In my opinion Saudi Arabia should be able to win the first game in this group.

Saudi Arabia is #56 in FIFA ranking. They already showed their potential one year ago at the World Cup when they won against Argentina (world champion). They have top class manager Roberto Mancini (in past worked for Manchester City or Italy). He used a 3-4-3 tactic and looks like everything started to click together as they won two matches in World Cup qualies (Pakistan and Jordan) and they also won against Lebanon before this tournament. All matches won ‘to nil’. Saudi Arabia showed good stability and consistency at the back, but also they have very dangerous players with good quality in attack like Abdulhamid or Al-Shehri (4 goals in last 3 matches). I believe they have all the required tools to start this tournament well.

Almost all Oman players are from their domestic league which is very poor. I saw their match against Kyrgyzstan in World Cup qualies (they lost 0:1) and had problems with creativity. Their top scorer in the national team has only 8 goals on account. I don’t see easy goals today against rock-solid Saudi Arabia. 33% of the squad is over 30 years old and I really don’t see big quality or potential. They have good coach, but nothing more than that. Oman is much worse in comparison to Saudi Arabia.

Saudi Arabia won 3 of the last 4 matches against Oman and they should be able to continue their good streak today.

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在我看来，沙特阿拉伯应该能够赢得小组第一场比赛。

沙特阿拉伯在国际足联排名第56位。他们在一年前的世界杯上已经展示了他们的潜力，当时他们战胜了阿根廷(世界冠军)。他们拥有顶级教练罗伯托•曼奇尼(Roberto Mancini)(曾效力于曼城或意大利)。他使用了3-4-3战术，看起来一切都开始协调起来，因为他们在世界杯预选赛中赢得了两场比赛(巴基斯坦和约旦)，并且在本届世界杯之前还赢了黎巴嫩。所有匹配都不会“为零”。沙特阿拉伯在后防线上表现出了良好的稳定性和稳定性，但他们也有像阿卜杜勒哈米德和阿尔谢赫里这样的攻击力很强的危险球员(最近3场比赛打进4球)。我相信他们有所有必要的工具来开始这个锦标赛。

几乎所有的阿曼球员都来自国内联赛，这是非常糟糕的。我看了他们在世界杯预选赛中与吉尔吉斯斯坦的比赛(他们以0:1输了)，他们在创造力方面存在问题。他们国家队的头号射手只进了8个球。在对阵坚如磐石的沙特阿拉伯的比赛中，我没有看到轻松的进球，33%的球员都超过了30岁，我真的没有看到很大的实力和潜力。他们有很好的教练，但仅此而已。与沙特阿拉伯相比，阿曼要糟糕得多。

沙特阿拉伯在最近4场对阿曼的比赛中赢了3场，他们今天应该可以继续他们的好势头。

01月17日沙特 VS 阿曼比赛分析直播