Kungiyar kandu ta Iraq ta fuskanci wasan mai mahimmanci da kungiyar kandu ta Saudi Arabia a yau, ranar 28 ga Disamba, 2024, a gasar Gulf Cup ta 26. Wasan zai gudana a filin wasa na Jaber Al-Ahmad International a Kuwait City.
Iraki da Saudi Arabia suna da maki uku kowannensu, bayan sun ci kungiyar Yemen a wasannin da suka gabata. Amma Saudi Arabia tana da faida wajen tofa din burin, bayan ta doke Yemen da ci 3-2, yayin da Iraki ta ci Yemen da ci 1-0. Nasara ga Iraki ita ce mahimmanci don samun tikitin zuwa wasannin neman gurbin faharai, tare da Bahrain wacce ke shugabancin rukunin B a yanzu. Saudi Arabia zatai ci gaba da nasara ko kuma tafawa.
A wasannin da suka gabata, Iraki ta doke Saudi Arabia da ci 2-0 a gasar Gulf Cup ta 25 a watan Janairu 2023. Iraki ta fuskanci asarar 2-0 a wasanta na baya da Bahrain, wanda Ali Jaafar Madan ya zura kwallaye a kowace rabi.
Saudi Arabia ta samu nasara mai ban mamaki a kan Yemen, bayan ta yi nasara 3-2 bayan ta kasance 2-0 a baya a cikin minti 27 na wasan. Mohamed Kanno ya zura kwallo a minti 30, Musab Al-Juwayr ya zura kwallo daga bugun fanareti kafin minti 60, sannan Abdullah Hamdan ya zura kwallo a minti 93 don kammala nasara.
