Team announced UAE Eye andQatar Dam The formation of the two teams’ match, scheduled to start at seven o’clock this evening, Monday, at Hazza Bin Zayed Stadium, within the competitions of the first round of the West Zone Group in the AFC Champions League for the elite for the current season 2024-2025.
Eye formation against dam
Khaled Issa, Kwame Kouadio, Fabio Cardoso, Park Youngwoo, Yahya Nader, Mohammed Abbas, Kaku, Bandar Al Ahbabi, Eric Jurgens, Matias Palacios andSofiane Rahimi.
While the dam will face the match with this formation:
Meshaal Barsham, Pedro Correa, Mohamed Camara, Tariq Salman, Paulo Silva, Khoukhi Boualem, Guilherme Torres, Rafael Sebastian, Youcef Atal, Akram Afif and Andres Villa.
AFC Champions League Elite
24 teams will participate in the AFC Champions League Elite Championship for the 2024-2025 season, divided into two groups, East and West, each of which includes 12 teams. Eight teams will qualify from each group and will meet in a knockout system until the final match in May 2025.
Al Ain is playing in the AFC Champions League for the elite this season, after winning the title last season 2023-2024, and for the second time in its history after winning the 2003 edition.
Al Ain, led by Argentine coach Hernan Crespo, aspires to compete in this season’s edition of the AFC Champions League for the elite, to retain last season’s title.
Al Ain FC has strengthened its ranks with 6 deals in the new season, namely Felipe Salomoni, left back for the Paraguayan Gorani team, Matias Segovia, player for Botafogo in Brazil, Mateo Sanabria, left winger for the Argentine Lanus team, Khalid Batti, midfielder for Al Wahda, Sekou Papa Gassama, midfielder for Al Bataeh, Fabio Cardoso, centre back for Porto in Portugal, in addition to the presence of a number of prominent players, most notably the Moroccan international Soufiane Rahimi, Laba Kodjo, the brilliant goalkeeper Khalid Issa, Kaku and others.
On the other hand, the Qatari Al Sadd team is playing in this Asian version in search of the third title in its history, after winning the tournament in the 1989 and 2011 versions.
Al Sadd is led by Spanish coach Felix Sanchez Paz, who took over the team on July 23 for two years after leaving Ecuador following their loss to Argentina on penalties in the quarter-finals of the 2024 Copa America, which the Tango won.
Al Sadd strengthened its ranks with 6 players in the summer transfer market, namely Mohamed Camara, the midfielder of Monaco, the attacking duo of the Portuguese team Arouca, Rafa Mojica and Cristo, Abdessamad Bounacer, the centre-back of the Algerian club Ittihad El-Djazair, Youssef Atal, the right-back of the Turkish team Adana Demirspor, and Abdulrahman Bakri Al-Amin, the centre-back of the Qatari Al Sadd reserve.
The Al Ain vs. Al Sadd match will be broadcast tonight in the AFC Champions League for the elite on beIN Sports AFC HD.