The youth team (the third in the league) is in an important and difficult meeting, when it faces its host, Al-Khaleej (14th place), at exactly ten o'clock in the evening today (Tuesday) at Prince Muhammad bin Fahd Stadium in Dammam, at the end of the 23rd round matches of the Roshen Saudi Professional League.
Al-Shabab enters this meeting after its strong and exciting victory over its neighbor Al-Hilal in the Riyadh derby, with three goals for free. Al-Layouth aspires, through tonight's meeting, to continue moving towards the top of the league, as the victory will reduce the difference between him and the runner-up, Al-Nasr, to only three points, and they will face each other later in the Riyadh Derby in the twenty-eighth round, and it will also reduce the difference between him and the leaders, Al-Ittihad, to 6 points, and they will meet in the next round. Al-Shabab ranks third with 47 points, gained from 14 victories, 5 draws, and 3 losses. It has 46 goals and 20 goals.
As for the Gulf team, its ambitions differ from its guest in tonight’s meeting, as Al-Dana sons seek to collect meeting points and stay in the professional league for the second season in a row, as the Gulf occupies the fourteenth place and is equal to Al-Adalah in points (15th place) and is only 5 points ahead of Al-Batin (The sixteenth and last place), as the Gulf ranks fourteenth with 17 points, gained from 5 wins, two draws, and 15 losses, and it has 15 goals, and it has 35 goals.
Saleh Al-Harbi (Jeddah) @okaz_sport