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Al Dhafra\u2019s first football team will look to strengthen their position in the middle of the ADNOC Pro League<\/strong> standings and return to positive results at home when they host Al Ain<\/strong> at 7:45 PM this Thursday<\/strong>, in a Round 12<\/strong> fixture of the competition.<\/p>\n The match, to be played at Hamdan bin Zayed Al Nahyan Stadium<\/strong> in Madinat Zayed, sees Al Dhafra enter the contest with high morale following an exciting 3\u20132 victory over Khorfakkan<\/strong> in the previous round. The team is aiming to build on that win and secure a positive result against the league leaders.<\/p>\n Al Dhafra players are fully aware of the scale of the challenge, facing an Al Ain side that remains unbeaten<\/strong> this season and boasts the strongest attacking line<\/strong> in the ADNOC Pro League, underlining the difficulty of the task ahead.<\/p>\n Head coach \u017deljko Petrovi\u0107<\/strong> and his technical staff have focused this week on restoring the squad\u2019s physical readiness and preparing the appropriate tactical plan for the encounter. The Montenegrin coach has emphasized reliance on the most physically prepared players, particularly in light of several key absences in the squad, highlighting the importance and intensity of the match.<\/p>\n Al Dhafra go into the fixture in eighth place with 15 points<\/strong>, while Al Ain top the table with 27 points<\/strong> as Round 12 gets underway.<\/p>\n Best of luck to Al Dhafra\u2019s players<\/strong> in delivering a strong performance and achieving a positive result.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Al Dhafra\u2019s first football team will look to strengthen their position in the middle of the ADNOC Pro League standings and return to positive results at home when they host Al Ain at 7:45 PM this Thursday, in a Round 12 fixture of the competition. The match, to be played at Hamdan bin Zayed Al […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfsc.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfsc.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfsc.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfsc.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfsc.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dfsc.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2050,"href":"https:\/\/dfsc.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049\/revisions\/2050"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfsc.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfsc.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfsc.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfsc.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}