Al-Nassr suffered an enormous blow to their hopes of profitable the Saudi Professional League after a goalless draw with lowly Al-Feiha, and Cristiano Ronaldo left the pitch in anger after a irritating efficiency on Sunday.
Leaders Al-Ittihad didn’t waste the chance to widen the hole with Al-Nassr to a few factors with the final seven remaining, with a victory 2-1 towards Al-Wehda. Al-Ittihad had a bonus additionally in a head-to-head consequence with Al-Nassr.
Ronaldo, 38, who joined Al-Nassr in January in a contract estimated by media to be price greater than 200 million euros ($218 million), hit a ball into the fingers of goalkeeper Vladimir Stojkovic, who kissed the ball within the 68th minute.
Stojkovic appeared to solid a spell on the ball because the Portugal captain fired twice over the bar within the area of six minutes, and Brazilian Anderson Talisca, the league’s high scorer, was ineffective additionally.
Ronaldo appeared livid whereas leaving the pitch after his aim tally stopped at 11 targets in 10 league video games, and he took off the captain armband and left it in his hand.
Al-Nassr coach Rudi Garcia was not glad with the efficiency, nor the consequence.
“The result is definitely bad and we are not happy,” the French coach advised the Saudi Sports Company (SSC) by way of a translator.
“I don’t feel satisfied with the players’ performance. I asked them to play at the same level as the last game (in the 5-0 victory against Al-Adalah), but this didn’t happen”.
Al-Nassr, who gained the title for the final time in 2019, will play an important sport subsequent week towards Al-Hilal, the defending champion and fourth within the standings, which can decide the race for the title.
“There are seven games left, we will try to recover, and we realize that it’s not easy after we lost two points, but everything is possible.”
Al-Feiha posted on Twitter an edited picture of their captain Sami Al-Khaibari sitting in entrance of Ronaldo at a chess desk, reflecting a well-known commercial that includes rivals Lionel Messi and Cristiano.
The picture captioned “checkmate”, drew greater than 1.9 million views, in comparison with fewer than 100,000 views for different web page posts.
Source: www.anews.com.tr