The First al-nassr Football Team put 3 important points on its balance ahead of the confrontation in Clasico postponed
From the 17th round of the Saudi Rosen League, after the 3-1 win over the al-ettifaq, the hosts during the team’s clash at the First Park Stadium in the 18th stage of the league on Friday.
Al-Asimi responded to the eastern team, which he beat in the first round 2-1 at Prince Mohammed bin Fahd Stadium in Dammam.
He scored the triumph of al-nassr, Brazilian Alex Telles (44), Croatian Marcelo Brozovic (59) and Portuguese legend Cristiano Ronaldo (73 penalty), while Mohamed Al-Kaikbi secured the sole goal of al-ettifaq (85).
The result raised the al-nassr balance to 40 points in second place, 10 points behind the leaders al-hilal, with Yellow trailing the game, while the al-ettifaq remained at 24 points in eighth place.
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The al-nassr players imposed their style from the first whistle, and in the first dangerous chances Portuguese Ottavio played through Senegal’s Sadio Sadio Mane, who struck a close-range ball that passed next to the post at the 15th minute.
The response came swiftly from the al-ettifaq when Moussa Dembele played a close-range ball, taking advantage of a pass from Hamid Al-Ghamdi, but was blocked by Nawaf Al-Aqaidi, the keeper of the al-nassr.
Ronaldo almost opened the scoring at the 34th minute when he received a ball with his chest superbly, but his shot just before the goalkeeper saved a header from the Portuguese star from the Sultan’s sheep cross.
Talesca missed two chances within three minutes, before compatriot Alex Telles opened the scoring from a powerful shot straight from the boundary of the box, taking advantage of the defence’s failure to clear the ball.
In one of the few chances of al-ettifaq, Dembley went right and played a low cross that did not find a follow-up in front of goal at the 54th minute.
Six minutes later, Prozovic consolidated the al-nassr when he cut the ball from one of the defenders of the al-ettifaq to reach Ronaldo, who set it up with a header for the Croatian player, who had set it up from the bird position.
Ronaldo’s attempts continued with a powerful close-range shot, taking advantage of Mane’s cross, but his shot went up the bar before the Portuguese finally found the net from the penalty spot, which Mane obtained from the left, during which a defender touched the ball with his hand inside the area.
The goal of the honorary al-ettifaq came five minutes before the end, when the unattended asteroid put the ball in the net
