Al-Hilal will play their second match in the elite jawwy league this season, but they will face a largely unknown side when they host Al-Khaleej at their home ground in the Saudi capital, Riyadh.<\/p>\n
Al-Hilal opened their Saudi Under-21 League campaign with a dramatic win over newly promoted Al-Faisaly. Trailing to a goal in the second minute, they turned the game around to win 2-1 through a brace from Turki Al-Ghamil, a result that lifted them to seventh on three points.<\/p>\n
Their lack of familiarity with Al-Faisaly, who were playing their first match in the elite jawwy league, caused “The Leader” real problems. The same issue looms in the second round against Al-Khaleej, even though their opponents are into their second season in the competition.<\/p>\n
Al-Khaleej, unlike Al-Hilal, have yet to kick off their Saudi Under-21 League campaign. Their opening match against Al-Akhdoud has been pushed back to 18 December.<\/p>\n
Adding to Al-Hilal’s concern is a bogey record. They failed to beat Al-Khaleej in their only meeting in the elite jawwy league last season, a goalless draw in the penultimate round of the league stage.<\/p>\n
That stalemate went a long way to costing the capital club top spot in the league stage. They slipped to second, a single point behind Al-Ettifaq, and they are desperate to avoid a repeat so early in the new campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Al-Hilal will play their second match in the elite jawwy league this season, but they will face a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":598338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[270552,270554,270553,270546,270548,270551,270547,270550,270549,270555,85,46,105],"class_list":["post-598337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-al-ahli-u21","tag-al-ettifaq-u21","tag-al-fateh-u21","tag-al-hilal-u21","tag-al-ittihad-u21","tag-al-jabalin-u21","tag-al-kholood-u21","tag-al-nassr-u21","tag-al-tadamon-u21","tag-damac-u21","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}