. Though he recently changed his plans to a more attacking 4-3-3.

Renard also has an interesting false notion: wearing a white button shirt for matches. It started in 2012 with Zambia’s AFCON-winning journey, continued with the Ivory shoreline three years later.

The household name you haven’t heard of yet

The best Saudi player is the team captain, Salem-Al-Dawsari — a inspired, healthy, talented winger-forward who can change a game in a single move. Currently thirty one he grows up at Al-Hilal, Saudi-Arabia’s leading club, and became the prince of the local scene. In 2018, he even spent six months on loan at Villarreal but made just one manifestation before returning to the soothe zone of Al-Hilal, where he shone once again. Beforehand, after years as a left-winger, he started to play more as a forward/second striker and hasn’t looked back since.

Salem is inward at the World Cup after the best season of his career. Fifteen goals and six assists in 31 games made him Al-Hilal’s main goal donor in 2021-22. Moreover, he was the club’s key player in their successful AFC Champions League movement, scoring in the semi-final and final, and being named the competition’s MVP.

In Saudi Arabia, he is known for being a player who rises to the occasion for club and country. His goal against Egypt at the last World Cup is his most unforgettable moment in his 70 appearance in a national team shirt. Stipulation Saudi manager to score a goal in one of their Group C games alongside Argentina, Mexico and Poland . There is a good possibility Salem will be the one who get it. If and when he does, wait for his brand “tornado” celebration. Saudi fans usually use the “storm” emoji on social media after his goals and it has become a viral tendency.

Strengths

Saudi Arabia borders Qatar, so tens of thousands of Saudis are predictable to travel and support their team in the World Cup. With the celebrated singing of the Saudi fans, it will be almost like playing at home.

Saudi Arabia is the only team, as well Qatar, to have been able to hold a proper training camp in preparation for the tournament. The team is finishing a two-month camp with six friendliest, so they’ll arrive ready — at least in terms of fitness and chemistry.

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Beneath-Renard, Saudi Arabia’s defenders better and adopted a smoother association to midfield. Ali Al-Bulaihi, Abdulelah-Al-Amri and Abdullah-Madu form a quality suspicious line with good positioning and the ability to maintain control well.

Their link to the relatively organized midfield with veteran Salman-Al-Faraj, Abdulellah-Al-Malki and Sami-Al-Najei works well. Saudi can make more dangerous attacks and opportunities than before. Overall, they can hold on to the ball well and play it self-assuredly from defence to their opponents’ half.

Weaknesses

Although all of the above, the Green Falcons are still one of the weakest teams at the World Cup, mainly due to their lack of quality in attack. In the past, Saudi Arabia enjoyed having quality goals corers, but the days of national legends such as Majed-Abdullah (72 goals), Sami-Al-Jaber (46) or Yasser-Al-Qahtani (42) is long gone. Even Mohammad Al-Sahlawi (28) is a memory.

These days, Saudi’s leading men up front are Saleh Al-Shehri and Firas Al-Buraikan, who scored seven and three correspondingly during qualification. It might not be sufficient against the defenders of Poland and Argentina. At the same time as Al-Shehri has been treated with a meticulous training plan from the coaching staff to improve his positioning and finishing, it all goes back to Salem, whom everyone will count on to create, lead, threaten and carry out.

Local knowledge

The famous Saudi traveler Abdullah-Al-Salami was the first football fan to reach your destination in Qatar for the World Cup. He walked almost 1600 kilo meter from Jeddah, during the desert, to Doha. It took him 55 days. He had a Saudi flag and a Qatari flag tied to his rucksack all the way through the journey, endorse unity between the two countries that did not hold political relations until not too long ago. Look for his Indian- Jones hat in the stands.

The Saudi media and fans know that their team has been haggard in one of the hardest groups. The Saudi FA launched a digital identity crusade called “Giddam” (قدام, “come on” in Arabic) to support the team in digital platforms, and the country is completely behind the team. At least until the first game.

Mohammed-bin-Salman, the Saudi circlet prince, has a soft mark for significant football events. He was here in Saudi’s opening game in Russia in 2018. This time, he meets the team before they left.

I know that our group is complicated… and no one expects us to win or still to draw. I do not want any of you to play under heaviness that affects your level, he told the players at the meeting.

It strength sound calming, but it could also add some pressure. Due to the sensitive ambassadorial relations with Qatar, it is not known whether MBS will be there, but if FIFA president Gianni Infantino shows up for Saudi Arabia’s match against Argentina, there’s a good chance he will be there too.

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