{"id":602731,"date":"2026-09-01T15:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T15:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/602731\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T15:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T15:54:09","slug":"watkins-situation-inzaghi-leaves-out-three-players-from-the-al-ahly-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/602731\/","title":{"rendered":"Watkins&#8217; situation? Inzaghi leaves out three players from the Al-Ahly clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Simone Inzaghi has left three players out of his Al-Hilal squad for today&#8217;s clash with Al-Ahli, staged at the &#8220;Kingdom Arena&#8221; in Riyadh in the third round of the Saudi Roshn League.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/arriyadiyah.com\/899226\/%D8%A5%D9%86%D8%B2%D8%A7%D8%AC%D9%8A-%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A8%D8%B9%D8%AF-3-%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AC%D8%AA%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B9-%D9%8A%D8%AD%D8%AF%D9%91%D8%AF-%D9%85%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%83%D8%A9-%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%B2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Saudi newspaper &#8220;Arriyadiyah&#8221;<\/a>, the Italian has axed Turkey&#8217;s Yusuf Akcicek, France&#8217;s Simon Bouabre and midfielder Abdullah Al-Anazi.<\/p>\n<p>Each absence carries its own reason. Akcicek misses out with a slight bruise to the knee, Bouabre is short of full fitness, and Al-Anazi has simply dropped out of the technical staff&#8217;s plans for the game.<\/p>\n<p>English striker Wally Watkins does make the squad. His involvement will hinge on the technical meeting Inzaghi holds before the team leaves for the ground.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Hilal sit second in the Roshn League on 9 points from 3 matches, three behind leaders Al-Nassr, though &#8220;the Boss&#8221; have a game in hand.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Ahli, meanwhile, lie seventh with 6 points from 3 games. A positive result against Al-Hilal would lift them up the table.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Simone Inzaghi has left three players out of his Al-Hilal squad for today&#8217;s clash with Al-Ahli, staged at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":602732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[179995,270946,120878,85,46,272455,184982,24484,105],"class_list":["post-602731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-al-ahli","tag-al-hilal-vs-al-ahli","tag-al-hilal","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-o-watkins","tag-s-inzaghi","tag-saudi-pro-league","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602731","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=602731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}