On the morning of March 16, the 39-year-old striker scored the only goal to help Al Nassr defeat Al Ahli in round 24 of the Saudi Pro League.
In the 68th minute, Al Nassr was awarded a penalty after Sami Al Najei’s breakthrough attempt. From the 11 meter mark, former Chelsea goalkeeper Edouard Mendy tried to apply pressure but could not catch Cristiano Ronaldo’s dangerous shot.
After scoring, CR7 ran to the corner of the field, where Al Ahli fans were to celebrate. Immediately, a “rain” of bottles was poured down by home fans in response to Ronaldo. While the 39-year-old superstar left, Otavio, Sadio Mane, Marcelo Brozovic stayed behind to continue to provoke Al Ahli fans.
Al Nassr player provoked home fans amid the “rain” of bottles.
Al Nassr player provoked home fans amid the “rain” of bottles.
In the first half, Ronaldo also put the ball into the home team’s net after a breakthrough attempt. The former MU star also celebrated Siu and was thrown a water bottle by Al Ahli fans. One of them hit Otavio in the head. Immediately after that, VAR stepped in and announced that CR7 was offside when receiving the ball from his teammate.
Ronaldo scored the second goal from the penalty spot in two consecutive matches, thereby helping Al Nassr temporarily overcome the crisis after four consecutive matches of draws and losses.
Ronaldo raised the record for scoring the most goals in history to 879 goals, and also reached the milestone of 50 goals in the Al Nassr shirt. Immediately after this match, the superstar born in 1985 will return to join the Portuguese national team to prepare for two friendly matches against Slovenia and Sweden at the end of March.
In addition, the victory over Al Ahli also helped Al Nassr temporarily narrow the gap with Al Hilal to 9 points but having played one more match. At this time, Ronaldo and his teammates are guaranteed tickets to the 2024/25 AFC Champions League, when they are 16 points ahead of the 4th place team, Al Ittihad.
