Playing Before 70K Spectators.. The Boss’ Looks Forward to Writing New Lines in the History of Playing Against the Iranian Teams
The Al Ain Club will be a heavy guest on the home team when both teams play their round 2 match of ACL 2019 scheduled to be held at the Azadi Stadium on Tuesday 12th March 2019 at 19:30 (Abu Dhabi local time).
The Boss looks forward to writing new lines in the history its strong confrontations at the expense of the Iranian clubs, given that Al Ain FC proved their superiority over their Iranian counterparts in all their confrontations. However, there is a special challenge between Al Ain and Esteghlal Tehran as the latter is the only Iranian team that surpasses Al Ain in the head-to-head statistics with only one win. Yet, Al Ain is still on top by their historical victory over Esteghlal by 6 goals that still painful in the minds of the Iranian fans.
Al Ain who are placed in the third spot of the iron group seeks to compensate their loss in round 1 match to Saudi Arabia’s Al Hilal at the expense of the Iranian home team. the team will try their best to win Esteghlal FC at home and among their fans in their quest to snatch one of the two qualifying cards to the last 16-teams of the AFC Champions League 2019.
Esteghlal Tehran is experiencing the same situation as they lost their round 1 match against Al Duhail by 3-0. Therefore, they have only one option in this coming match, i.e. to win Al Ain to improve their spot on the standing table of Group C.
Calls for Revenge
The Iranian sport newspapers published on Sunday 10th March 2019 were keen to remind the players and fans of Esteghlal Tehran with the team’s heavy loss to Al Ain by 6-1 in the last 16-team stage of ACL 2017 held at Hazza Bin Zayed Stadium. The Iranian sport analysts, observers and the team’s former players provided detailed observations and analysis with the aim in mind to motivate the team players to take revenge under the title of “revenge”. They called for the fans to be behind the team in the standings to boost the team’s spirits and motivate them in their coming clash Asian confrontation against Al Ain FC.
Grand Sale on Tickets
The management of the Esteghlal Tehran Club announced a grand sale on the prices of Al Ain and Esteghlal tickets of round 1 match scheduled to be held at Azadi Stadium. The prices of the first-class tickets were reduced from 35,000 toman, equivalent to 10 dirhams, to be 20,000 toman. Also, second class tickets were reduced from 20,000 to 15,000 toman and third-class tickets from 10,000 to be 5,000 toman, equivalent to about “3 dirhams”.
