Portuguese international star Cristiano Ronaldo saved his team Al-Nassr from falling into the trap of a draw, after scoring the winning goal against its host Al-Shabab by two to one in the fatal time of the match, yesterday, Friday, in the seventh round of the Saudi Professional League.
The goals of the match came in the second half, after the first half ended in a goalless draw, as Spanish international Aymeric Laporte opened the scoring for Al-Nassr in the 69th minute.
Exciting moments
The referee canceled a goal by Senegalese Sadio Mane, Al-Nasr player, in the 83rd minute, after returning to the video assistant referee due to offside, after which Al-Shabab equalized, through Ali Sadiq Al-Hassan, by mistake, in his own net, in the 90th minute.
When the match was heading to end in a draw, he succeeded Ronaldo In scoring the second goal for Al-Nasr in the 7th + 90th minute from a penalty kick.
The following minutes witnessed the height of excitement after the referee showed the red card to Mohamed Simakan, the Al-Nasr player, in the 12th + 90th minute of the second warning, before Moroccan Abderrazak Hamdallah missed a penalty kick for Al-Shabab in the next minute.
Then, Argentine Dario Herrera, the arena referee, blew the final whistle in front of 10,760 spectators.
Distinctive results
Al-Nasr continued its positive results under the leadership of its new Italian coach, Stefano Pioli, as the Saudi newspaper Al-Riyadiya explained that since the appointment of the Italian in the middle of last month, the team has overcome agreement, unity and Arabism in the league championship, Al-Hazm in the King’s Cup, and Al-Rayyan of Qatar in the elite AFC Champions League. .
For his part, he raised Ronaldo’s goals tally In the Saudi League, it reached six, moving it to third place in the top scorers’ ranking, after Frenchman Karim Benzema, who scored seven goals for Al-Ittihad, while Serbian Alexander Mitrovic from Al-Hilal remained at the top of the rankings with 10 goals.
With this victory, Al-Nasr raised its score to 17 points in second place in the Saudi League standings, lagging 4 points behind leaders Al-Hilal, while Al-Shabab’s score froze at 12 points in fourth place.
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