Al-Nassr suffered an enormous blow to his hopes of successful the Saudi Professional League after a goalless draw with lowly Al-Feiha, and Cristiano Ronaldo left the pitch in anger after a irritating efficiency on Sunday.
Leaders Al-Ittihad didn’t waste the chance to widen the distance with Al-Nassr to 3 issues with the final seven video games final, with a 2–1 victory in opposition to Al-Wehda. Al-Ittihad had a bonus additionally in a head-to-head outcome with Al-Nassr.
Ronaldo, 38, who joined Al-Nassr in January in a freelance estimated by way of media to be price greater than 200 million euros ($218 million), hit a ball into the palms of goalkeeper Vladimir Stojkovic, who kissed the ball within the 68th minute.
Stojkovic perceived to forged a spell at the ball because the Portugal captain fired two times over the bar within the house of six mins, and Brazilian Anderson Talisca, the league’s most sensible scorer, was once useless as smartly.
Ronaldo seemed livid whilst leaving the pitch after his objective tally stopped at 11 targets in 10 league video games, and he took off the captain’s armband and left it in his hand.
Al-Nassr trainer Rudi Garcia was once no longer happy with the efficiency, nor the end result.
“The result is definitely bad and we are not happy,” the French trainer informed the Saudi Sports Company (SSC) via a translator.
“I don’t feel satisfied with the players’ performance. I asked them to play at the same level as the last game (in the 5-0 victory against Al-Adalah), but this didn’t happen”.
Al-Nassr, who gained the identify for the final time in 2019, will play a an important sport subsequent week in opposition to Al-Hilal, the protecting champion and fourth within the standings, which would possibly decide the race for the identify.
“There are seven games left, we will try to recover, and we realize that it’s not easy after we lost two points, but everything is possible.”
Al-Feiha posted on Twitter an edited symbol in their captain Sami Al-Khaibari sitting in entrance of Ronaldo at a chess desk, reflecting a well-known commercial that includes competitors Lionel Messi and Cristiano.
The symbol captioned “checkmate”, drew greater than 1.9 million perspectives, in comparison to fewer than 100,000 perspectives for different web page posts.
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