Al-Nassr is first football team suffered their second loss during their pre-season preparations at the hands of FC Porto on Sunday. This defeat came after playing four other friendly matches.
Porto dominated the first half at their famous Dragão Stadium, scoring four goals without reply. The second half ended goalless for both teams.
The global football statistics a famous website, gave Otavio Monteiro, Al Nassr’s Portuguese midfielder, the lowest rating of any player on the team, scoring him 5.7 out of 10. The second lowest rating went to Sultan Al-Ghanam, the right-back, who scored 5.9.
Following the four-goal first half, the coaching staff of the yellow team made five substitutions at the start of the second half. Five players played the entire match: Otavio, goalkeeper Nawaf Al-Aqidi, defender Ali Lajami—who received the highest rating among Al Nassr players with a score of 7.6—left-back Alex Telles, and midfielder Marcelo Brozović.
Al Nassr, currently in a training camp in Portugal, has one more friendly match before departing on August 1st for Spain, where they will play two more friendly matches.
Coach Luís Castro‘s team drew two of the four previous friendlies, won one, and lost the other to Portuguese side Portimonense 1-0 last Wednesday.
Al Nassr will begin their season facing Al-Taawoun on August 14th in the semi-finals of the Saudi Super Cup.
According to Castro’s announcement last weekend, star forward Cristiano Ronaldo is expected to join the preparations at the beginning of next month.
