{"id":1906,"date":"2023-08-18T21:09:13","date_gmt":"2023-08-18T17:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ajmantimes.com\/?p=1906"},"modified":"2023-08-18T21:09:14","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T17:09:14","slug":"coach-jaissle-praises-players-fighting-spirit-as-al-ahli-top-roshn-saudi-league-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ajmantimes.com\/coach-jaissle-praises-players-fighting-spirit-as-al-ahli-top-roshn-saudi-league-table\/","title":{"rendered":"Coach Jaissle praises players\u2019 fighting spirit as Al-Ahli top Roshn Saudi League table"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A 3-1 win over Al-Khaleej in Dammam means the Jeddah club now have 6 points from 2 matches<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Al-Ahli coach Matthias Jaissle has praised his team\u2019s fighting spirit after they secured an important 3-1 win over Al-Khaleej in difficult weather conditions on Thursday night at Prince Faisal bin Fahd Stadium in Dammam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The victory took the newly-promoted Jeddah club to the top of the Roshn Saudi League table.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Roger Ibanez gave Al-Ahli a ninth-minute lead before Algerian star Riyad Mahrez doubled the lead in first-half stoppage time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The home team reduced the deficit in the 58th minute through Mansour Ibrahim Hamzi, but Al-Ahli held out and put the game to bed in the 101st minute through Sumayhan Al-Nabit\u2019s goal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt was a crazy match that lasted more than 90 minutes,\u201d Jaissle said in his press conference after the match. \u201cAnd the players fought hard to claim the win and points, and continue our run of victories.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The German coach also explained why he ran onto the pitch after the third goal: \u201cIt was an emotional moment, so I went out to celebrate with the players. The match was difficult and I am an emotional person.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe absence of Firmino was difficult, but we have a suitable alternative, which is (Fahd) Al-Rashidi, and he has great potential.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Al-Ahli coach Matthias Jaissle has praised his team\u2019s fighting spirit after they secured an important 3-1 win over Al-Khaleej in difficult weather conditions on Thursday night at Prince Faisal bin Fahd Stadium in Dammam. The victory took the newly-promoted Jeddah club to the top of the Roshn Saudi League table. Roger Ibanez gave Al-Ahli a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajmantimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajmantimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajmantimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajmantimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajmantimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ajmantimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1908,"href":"https:\/\/ajmantimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906\/revisions\/1908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajmantimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajmantimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajmantimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}