October 22nd features a match where Dibba Al Fujairah plays host to Bani Yas in a clash of these two evenly matched UAE League teams. The game day is forecasted to be a cloudy but hot day with daytime temperatures of 31 degrees, hopefuly the heat doesn’t affect the players too much. Dibba Al Fujairah sits at 14th place in the tables. In their last match they recorded a 0-2 loss against Al Ittihad Kalba. Daniel Bessa scored the first goal for Al Ittihad Kalba in the 76th minute, then Al Naqbi added another in the 84th minute At the end of 90 a dissapointed Dibba Al Fujairah couldn’t manage to score, and Al Ittihad Kalba took the shutout win. They’re hoping to improve on their recent performance, having lost 5 of their last 10, while bani Yas sits at 12th place in the tables. In their last match they recorded a 1-1 draw against Al Nasr. Ryan Isaac Mendes da Graca scored the first goal for Bani Yas on an own goal in the 36th minute, then Dembo Darboe got the equalizer for Al Nasr in the 86th minute on a feed from Mohamed Omer squeezing out at least the one point for Al Nasr. Bani Yas looks to improve on their recent performance, having earned only 9 points in their last 10 matches.
These two teams have not yet played each other this season, so it will be interesting how the match turns out.
Bani Yas hasn’t been successful in netting any goals lately. Their top scorers in the last 5 matches are Ivkovic and Mendes da Graca, and they each have 1 goal. Ali Al Blooshi and Joey Sleegers are the top scorers for Dibba Al Fujairah in the last 5 matches, but unfortunately they only have one goal.