Ali Elbilehi, the defender of the First al-hilal football team, was inspired by the manner of celebrating his goal against Al Faiha yesterday, from France’s Christopher Nkunku, the English Chelsea forward.
The defender deciphered the orange team for a late goal in the 86th minute, immediately removing a blue “balloon” rubber bag from one of his socks and blowing it with air at the corner of the pitch closest to the rival’s goal.
This celebration is mainly due to Nkunku, who drew attention after his goal in a Leipzig shirt in last season’s German Cup final.
The striker then used a red balloon in the colour of his team’s shirt, which triumphed in that final over Eintracht Frankfurt with two clean goals and a championship title.
The Frenchman left Germany after the end of the season and moved to Chelsea, England.
At the moment Nkunku did not find a chance to carry out that celebration with Chelsea, because he scored only one goal in a team shirt that came during a two-goal deficit against Wolverhampton in a game that ended with the latter winning 2.
The player made only 3 appearances for Chelsea as a result of a knee injury that raided him during the prep and returned only midway through this month.
On his behalf, Belehi celebrated a blue balloon following his goal followed by another more late than his Serbian colleague Aleksandar Mitrovic, spearhead.
The defender once again starred in a poignant outcome of this year’s al-hilal . The 34-year-old scored a late goal in last season’s Copa del Rey final in front of the unit to lead the meeting to two more times and then a smiling shootout for the Capitalist team. Blue also saved against Nafbakhur Uzbekistan, last September, in the Asian Champions League, by scoring the equaliser “11” within 10 minutes of the alternate time, keeping the Blue record completely free of losses during the current season domestically and abroad.
