Saudi Arabia vs. Iraq: not a friendly game

Saudi Arabia will play Iraq today in a friendly game in preparation for the coming World Cup 2006. Paqueta is hoping to prepare the team to play a team that has skills close to that of Tunisia. For the Saudi, the game is an opportunity to take revenge on the Iraqi team.

Iraq wants to play the game to reassure themselves of superiorty over the Saudi team. In the last two encounters between the two countries, Iraq outperformed and outscored them twice.

Paqueta prepared the team with a week of training in which he picked the team silimar to before with some few changes. The possible lineup is: Yasser Al Mussailim ( Goalkeeper), Kaamil Mousa, Hamad Al Montashiri, Reda Tukar, Muhammad Massad ( Defenders) Saud Khariri, Omar Ghamdi, Nawaf Al Temyat, Muhammad Noor (Midfielders), Muhammad Anbar and Sami Jaber( Strikers)

There are chance that Paqueta will push in during the second half Muhammad Shalhoub, Yasser Al Qahtani and Saad Al Harthi