The Al Ahli Post
Squad16 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Al Ahli
Rashid Nader 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.
Match14 Nov 2026
Al Ahli get the job done against Baniyas
A 2‑1 win over Baniyas, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
The terraces16 Nov 2026
Al Ahli supporters have found a favourite in Mayed Saeed
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Mayed Saeed has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Benjamín Ubierna 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 ratings16 Nov 2026
One of those days for Mayed Saeed
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.14, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Hamad Al Naqbi ran the middle of the pitch — 7.67
He won it back and then made something of it, which is two jobs and the reason the scoreline looks the way it does. 9 combined actions and a mark of 7.67, and not one of them will make a highlights package.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Mahmoud Obaid dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Ahmed Omar gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Isaac Success runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 13. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
In brief
- Market The Faisal Omar story refuses to die
- Player ratings Júnior Correia spends the afternoon fouling