Mohammed Ali

Central Defender - Al Wahda
2 Feb 2027
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Mohammed Ali

21 Edition

The Al Wahda Post

21 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

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.

Match

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.

Match

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 ratings

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.

Match

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.

Market

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 dugout

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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

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The Al Wahda Post

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad

Guga damages knee ligaments — 30 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 30 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Player ratings

Gerónimo Rivera was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 31. 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.

Player ratings

Vintage Christian Benteke — 7.83

At 35 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 7.83, and nobody on the pitch better.

Squad

Words exchanged at Al Wahda

Dušan Tadić and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad

Real improvement from Facundo Insfrán at Al Wahda

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Facundo Insfrán is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Match

Al Wahda get the job done against Al Nasr

A 1‑0 win over Al Nasr, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Brahima Diarra

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

The dugout

The form table has caught Caio Canedo

Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.

The dugout

A satisfied Ali Hassan

“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 1‑0, Ali Hassan could afford to be generous.

In brief