Al Duhail Head Coach Hernán Crespo expressed his sorrow for the loss that the team suffered this evening versus Al Gharafa, and the coach said in a statement to the club’s official website after the end of the match: Today we could not achieve victory during a match that we succeeded in creating a number of opportunities to score and worked on building offensive attempts as well as ball possession throughout the game but we had to take advantage of these opportunities and score goals, as we did in previous matches, but today we did not succeed in scoring.

Crespo said: We are ready for the remaining matches of the league with courage and strength, and we will enter them as if they were four finals, and we will show the strong character of the team in these matches.