After the Al Ittihad's draw with Armando Evangelista's DamacSérgio Conceição ruined the work of the refereeing team. «I've trained in many places and I've never seen a performance from a referee like this. If I had been refereeing the game, I could have controlled the situation. the opposing team's coach [n.d.r.: o ganhar português Armando Evangelista] admitted that they were applying a strategy to save time», he pointed out. The Al Ittihad coach is looking for the seventh consecutive victory in official games and the sixth in games counting for the Saudi League, but ended up being held back by a team that is fighting for permanence. «We weren't as aggressive at the beginning as in other games. The second half was spectacular", he pointed out before acknowledging: "The referee was no excuse for what happened to us."