Cristiano Ronaldo gave a show in Saudi Arabia
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The Portuguese forward scored three goals in the first half for the 3-0 victory of his team, Al Nassr, as a visitor over Damac, on date 18 of the Saudi Professional League, where his team climbed to the top with 43 points and took two points ahead of Al Ittihad, who drew 0-0 against Al Raed on Thursday and now lost the lead.
The one who did not play was
Agustín Rossi
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The former Boca goalkeeper who came to the Saudi Arabian team on loan for six months remained on the substitute bench and the goal was occupied by Nawaf Al-Aqidi, who has barely four games in the First Division.
It is the second time that the Portuguese attacker has scored three goals in a match since he arrived in Saudi Arabia.
In five games played in the League with his new team, Cristiano has already accumulated eight goals.
He got four against Al Wehda and one against Al Fateh.
Now three more against Damac.
Cristiano scored all three goals in twenty-six minutes of the first part.
He opened the scoring in the game at the Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz Stadium in Abha after eighteen minutes by converting a penalty and signed the second five later by taking advantage of a ball received by Sultan Al Ghanam.
Ronaldo's third goal was one from intermission from Ayman Yahya's pass.
Pity Martínez, absent due to a serious injury
Gonzalo Martínez suffered a torn cruciate ligament in his left knee last Wednesday.
"Medical examinations have shown an injury to Pity Martinez's anterior cruciate ligament. We wish him a speedy recovery. You will come back stronger, cheer up," the Arab league club published on its social networks.
River's former number 10 was successfully operated on in Barcelona by the doctor Ramón Cugat, a world specialist in the treatment of these injuries.
The Argentine had entered 18 minutes into the second half of the match against Al-Taawon, which Al Nassr won 2-1, last Friday.
It was his last game with the team, his ninth so far this year.
Pity Martínez had managed to leave behind the injury to the external collateral ligament of his right knee that had him almost without playing in 2021, already in the Middle East.
The 29-year-old footballer spent eight months off the pitch until he gradually regained his rhythm, confidence and settled down again.
In fact, he was one of the outstanding players in the team with the stars of Arabia - already with Cristiano as a teammate and with Marcelo Gallardo as eventual coach - that faced Lionel Messi's PSG in an international friendly in January.
Al Nassr confirmed that the former Hurricane, River and Atlanta United have an injury that will take between six and eight months to recover
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