I don't think so. Considering the fact that KSA missed half of their team due to injuries, absurd absences and their best player (Majrashi) who got injured against Jordan after 10 minutes of play we cannot complain. The team dominated the second half very clearly tells me another thing as well. Aside from the missed penalty in the first half.
I did not expect a win and wrote it before due to all the injuries, absences and the miss of Majrashi. So I expected Iraq to dominate much more. In reality KSA could easily have equalized with a little bit of luck. By starting to score on penalties for instance.
But as I said this tournament is not a senior tournament and it mattered little but of course victories are better than losing. But the boys can be proud.
Now the aim is to win the 4th Asian Cup trophy and equal Japan's record and then qualify to the World Cup in 2018 for the 5th time. More than any country in the ME and Arab world. Only Japan and South Korea would be better on that front in Asia.
Anyway congrats to Iraq. If there is one team outside of KSA that should have won it and who I could support then it is Iraq.
Nobody talked about any religion, 7abibi. What was mentioned was that the Iraqis would be more determined than our team due to those political reasons that could also be witnessed on Arab forums. And because we never really had a football rivalry with Iraq since we were much better for decades which the titles and results confirm. That's all. I even mentioned "no disrespect". I think that there are a few Shias on our own team so it has nothing to do with this, LOL.
Compare it with Denmark. They always want to perform really well against Germany but for Germany it is just another match. It is a one-sided rivalry in other words.
If it was KSA-Iran that would be another thing or KSA-Israel. But I don't think that we even recognize Israel as a football nation so we are yet to play against them like most Arab countries.
But if we played against Israel I would turn up in a Nazi uniform and acquire a Adolf Hitler mustache and shout "Heil Hitler" each time that they touched the ball.