Top scorer in the history of football and a great specialist in particular of penalties, Cristiano Ronaldo changed his way of performing the repair kicks. The fivefold Ballon d'Or makes a momentum in slow motion before hitting, like Lionel Messi, Neymar or Vitinha, but he missed Wednesday with Al-Nassr against Al Khaleej.
On a penalty generously spotted by the video referee (and granted by the central referee), “CR7” sent his cross strike outside the frame (66th). The score was still 0-0 and it was John Duran, from the head on a center of Sadio Mané, who unlocked the situation (75th). Ronaldo finally made the nets tremble in additional time by transforming this time a penalty, once again not very obvious, in favor of Al-Nassr (97th).
The Portuguese Legend of the Round Ballon is at 935 goals at the high level and is therefore only 65 achievements of the symbolic bar of the 1,000 units, which should extend with his Riyadh club until 2027. In terms of penalty, Ronaldo is now at 178 marked and 33 failed, which gives a success rate of 81% in this exercise.
No Asian LDC for Ronaldo
As a reminder, the Al-Nassr season is a terrible failure. The training now led by Stefano Pioli was again unable to mingle with the title race. After Al-Hilal last year, it was Al-Ittihad, led by Laurent Blanc and led by Karim Benzema, who was crowned champion of Saudi Arabia brilliantly.
Al-Nassr, who will play his last against Al-Fateh on Sunday, will not end in the Top 2 and will therefore not play the next Asian Champions League. Afflicating for a superstar like Cristiano Ronaldo. Al-Nassr can still compete in the Champions League Two if he tears 3rd place in Al-Qadisiya next weekend and that Al-Ittihad wins the cup.
