The Al-Ittihad Herald
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
A defender's afternoon for Fabinho
Defensive actions: 40. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Steven Bergwijn out for 29 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Al-Ittihad will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Nothing got past Mahamadou Doumbia
38 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Al-Ittihad
Moussa Diaby was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Real improvement from Turki Hazazi at Al-Ittihad
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Turki Hazazi is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Juan Pablo Gallego falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
The afternoon belonged to Stephane Keller
7.75, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Al-Ittihad had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Off the pace: Abdulrahman Al-Obud
A mark of 4.18 tells the story without any need for embellishment. He will want the tape of this one quietly lost.
Match17 Oct 2026
Al-Ittihad draw a blank against Al-Shabab
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Al-Shabab defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
In brief
- Market The Houssem Aouar story refuses to die
- Market Mohammed Al-Absi leaves for nothing