Our first national football team concludes its preparatory camp by meeting the Bolivia national team, at ten o'clock in the evening today (Tuesday) at Prince Abdullah Al-Faisal Stadium in Jeddah. Saudi Al-Akhdar enters this meeting after losing to the Venezuelan national team with two goals to one last Friday, and seeks through tonight’s meeting to correct mistakes and adjust conditions to win, and improve the national team’s position in the FIFA classification. The French coach, Hervé Renard, relies on the usual 4-2-3-1 method, with Saleh Al-Shehri in the front line, behind him the trio Firas Al-Buraikan, Salem Al-Dosari and Abdul-Rahman Gharib, and in the goalkeeper is the goalkeeper Muhammad Al-Owais, and in front of him the quartet Saud Abdul-Hamid, Ahmed Sharahili, Ali Al-Bulayhi and Nasser Al-Dosari. Coach Renard had made several changes in the ranks of Al-Akhdar before this confrontation, as Fawaz Al-Sokour was summoned and the trio Abdul Rahman Al-Aboud, Hassan Timbukti and Riyad Sharahili were excluded due to various injuries.
As for the Bolivia national team, it is not in a better condition than our national team, as it also lost its international friendly match against Uzbekistan with a goal for nothing, last Friday at the King Abdullah Sports City Stadium in Jeddah, and is looking for a long-awaited victory, as it did not win in the last 7 meetings it played. .
Tonight’s meeting is the fourth meeting between them, as they have previously met in 3 meetings. The Bolivian national team won the first historical confrontation between them in 1994 with a goal without a return, and they tied without goals in the only official confrontation that brought them together, and that was in 1999 in the Confederations Cup in Mexico, as well. They also tied in the third meeting with two goals each in 2018.
Saleh Al-Harbi (Jeddah) @okaz_online