{"id":2054,"date":"2026-01-02T02:58:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T22:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dfsc.ae\/?p=2054"},"modified":"2026-02-11T21:27:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T17:27:29","slug":"al-dhafra-travel-to-khorfakkan-seeking-a-return-to-winning-ways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dfsc.ae\/en\/al-dhafra-travel-to-khorfakkan-seeking-a-return-to-winning-ways\/","title":{"rendered":"Al Dhafra Travel to Khorfakkan Seeking a Return to Winning Ways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"167\" data-end=\"304\">Al Dhafra\u2019s first football team will travel to face <strong data-start=\"219\" data-end=\"233\">Khorfakkan<\/strong> on <strong data-start=\"237\" data-end=\"255\">Friday evening<\/strong> as part of <strong data-start=\"267\" data-end=\"303\">Round 11 of the ADNOC Pro League<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"306\" data-end=\"606\">The match will be played at <strong data-start=\"334\" data-end=\"373\">Saqr bin Mohammed Al Qasimi Stadium<\/strong> in Khorfakkan City on the eastern coast, with kick-off scheduled for <strong data-start=\"443\" data-end=\"454\">4:55 PM<\/strong>. Al Dhafra enter the fixture with high ambitions to halt their run of negative results in their last three matches and return to the path of victories.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"608\" data-end=\"891\">Al Dhafra are hoping to overcome the difficult circumstances they have recently faced due to key absences caused by suspensions and injuries, as they seek to restore positive momentum despite the challenge of facing a strong opponent who benefits from home advantage and fan support.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"893\" data-end=\"1249\">Following their most recent match against <strong data-start=\"935\" data-end=\"947\">Bani Yas<\/strong>, the team completed only two training sessions, during which head coach <strong data-start=\"1020\" data-end=\"1039\">\u017deljko Petrovi\u0107<\/strong> and his technical staff focused on correcting defensive errors and improving attacking efficiency, with the aim of delivering a stronger performance and maintaining the team\u2019s position in the league standings.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1251\" data-end=\"1361\">Al Dhafra go into the match in <strong data-start=\"1282\" data-end=\"1313\">eighth place with 12 points<\/strong>, while Khorfakkan sit <strong data-start=\"1336\" data-end=\"1360\">tenth with 11 points<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1363\" data-end=\"1468\"><strong data-start=\"1363\" data-end=\"1402\">Best of luck to Al Dhafra\u2019s players<\/strong> in producing a strong performance and securing a positive result.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Al Dhafra\u2019s first football team will travel to face Khorfakkan on Friday evening as part of Round 11 of the ADNOC Pro League. The match will be played at Saqr bin Mohammed Al Qasimi Stadium in Khorfakkan City on the eastern coast, with kick-off scheduled for 4:55 PM. Al Dhafra enter the fixture with high [&hellip;]<\/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-2054","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\/2054","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=2054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dfsc.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2055,"href":"https:\/\/dfsc.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2054\/revisions\/2055"}],"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=2054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfsc.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfsc.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}