Cristiano Ronaldo’s debut season in Saudi Arabia ended on Wednesday, with Al Nassr stomping to a shocking victory in entrance of their residence crowd.
Al Nassr signed off on the 2022/23 marketing campaign with a powerful 3-0 final-day victory over Al-Fateh within the Saudi Professional League on Wednesday.
With the title misplaced, and second-place safe, it was successfully a dead-rubber sport. Subsequently, Al Nassr didn’t embody Cristiano Ronaldo within the squad. They determined to relaxation their captain after he suffered a muscle damage in final Saturday’s 1-1 draw in opposition to Al-Ettifaq.
In CR7’s absence, Anderson Talisca led the best way for the Knights of Najd. The Brazilian scored two targets and assisted Mohammed Marwan for a 3rd. His efforts ensured the group completed with a decent 67 factors from 30 video games this season, 5 factors behind champions Al-Ittihad.
Final season’s Saudi Professional League champions, Al-Hilal, secured third place, eight factors behind Al Nassr, following an exciting 3-2 victory over Al-Raed.
What subsequent for CR7?
Ronaldo’s focus will now flip to the upcoming worldwide break. The striker is within the Portugal squad for the Euro 2024 qualifiers in opposition to Bosnia-Herzegovina and Iceland. He hopes to assist prolong the group’s 100% report in Group J.
If Ronaldo options in each of those video games, he’ll attain 200 worldwide caps. And given the actual fact CR7 scored 4 targets in Roberto Martinez’s first two matches in March, it’s onerous to see the Portugal supervisor passing up on the prospect to play the all-time main worldwide goalscorer.
Ronaldo additionally completed fifth within the Saudi Professional League Golden Boot race. Regardless of his late arrival in January, the striker made a right away impression at Al Nassr, scoring a powerful 14 targets in simply 16 video games. He completed seven targets behind the league’s high scorer Abderrazak Hamdallah. The Al-Ittihad star had 21 targets to his title in 26 appearances.
Portugal’s first sport in opposition to Bosnia-Herzegovina on this month’s Euro 2024 qualifiers is on June 17. They are going to go to Iceland three days in a while June 20.
