One of the two Lebanese footballers, Al Ansar and Al Najma, will have the opportunity to save the season when they meet on Saturday at the President Fouad Shehab Stadium in Jounieh in the local cup final.

Al Ahed reclaimed the league title from Al Ansar about a month ago and thus the Green Leader will enter the final meeting of the longest season in history with hopes of retaining the second most important title and boosting its record as he was crowned last year for the 15th time in his history. As for his main rivals, Al-Nahiri is looking for his first official title since 2016, when he won the same competition for the sixth time.

The two teams did not present a perfect season as Al-Ansar suffered a technical crisis at the start of the season which prevented him from winning the league title, which he later lost to the Yellow Genie, and had a weak showing before the start of the season. The administration intervened and fired the German coach Robert Jaspert and assigned the task to the Jordanian coach Abdullah Abu Zam, who contributed to the improvement of the team’s results in the second round of the championship (two six sixths), coming out on the second place of the team.

Al-Zaim failed to make it past the AFC Cup group stage, falling behind the first group with one point behind Al-Seeb of Oman, Al-Kuwait Al-Kuwait and Syria’s Jable.

But the team has the ingredients to win thanks to the presence of a large group of outstanding players led by Lebanon captain Hassan Maatuk, Nader Matar and a group of good strikers such as Ahmed Hegazy, Karim Darwish, Khaled Mohsen, Majed Othman and Fayez Shamsin.

Before entering the final match, Al-Ansar beat Al-Shabab Al-Ghazia of the second degree with a score of 3: 0, then Al-Salam beat Zgharta (also of the second degree) with a clean six, and beat Al Ghazi. Bourges on penalties 3-2 after they drew at normal time.

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On the other hand, Al-Najma has experienced many hardships this season as he withdrew from a scheduled league ninth leg match against Al-Ahed in protest of the arbitration. finished the season in seventh place after qualifying for the title.

And the Al-Khoebi team suffered from technical instability, after being led by local coach Youssef El-Gohari before the start of last season, who later resigned, so the Syrian Maher Al-Bahri took over the task, and then was fired to return “Maestro” Moussa Hadjija, who later retired due to his disqualification by the Federation. Within two years of being ruled out of the match, Al-Najma lost to Al-Safa 1-2 as part of the fourth round of a six- national tournament dedicated to relegation clubs.

Tunisian coach Tariq Jarraya coached the team in the final stages of the tournament but failed to take the team to the AFC Cup group stage as it finished third in Group C behind Bahrain’s East Riffa and Syria’s Tishreen.

Jaraiya will rely on a group of locals, most notably international defenders Maher Sabra, Qasem Al Zein and strikers Edmond Shehade and Ali Aladdin, while Al Nahiri will miss top scorer Mahmoud Sablini, who will be moved to archrival .