"It's a happy moment we have long been waiting because we deserve to be happy after all these years of war," Kinda, a Syrian journalist, said.

Anas Joudeh, the head of the Nation Building Movement, said the game is a chance for all Syrians to unite, at least for the two hours of the game time.

"We wish to win the game, but the real victory is when we can agree on one thing ...," he posted on his official Facebook page.

Not only Joudeh, but most of the Syrians saw this event as uniting.

Opposition activists and loyalists have finally united on one thing, which is their hope for the Syrian team to win, with some activists posting supportive photos of the national team.

The stage to which the Syrian footballers have reached in the recent games is against all odds, with the difficulty of the training and the lack of good atmosphere with their country being ripped by a seven-year war.

"Today we have two victories, the first one when the army broke the Daesh siege on Deir al-Zour and the second is the results of the match," Kevork, a university student, said, using the Arabic acronym for the Islamic State (IS).

Earlier in the day, the Syrian army with the help of the Russians and Iranian-backed allies lifted the year-long siege on Deir al-Zour city and advancing toward ridding the city of the IS militants.

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