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The Asian Football Confederation issued an official decision on its official website today, Wednesday night, considering that the Saudi defending champion Al Hilal has withdrawn from the current edition of the 2020 AFC Champions League, after the Saudi club Al Hilal will not submit the required roster of 13 players in order to compete. His counterpart, Al-Ahly Dubai, of the United Arab Emirates, which was scheduled to take place at 8:00 p.m. today, Wednesday, at the Khalifa International Stadium, within the competitions of the sixth and last day of the phase of AFC Champions League 2020 groups, which recently resumed after a multi-month hiatus from the spread of the Corona virus. Newcomer “Covid 19”.
The AFC said in its statement that “Al Hilal Saudi Club did not submit the required list of 13 players to play the AFC Champions League Group Two match for the West, against the young Al-Ahly Dubai of the United Arab Emirates. United. According to article 4.3 of the AFC tournament regulations “. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he was deemed to be withdrawing from the tournament. “
The statement added: “And all matches played by Al-Hilal Club (which featured a roster of 11 players for the match) were deemed void and not counted, in accordance with Article 6 of the Champions League instructions from the AFC, and consequently, Bakhtakor of Uzbekistan and Al-Ahly Dubai qualified for the round of 16.
The statement continued, “The tournament instructions allowed for the registration of 35 players in each club, but Al Hilal registered 30 players, and among them 27 players traveled with the team to Doha. To replace the goalkeepers who tested positive for the Covid-19 virus.
The AFC statement continued: “He worked with the Qatar Football Association to facilitate the arrival of the substitute goalkeepers, along with other players who were entered on the initial roster and did not travel with the team, as well as other officials, and so on. as soon as possible to Doha “.
The Saudi Crescent formation for the match included only 9 players due to the absence of a large number of players due to their infection with the emerging corona virus “Covid 19” as it came as follows.
Al-Mayouf is at the gatekeeper, a Kurdish prince, Jiang Hyun Soo, Walid Al-Ahmad, Dalallah Al-Olayan, Mansour Al-Bishi, Hattan Bahbari, Carilo, Turki Al-Mutairi, while sitting on the benches of Al- Hilal Al-Mutairi: Abdullah Al-Bishi (goalkeeper), Ahmed Al-Goalkeeper.
The laws of the AFC Champions League require that each team’s roster must have no fewer than 13 players to celebrate the match. However, Al Hilal’s roster included only 11 players, including 3 goalkeepers.
Hilal qualified for the round of 16 after his score reached 11 points, at the top of the second group, and Pakhtakor ranks second in the second group ranking with 8 points, one point ahead of Al’s youth. -Ahly Dubai, while the conflict erupts between the two teams to accompany Hilal to the next round.
