Al-Ettifaq Blames Referee Performance After Defeat to Al-Orouba; Steven Gerrard Calls for Review of Officiating Standards

Saudi club Al-Ettifaq issued a strong statement after the team’s loss to Al-Orouba in the Saudi League, attacking the referees.

This is after the English coach, Steven Gerrard, the coach of the team, opened the referee for Mohammed Al-Harbi for his team’s game against Al-Orouba, and he believes that this is one of the reasons for his ‘lost, indicating that he was below. level of the game.

At the start, Gerad said: “I will not ask any questions about the game, because I am not happy with the referee who is leading the game about it.”

He said, “The performance of the referee was below the standard of the game, and this was clear to me from the start, when we scored the first beautiful goal of the opponent, but we were able to change and improve the result. However, Al- Orouba was able to win again, but I say again and again that the referee of the game was bad, and I apologize for the mistake.” Answer any questions at the conference.

After the club issued a statement as follows: “It is unfortunate to see the negative impact as a result of incorrect refereeing decisions.

The statement said, “We ask the responsible committees to reconsider the quality of the referees’ performance and work to avoid serious refereeing errors, which will encourage the club’s management to respond to the public requests of foreign referees to used for the rest of the referee’s games. sports season now.”

Al-Ettifaq suffered its third defeat in the Roshan League against Al-Orouba 2-3, in the clash that brought them together at their home stadium in Dammam for the seventh round.