Emirates News Agency – Shabab Al-Ahly leads for first time, 17-point lights up center in ADNOC Professional League

ABU DHABI, 13th November 2019 (WAM) — Shabab Al-Ahly took charge of ADNOC Professional Football League (direct confrontation with Al-Wehda) for the first time this season, defeating Al-Nasr 3-0.
The curtain fell on the tenth day of the competition after Shabab Al-Ahly took his score to 22 points, benefiting from Sharjah’s 2-2 draw with Al Ain and his superiority over Al-Wehda with equal balance in clashes directly to each other, with Shabab Al-Ahly beating Al-Wahda 2-1 in mid-September.
The round saw a lot of numbers and stats: Al-Wehda, the runners-up, maintained their position after defeating Al-Jazira 1-0, and Al-Wasl moved up to third place after defeating Bani Yas 3-1.
And with leaders Shabab Al-Ahly and Al-Wehda on 22 points ahead of Al-Wasl (21 points) and Sharjah (20 points), 4 other teams with the same number of points equal 17 points in the middle of the table , namely Al-Ain Fifth, Al-Jazira, Ajman and Ittihad Kalba, respectively.
During the tour, only one of the new managers in his first job with a team managed to achieve a positive result; While Al-Bataeh returned to victories under its new Moroccan coach Saeed Shakhit, who was appointed by the administration to replace Brazilian Caio Zanardi, while Al-Nasr’s new Croatian coach Goran Tomic lost to Shabab Al- Ahly.
The group saw 7 matches which ended in a win, with the exception of one match which ended in a draw between Sharjah and Al Ain. These matches also featured 21 goals, while 4 teams kept their nets clean, which are Shabab Al-Ahly, Al-Wahda, Ajman and Al-Bataeh.
The match between Khorfakkan and Al-Bataeh was the highest scoring match, with 7 goals, as Khorfakkan won 4–3.
The scene in the scoring run hasn’t changed much; Al Ain player Lapa Kodjo kept the lead with 10 goals, followed by Al Jazira player Ali Mabkhout with 9 goals, Al Wasl player Fabio Lima with the same score, then Al Wahda player Joao Pedro, with 8 goals.
The most famous stadium judges were 27 yellow cards and one red card was for Al Wasl player Muhammad Jaber, and Al Nasr and Khor Fakkan players did not receive any cards.