French coach Laurent Blanc spoke about the valuable victory over Al -Shabab at the summit of the 16th round of the Saudi Roshen League, on Wednesday evening.

Where Al-Ittihad defeated its youth counterpart 2-1 in the match that brought them together at the King Abdullah Sports City Stadium in Jeddah.

Blanc said in his remarks after the end of the match: "The retreat after progress is a bad habit" laughing ". We scored two goals and there is a canceled goal and we made a quick mistake after scoring the second goal. We did not play a big confrontation because we faced a strong team.

He added: "Al -Ittihad players deserved to win, the situation was difficult due to physical exhaustion. We played 120 minutes against Al -Hilal, and then two encounters were difficult for the players to retrieve their energy."

Asked about the Al -Ittihad victories chain at home, he said: "Supporting the audience is important for us, and he plays an important role for the players, I know that all our matches in Jeddah ended with our victory."

And Blanc continued: "I remember our confrontation against Al -Ahly was the most difficult and the audience at the time it was influential and without them we would not have triumph in the derby, thank you fans of the union."

Plan explained, Kanti's appearance in the second half, saying: "Kanti was not sure to end the confrontation because of his bruise."

He concluded: "Kanti is the best defensive axis in the league when the team needed him, it was just great.