Administrative stimulation and Grohe’s return revive Cosmin’s battalion

While the management of Al-Ittihad Club renewed its confidence in its players to return to the path of victories during the remaining three rounds of the Saudi Professional League, to win the big title, and to secure an exceptional reward for the players in the event that they win today against Al-Ta’i. Today’s confrontation with Al-Taie to decide the league title, which has been absent from the club’s coffers for 12 years.
Al-Ittihad was absent from the victories for more than two months, as the team’s last victory against Al-Hazm returns with a 3-0 victory for the 25th round of the league, before it tied Al-Fateh 4-4 in the 26th round and lost from Al-Fayhaa with a clean goal in the King’s Cup semi-final, and finally the loss from Al-Hilal 3 – 1 in the last round of the league.
Romanian coach Cosmin Contra sighed with relief by the return of goalkeeper Marcelo Grohe to participate in group training after overcoming the injury he sustained in the last Clasico against Al Hilal, and is ready to participate in the match.
This came at a time when Muhannad Al-Shanqiti is ready to return to the team’s main list after the good technical readiness he showed in the team’s previous training, after he was found in the reserve list against Al Hilal last, before coach Contra hired the player’s services in the last part of the match.
The Al-Ittihad team’s mission landed yesterday in Hail, in preparation for today’s confrontation with Al-Ta’i at Prince Abdulaziz bin Musaed bin Jalawi Stadium, after the team concluded its preparations at its Jeddah stadium before the players went to King Abdulaziz Airport in Jeddah to leave for Hail on a private plane, while hovering There are doubts about the full technical readiness of the Moroccan duo Abdel Razzaq Hamdallah and the Brazilian Igor Cornado, after they suffered in the past few days from a severe flu that made them absent from the team’s penultimate training for the match.
During yesterday’s training session, Roman Cosmni was keen to put the final touches to the tactical methodology after examining the readiness of his technical options for the match, through which he is looking to get the three points of the match, after working the past few days to correct the mistakes made by his players against Al Hilal, along with Directing players to a number of strengths and weaknesses of the host team Al-Taei.
Al-Ittihad is under great pressure due to the simple point difference with the owner of its closest rival, Al-Hilal, for the league title, after the difference between them was reduced to 3 points, at a time when the Al-Ittihad team lost today, compared to Al-Hilal’s victory over Abha, which kidnapped the Blue team for the lead before the sports competitions stopped.
Al-Ittihad is an open book for the Chilean Sierra coach Al-Taie, who previously supervised the yellow team in previous periods, and has great knowledge of the team’s players, at a time when the Al-Taie administration sought to purchase all tickets allocated to the fans of their club to distribute them free of charge to the fans, at a time when the allocated percentage witnessed Federal fans have 25 per cent turnout from the yellow team’s supporters to buy tickets.