The Al Wahda Post
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
Gerónimo Rivera was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 42. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Match16 Dec 2026
The cup run ends for Al Wahda
0‑1 against Al Shabab, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Match19 Dec 2026
Christian Benteke settles it late for Al Wahda
The 89th minute, half the ground already edging towards the exits, and Christian Benteke decided nobody was going anywhere. Al Ahli had no time left to answer.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
Age has not caught Dušan Tadić yet — 7.96
At 38 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.96 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Match19 Dec 2026
Christian Benteke the difference as Al Wahda beat Al Ahli
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Christian Benteke. 1‑0 against Al Ahli, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Market21 Dec 2026
Al Wahda may not be able to give Renné Rivas what he wants
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Renné Rivas wants continental football; whether Al Wahda can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
Ali Hassan: “That is the standard”
“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 1‑0, already talking about the next one.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Mohammed Ali in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Al Wahda this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Dec 2026
A row about effort at Al Wahda
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Lautaro Montenegro was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
In brief
- The dugout No hiding place for Zayed Ahmed
- The dugout No place in the plan for Dušan Tadić
- The dugout Faisal Al Hashmi dropped after a run of poor form