Facing a team Al Ain UAE His Japanese counterpart, Yokohama, at seven in the evening today, Saturday, at Hazza Bin Zayed Stadium, in the second leg of the AFC Champions League final for the current season 2023-2024.
Al Ain, UAE and Yokohama
The first leg of the AFC Champions League final ended with Al Ain, UAE, losing to… Japanese Yokohama 1-2 last Saturday at Nissan Stadium.
And it needs Al Ain UAE Winning 2-0 in order to win the AFC Champions League title for the current season 2023-2024.
We present to you the expected formation of the UAE team Al Ain against Japan’s Yokohama as follows:
The expected formation of Al Ain UAE
Goalkeeper: Khaled Issa
Defense: Bandar Al-Ahbabi, Khaled Al-Hashimi, Kouame, Eric
Midfield: Yahya Nader, Park Young, Muhammad Abbas
Attack: Kaku, Laba Kodjo, Sofiane Rahimi
Expected Yokohama formation
Goalkeeper: William Pope
Defense: Ken Matsubara, Katsuya Nagato, Shinnosuke Hatanaka, Carlos Giusti
Midfielders: Takuya Kida, Nam Tae Hee, Kota Watanabe, Reiko Yamane, Keigo Sakakibara
Attack: Ban Matthews
Al Ain Emirates
Al Ain, from the Emirates, participated 17 times in the tournament and gave the UAE its only title, in addition to qualifying for the 2005 and 2016 finals, but it failed to win the title again.
Moroccan Sufyan Rahimi, the Al Ain star, tops the list of scorers in the AFC Champions League, after the end of the semi-finals, with 11 goals.
Al Ain qualified for the AFC Champions League final with a big surprise, as it beat Al Hilal Saudi Arabia in the semi-finals, and before that it beat Al Nassr, while the Yokohama team advanced to the final after defeating the Korean club Ulsan on penalties.