Two days of rest for the first team, Khoukhi set to return soon

The Al-Sadd football first team players were given two days off as rest, after training hard for the past few days to prepare for the upcoming AFC Champions League game against Al Wasl.

The team will now resume training at the club’s training facility from 6:15 PM on Wednesday, when the returning international players will rejoin the squad after the end of the commitments with their respective national teams.

In the coming days, head coach Jesualdo Ferreira and his staff will decide on the training programme that will be required to bring the players up to full fitness and preparedness ahead of the game against Al-Wasl on April 2.

Al-Sadd are currently on top of the Group C table, with 9 points from four games, after three wins and a defeat.

On Sunday, the first team trained with the available players, in the absence of 17 members who are away on international duty. The coaching staff worked on physical and technical aspects in order to keep the players in shape.

Meanwhile, Al-Sadd’s Khoukhi Boualem has been gradually nearing a return to full recovery after undergoing rehabilitation and treatment, following an ankle injury that he sustained during the QNB Stars League Round 21 game against Al-Khor.