Saudi Arabia coach Marcos Paqueta has labelled upcoming Group H opponents Ukraine "a weak team" after their 4-0 loss to Spain in their debut appearance at the World Cup.

Paqueta's team picked up a point in a dramatic 2-2 draw with Tunisia in Munich on Wednesday evening as Bolton defender Rahdi Jaidi scored an injury time equaliser to give the African side a share of the spoils.

Now the Saudis travel to Hamburg to face Ukraine on Monday in a vital game as both teams look to keep pace with the Spaniards in the race for one of the group's two places in the knockout round.

"We lost two points so we are together with Tunisia," said the Brazilian, who took over as Saudi Arabia coach from Gabriel Calderon in December.

"The team who lost three points, is Ukraine. Ukraine is a weak team and they will have to change how they play so they can score goals to qualify. We have to look at the situation against Ukraine."

Saudi Arabia are targeting a place in the second round for the first time since their debut appearance at the finals in the United States in 1994 and Wednesday's draw went some way towards erasing the memories of the nation's abysmal campaign in Japan four years ago.

Then they famously lost 8-0 to Germany in their opening game before subsequent defeats to Cameroon and the Republic of Ireland meant the Asian side were one of the first countries to exit the tournament.

Wednesday's result, however, could have been so much better for the Saudis.

After falling behind to Zied Jaziri's acrobatic finish in the 23rd minute, a tactical reshuffle by Paqueta saw his team emerge in a more positive frame of mind in the second half and a lightning quick break down the right ended with a sublime finish from Yasser Al Kahtani 12 minutes after the restart.

The game looked destined for a draw before veteran striker Sami Al Jaber - playing at his fourth World Cup - slotted home to give the Saudis the lead six minutes from time.

But the team's defensive frailty was exposed once more when Jaidi scored from close range after the Saudi back line failed to clear the ball in the third minute of injury time.

Tunisia coach Roger Lemerre admitted he was concerned about losing a player to a red card after Karim Haggui, Yassine Chikhaoui, Riadh Bouazizi and Adel Chedli were all booked by referee Mark Shield and the French coach replaced all but Haggui in the second half.

"That's the problem for everyone," said Lemerre, whose team face Spain on Monday. "Every coach has to deal with yellow cards, especially at a World Cup.

"At a high level you can't afford to have players expelled and it wasn't just Chedli We had to deal with four. People are suffering during the game and that happens and on the bench we have to deal with that.

"You can't risk having a player expelled. We had to take the measure of replacing the players, although it wasn't just because of the yellow cards."