No Saudi’s Land!

In a decisive game to achieve their 5th consecutive appearance in the World Cup, Saudi Arabia National Team failed to put on a smile on almost 80 thousands of Saudi supporters.

Korea DPR a team with a lot of discipline in defense booked its place in the first World Cup to happen in the African Continent by their goaless draw in Riyadh, a rewarding result for the North Koreans with one point extra than Saudi Arabia helped Korea DPR to automatically qualify to South Africa 2010 being in the 2nd place from Asia’s Group B below group leaders South Korea.

In looking at the Saudi players’ unspeakable performance starting from obvious low spirit probably due to unwary preparation by the administrative staffs those were always above any suspicions for years and sarcastically remain on their seats no matter what!

Having said that, let’s not forget how the team had witnessed disappointments in the World Cup results starting from 98 in France, 02 in Korea-Japan, and 06 in Germany but still rely on the same people despite their confession of failure on public TV after taking the exit in 2006 instead of handing over their resignation they are still manning the Saudi NT and that’s what we call an immunity.

The Saudis of course dominated majority of the 90 minutes and had some reasonable chances to score from but all were denied by Ri Myong-gok the brilliant goalie of DPR Korea, meanwhile Walid Abdullah the brave Saudi Goalie also denied two remarkable shots by the only two chances for the Koreans.

Peseiro the coach who managed to revitalize the team’s spirit and got the team to play an attacking football too was one of the main reasons of losing this showdown in King Fahad Stadium for he failed to select an ideal set of players for this extremely important final match.

The Portuguese Manager also committed two more severe mistakes when he played by two defense midfielders against a team as such playing only to keep their net intact with 8 players in defense the whole time, in addition to that when we didn’t see Tyaseer Al Jassim a midfielder with an attacking capabilities to replace Mohammed Noor who was not able to support forward players and show us some of his playmaking skills, also the Snipper striker Yasser Al-Qahtani was unlucky and spoiled a chance or two by not knowing where to position himself, the only one who managed to pull-off great moments was The Falcon (The new Saudi Hit-man) forward Naif Hazazi.

Peseiro confessed during the post match press conference that he is the one to be blamed and that the Saudi team didn’t lose with him till now, promising to qualify to the World Cup through Bahrain and New Zealand.