Watkins: My job is to score goals

English Ollie Watkins, Al Hilal player, expressed his happiness at scoring goals and helping his team achieve victory.

The English striker led his team, Al Hilal, to restore its winning streak in the AFC Champions League for the Elite, when he scored a brace against the Emirati club, Al Ahly Dubai, to enable Al Hilal to win the match points.

Watkins said in an interview with the media after the victory over Shabab Al-Ahly of the Emirates and achieving Al-Hilal’s third victory in the AFC Elite Champions League: “I am happy to score goals and help the team achieve the victory, which was important for us tonight, especially since we are performing well in the league.”

The English striker added: “I am a striker and my job is to score goals. I wasted some opportunities in previous matches, but today I succeeded in exploiting them, and I aspire to score in every match and contribute to the team’s victories.”

Khalidou Coulibaly, defender of the Saudi Al Hilal team, expressed his satisfaction with the victory achieved by his team over the UAE’s Shabab Al Ahly, in the fourth round of the AFC Elite Champions League.

Coulibaly said, in an exclusive interview with Asharq Al-Awsat: “It was a difficult match, and we were looking forward to compensation after our loss in the last match, so achieving victory was very important, and thank God we succeeded in that.”

Regarding his preference to play alongside one central defender or within a defense line that includes three players, Coulibaly stressed that the team’s interest comes first, saying: “What is most important to me is Al Hilal’s victory.”

Mohamed Mahzri, a player for Al Hilal, said that his team had to make a strong reaction after losing to the Qatari Al Shamal team in the penultimate round of the AFC Champions League for the Elite, and this is what actually happened against the UAE’s Shabab Al Ahly, which Al Azraq Al Asimi won with a clean double.

Speaking to the media after Al Hilal’s victory, Mahzri added that the team played the match with a desire to make amends.

Regarding his opinion on replacing the player Sabri Dahl, Mahrezi said: The reason may be that the coach was afraid that he would be deficient in the match after the yellow card, and he was interested in completing the match with the full number, indicating that the player Dahl did not fall short in the minutes in which he participated.

Regarding his advanced and different technical performance with Al-Hilal, Mahzri said: Whoever says that may not have followed me when I was playing for the Al-Taawoun team, and he concluded by saying, “May God keep me in good faith.”