al-nasr captain Cristiano Ronaldo has a glowing spell in the Saudi Professional League, scoring a hat-trick of goals for the second consecutive match in conjunction with winning the Player of the Month award in the competition for the fourth time.
Ronaldo, 39, found Abha three times last night during the big 8-0 win alongside Sadio Mané ‘
The five-time world MVP has strengthened his lead in ranking the league’s top scorers with 29 goals in 24 games, seven ahead of Serbian rival Aleksandar Mitrovic, who will miss six weeks to injury.
al-nasr captain Cristiano Ronaldo has a glowing spell in the Saudi Professional League, scoring a hat-trick of goals for the second consecutive match in conjunction with winning the Player of the Month award in the competition for the fourth time.
Ronaldo (39 years old) found Abha’s net three times last night during the big win of 8-0 alongside the two-goal industry of Sadio Mane, three days after scoring another hat-trick past Al Tai.
The five-time world MVP has strengthened his lead for league scorers with 29 goals in 24 games, seven ahead of Serbian rival Aleksandar Mitrovic, the al-hilal forward, who will miss six weeks’ injury
With eight games remaining, the former Real Madrid icon needs five goals to match Morocco’s record of Abd al-Razzaq Hamdallah, the current al-itthad striker, with the highest number of goals in a single season in the Saudi League, when 34 scored a goal in the 2018 – 2019 season in a al-nasr shirt.
Ronaldo’s decider seems a matter of time, and this will guarantee him another record of becoming the first player in the world to receive the league’s top scorer award in four different countries, following his previous success in England, Spain and Italy.
Only England’s Harry Kane, the German Bayern Munich striker, has been outscored by Ronaldo this season, with only two goals at the World League level.
Ronaldo has not only scored goals, having the highest number of assists in the Saudi league with 11 assists, to prove ready to compete strongly with Portugal at this summer’s European Championships in Germany.
Portugal looks a candidate for the continental title for the second time in
