The Al Wahda Post
Match5 Sep 2026
A 2-goal lead gone for Al Wahda
It is a specific kind of quiet, a ground watching a winning position dissolve. Dibba kept coming because nothing stopped them, and Al Wahda will be asked about the last half hour all week.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Dušan Tadić scores twice — 8.27
Two goals and a mark of 8.27 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Market7 Sep 2026
Mohammed Ali asks to leave Al Wahda
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Real improvement from Yaser Alo Ali at Al Wahda
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Yaser Alo Ali is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Graduation day at Al Wahda
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Saša Ivković 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.
The terraces7 Sep 2026
Al Wahda supporters have found a favourite in Brahima Diarra
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Brahima Diarra 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.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Gerónimo Rivera runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market7 Sep 2026
One of our own: Saeed Hassan joins the Al Wahda first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Saeed Hassan is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market Al Wahda promote Ahmed Nader from within
- Market Al Wahda promote Nasser Abdulrahman from within
- Player ratings Brahima Diarra was on a different afternoon to everybody else