The Al Dhafra Chronicle
Match7 Nov 2026
Al Dhafra cannot stop winning
3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Squad9 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Al Dhafra
Jobson and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Ibrahim Bayesh runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match7 Nov 2026
Sory Kaba sends Al Dhafra past Al Ahli
It finished 2‑0, and it was Sory Kaba’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Al Dhafra.
Market9 Nov 2026
Al Dhafra promote Walid Saeed from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Walid Saeed has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market9 Nov 2026
Al Dhafra promote Khalid Nader from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Khalid Nader has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Sory Kaba was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.27. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
One of those days for Jobson
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.19, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad9 Nov 2026
100 appearances for Ezeckiel Noumonvi
100 games in these colours. Service of that kind gets rarer every season, and the crowd knows it.
In brief
- The dugout A satisfied Faisal Mabkhout
- The dugout Arielson gets it from the manager
- Squad Yousef Al-Mansoοri falls out with a teammate over standards