Cristiano Ronaldo, infallible in his appointment with the goal, and the Brazilian Anderson Talisca, author of a double, They led to the victory against Al Shabab of Croatian Ivan Rakitic and Belgian Yannick Ferreira Carrasco of Al Nassr (2-3), which insists on chasing Al Hilal, leader of the Saudi Arabian League.
Al Nassr did not secure their sixth straight victory until the final stretch, with Talisca’s second goal, after a pass from Abdullah Al Khaibari, which ended the resistance of the local team that time and again neutralized the disadvantage.
Cristiano opened the scoring after twenty minutes by converting a penalty awarded for a handball by an Al Shabab defender inside the area.. The Portuguese is the competition’s top scorer, with 22 goals and 9 assists in the 21 games played so far.
Al Shabab also tied with a penalty. In the addition of the first part. A foul by Aymeric Laporte was punished with a shot from eleven meters. Former Atlético Madrid player Yannick Ferreira Carrasco tied.
Neither Cristiano Ronaldo, who did not fail his appointment with the goal and opened the scoring with a penalty, nor Al Nassr, who had won five in a row, could withstand the good streak of Al Shabab that avoided defeat and slowed down the progress of his rival in search of Al Hilal’s leadership in the Saudi Arabian League.
Al Nassr regained the lead at the beginning of the second half. Anderson Talisca scored after receiving a pass from Otavio. Even so, the local team led by Portuguese Vitor Pereira balanced the score again. Carlos Junior scored it from a pass from Habib Diallo.
And when the game was heading towards a tie, Luis Castro’s team’s winning goal came in the 87th minute, after receiving a ball from Abdullah Al Khaibari.
The victory, the sixth in a row, places Al Nassr six points behind the leader, Al Hilal, who visits Al Ettifaq on Monday, in their duel on the twenty-first day.
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