Syria lacks the services of its influential players against Lebanon

The Syrian national football team, which has completely lost its hopes of reaching the 2022 World Cup, will miss a large number of influential players in its match with its Lebanese host next Thursday at Sidon City Stadium, within the penultimate ninth round of the first Asian group competitions from the third qualifying round to the World Cup Qatar. Ghassan Maatouk, the coach of the Syrian national team, indicated in a press conference yesterday, Monday, that nine players were absent from the list he chose for the Lebanon match, including six due to injury: Omar Kharbin (Al Wehda of the United Arab Emirates), Hossam Ayesh (Gotberg of Sweden), Mahmoud Al Bahr (Riffa of Bahrain) and Ward Al Salamah. (Manama, Bahrain), Abdul Rahman Weiss (Ofi Creek, the Greek) and Fahd Al Yousef (Iraqi Police). Ayaz Osman (Lewinkos, the Greek) is also absent due to infection with the Corona virus. Maatouk added that Omar Al-Soma, the Saudi striker, Al-Ahly, apologized for joining the Syrian national team in the current period, due to his lack of psychological preparation, and he is also absent from the Lebanon match, Mahmoud Al-Mawas, due to the accumulation of warnings.

Syria concludes the decisive role once morest Iraq in Dubai on the 29th of this month.

The most prominent names absent from the Syrian national team are Omar Kharbin and Omar Al-Soma

The Syrian team occupies the sixth and last place in the group with two points, compared to 22 points for the leader Iran, which decided its qualification for the finals accompanied by the second South Korea (20), while the teams of the Emirates (9), Lebanon (6) and Iraq (5) are still competing for the third qualifying place. To play a play-off with the third of Group B, with the winner playing an international play-off with a South American team.
Maatouk settled on a list of 26 players for the matches in Lebanon and Iraq, namely: Ibrahim Alama (Jableh), Khaled Hajji Othman, Muhammad Rihaniya (Ahly Aleppo), Hussein Jweed, Mustafa Junaid (Hittin), Ahmed Madania (Tishreen), Hussein Rahal (Al Karama), Mahmoud Mawas (Iraqi Police) and Abdullah Al-Shami, Mardik Mardakian (Fahaheel, Kuwait), Alaa Al-Dali (Kuwaiti Youth), Amr Midani (Al-Nasr Al-Kuwaiti), Oliver Caskaw (Helsink, Denmark), Saad Ahmed, Yassin Samiya (Erbil, Iraq), Yousef Mohammed (Al-Ahly of Bahrain), Moayed Khouli (Al-Nasr Oman) and Khaled Kardaghli (Central Oil). Al-Iraqi), Kamel Hamisheh (Iraqi Karkh), Amr Janiyat, Muhammad Hallaq (Manama, Bahrain), Muayyad Ajjan, Muhammad Anz (Riffa, Bahrain), Thaer Karuma (Iraqi Basra Oil), Muhammad Marmour (Masaimeer Qatari) and Mulham Babouli (Muaizir, Qatar).