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Umm Salal will play Al Arabi on Saturday 13^th of Dec’ at the Suheim bin Hamad stadium at 18:30.<br />
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<strong>Al Gharafa head coach Marcos Paquetá:</strong><br />
“After our last game we were lucky to keep our place in the table. We must respond quickly after such a heavy defeat to Al Wakrah. We are playing a very organized team, Umm Salal is a stronger side and we must forget our previous game.”<br />
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“I think this game will be tougher than in the first half of the season, we beat them but it will be a difficult challenge as they have one of the best defenses in the league now. They have only conceded 11 goals this season.”<br />
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“The previous game we had 24 shots on target and scored only one and they had 15 and scored 6, but I believe in my players. Sometime a result like that can spell the end of a coach’s tenure at a club but I still think we are in a good position and I believe in my players. It was a strange game, in the first 15 minutes we were 3 goals down.”