Conceicao:Which team in the league creates the most chances?….

Sérgio Conceição, the Al Ittihad coach, disagrees with the idea that his team is going through a phase where they are creating fewer scoring opportunities.

In the aftermath of the hard-fought 2-1 victory against Pedro Emanuel’s Al Fayha, a good team that plays calmly, Conceicao was emphatic to journalists: “Which team in the league creates the most chances? Al Ittihad.

If we look at the last game, we scored seven goals. That’s historic, and now we’re saying that in the final third we didn’t create as much. No, Al Ittihad is the team that creates the most chances, the statistics show it. We played a very competent game, I don’t remember the opponent having a single chance in the first half, said the Portuguese coach.

Sergio Conceicao feels that, in Saudi Arabian football, there’s a way of looking at a situation and turning it into a whole, meaning today we see a game and think it’s always like that,” but he says he’s happy in Jeddah.

Saudi Arabia is a country that I respect very much and that has welcomed me very well. And I don’t feel my career is stagnating here, I feel this is a very important part of my career. So I am very grateful to the country, and especially to the people at the club who trusted in me, he shared.

Al Ittihad’s return to winning ways in the Saudi League, after their defeat against Al Nassr , came in a difficult context, as their players had not even had the 72 hours of rest following their Asian Champions League match against Al Gharafa , the Portuguese coach also pointed out.

Al Ittihad, the reigning Saudi champions, are in sixth place in the league table with 37 points, and have qualified for the Round of 16 of the AFC Champions League and the semi-finals of the Saudi Arabian Cup.