Al Sailiya coach Mirghani Al Zain spoke to the media ahead of their 2022-2023 season QNB Stars League Week 18 match against Al Duhail.

“We worked during the break on the physical and technical sides, position of the players and forming an image of the team in general. Facing Al Duhail, the league leaders, is tough and we will try to appear well and perform differently. We will focus on injecting new blood into the team.

“The current situation of the team is difficult, but we will try with all our efforts to change the image of the team and bring out the best in the players on the field. We will be hopeful until the last moment as long as we are mathematically still on the field and have the opportunity to move away from the last of league standings.

“We feel the enthusiasm in the faces of the players after changing the technical staff and the desire and determination they have to help the team in order to get out of this difficult situation.

“I thank the management of Al Sailiya club for the great confidence in me that I could take over the task of training the team at this important time and I hope that I will live up to everyone’s expectations and achieve positive results,” said Mirghani.

Al Sailiya player Hassan Palang said, “I congratulate Al Duhail on winning the Ooredoo Cup and we know that the match will be very difficult, but we have confidence in the new technical leadership of the team that we will be able to come out of this match with a positive result and achieve victory and collect the three points.

“Facing the leaders gives the match additional importance and we must finish the task successfully, give everything we have and help each other to achieve victory, because we have no alternative but to start improving our current position in the league table.”