Al Jazira is an Abu Dhabi club that has been pretty good for most of a decade but hasn’t been particularly good at sealing deals at the end of the UAE soccer season.

In 40 years, the club has one league title (2011), two President Cup championships (2011, 2012) and one Arabian Gulf Cup (2010).

That’s it.

Yet the club may be the most popular among expats in the UAE. In the five years we have been here, Jazira has been front and center in trying to get non-Emiratis into their stadium — which makes them unusual in these parts.

The rest of the league seems happy with their little crowds of neighborhood Emiratis (Dubai) or those from an emirate’s one team in the league (Sharjah, Ajman, Fujairah, etc.).

They hold the record for biggest crowd (over 38,000, in 2011) and play in the biggest stadium, one particularly easy to find and get to.

And the season they are having now? It’s almost as if they are going out of their way to attract novice or casual fans, or fans who have just arrived in Abu Dhabi.

Because Jazira excels at goals. Scoring them and conceding them. Which makes for the most interesting team in the league.

I went out to cover the Jazira match tonight, in their Arabian Gulf League game with the Dubai club Al Wasl, and it was a microcosm of the first half of their season.

Wonderful goals scored … ridiculous goals allowed.

After 13 games, Jazira has 37 goals, most in the league — and just shy of three per match, on average.

But they have conceded 26, third-most in the league, an even 2.0 per match.

How nutty has it been? Jazira has played two 4-3 games so far, two 4-2 games, a 3-3 game and three 3-2 games. They have allowed at least two goals in 10 of their 13 games, which is why they are 8-3-2 after 13 matches.

Tonight, a fine headed goal by Jucilei da Silva in the sixth minute, and then 40 minutes of Jazira domination, as they do what they do — go forward in numbers.

It looked like a done deal with Wasl’s captain, one of their interior defenders, picked up his second caution in the 33rd  minute and was sent off.

But this is Jazira. No lead is safe. Even when they have an extra man.

Wasl got even on a penalty in added time, set up when Mirko Vucinic was judged to have handled a ball on a free kick. So, 1-1 at halftime.

Wasl, a team of limited talent, took a 2-1 lead in the 48th minute on a horrible Jazira mistake. Abdullah Mousa, a goofy kid who has moved from the left side of midfield to the left side of defense to central defense, failed to put enough oomph on a backpass to his goalkeeper, and a Brazilian forward named Caio jumped on it, got the keeper down, and tapped in the goal.

All that did was make Jazira go forward even more recklessly, and with better results, scoring three goals in 17 minutes.

Vucinic, a Montenegrin who was with Juventus last season, got them even on a 15-yarder on a restart, then it was 3-2 when Jonathan Pitroipa, a Burkinabe who spent the previous three season with Rennes of the French league, took a long ball over the top from Manuel Lanzini, the tiny playmaker from Argentina, and it went up to 4-2 when Ali Mabkhout, the most prolific Emirati forward at this point in history, got the keeper to the ground by putting the ball behind him, sprinted around the sprawled keeper and tapped in the clincher.

It was serious entertainment. And well worth the cost. (There is no cost; you just walk into the stadium.)

What is queer about this Jazira team is that it is coached by Eric Gerets, the 60-year-old Belgian who, during a 21-season career, earned his keep by preventing goals — as a right back for several teams, including PSV Eindhoven’s 1988 European Cup champion (the competition is now known as the Uefa Champions League) and for the Belgium team that finished fourth in the 1986 World Cup in Mexico.

That PSV team, with Gerets as captain, allowed only two goals in their final six matches en route to winning the European Cup, which included a home-and-away with Real Madrid in the semifinals and a 0-0 draw with Benfica in the final, which Eindhoven then won 6-5 on penalties.

Gerets began coaching in 1992, and his teams pretty much played like he did — tight in the back, smart on defense, low-scoring.

Then he got to Jazira and has spent four months presiding over Showtime.

Jazira has four guys who pretty much don’t play any defense — Vucinic, a classic Itailan-style striker who has 16 goals in 11 league games; Mabhkout, who has nine goals, tied for second-most in the league; Pitroipa and Lanzini.

When Jazira wins a ball in its own end, it goes quickly to Lanzini or Jucelei, and they can be shooting at the other end in about six seconds. (That was the case on the Pitroipa goal.)

But the lack of working back, from the front four, leaves badly exposed a back six that is shaky. Very shaky. Even though two of the regular starters back there (midfielder Khamis Ismael, goalkeeper Ali Kasheif) are starters on the national team.

Jazira has huge problems in central defense, where Gerets is trying to get by with Abdullah Mousa, the former midfielder, and Musallem Fayez, a former right back.

Afterward, I asked Gerets about it, noting his long history with teams that rarely gave up easy goals. “Sometimes, I think we have to defend two goals instead of one,” he said in English. “In the past, it was not like this. My teams received very few goals, really.

“This is an exception, this season. So we try to work on it. Maybe something will happen in the transfer market. So, I’m waiting.”

But then he told reporters that the club is not getting rid of any of its four foreigners, meaning any changes on defense will have to come from the Emirati talent pool.

Or maybe they just plan to keep winning 4-2 and 4-3.

Never a dull moment. And you don’t have to be an Emirati to grasp that.