A goal-scoring struggle increases the excitement of Al-Duhail and Al-Hilal summit

The Qatari team, Al-Duhail, will face a new challenge in the AFC Champions League competitions for the 2022-2023 season, when it will face Al-Hilal Saudi Arabia, on Sunday, in the semi-finals and an upcoming summit between the two teams (Six Mecca time / Three GMT).

Al-Duhail showed impressive levels in the first rounds of the current version, after he secured his seat in the round of sixteen, after he topped the fourth group ranking during the competitions that took place last April in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Al Duhail coach, Argentine Hernan Crespo, is counting on the efforts of Edmilson Junior, the competition’s top scorer with 8 goals, Kenyan Michael Olonga, who reached his sixth goal in the competition, Tunisian international Ferjani Sassi and Qatari national team striker Al Moez Ali.

For his part, the Nigerian star Odion Ighalo will be one of the most dangerous points in the ranks of Al-Hilal, and the battalion of coach Ramon Diaz, who scored 3 goals in this version, accompanied by the Saudi international Salem Al-Dosari (two goals), and the Malian Musa Mariga, who scored a single goal.

Al-Duhail, who reached the semi-finals for the first time in its history, played 86 matches since its first participation in the 2012 season, achieving victory in 42 matches, losing 22 matches, 22 matches ended in a draw, and succeeded in scoring 138 goals in all its matches, while conceding a net. 112 goals, and hopes to reach the final as the first Qatari club since 2011, when the Al Sadd team reached the final scene, and was crowned with the title at that time.