Cristiano Ronaldo
needed the goal and it took him four minutes to get it
after 24 days
.
It was in Al Nassr's 4-0 victory over Al Raed, which also represented the return to victory for the Portuguese team after four games between the local league and the loss in the semifinals of the Copa del Rey de Campeones.
Cristiano Ronaldo opened the scoring this Friday in the 4-0 victory of his team, Al Nassr, who was recently eliminated from the Copa del Rey and had gone
three games in a row
without knowing victory in the domestic tournament.
The Portuguese forward opened the scoring with a header to score his 12th goal in 12 games for the local tournament and open a rout completed by Abdulrahman Ghareeb (55), Mohammed Maran (90) and Abdulmajeed Al Sulaiheem (95).
With the victory, Al Nassr,
second in the table
, provisionally placed three points behind leaders Al-Ittihad, who has one game less.
In the last three games in the Saudi first division, Al Nassr accumulated a goalless draw against Al Feiha and a 2-0 defeat against Al-Hilal;
and one more defeat in the Copa del Rey against Al Wehda (1-0).
CR7's goal also came in a very particular week for him, since this Thursday some harsh statements by Musalli Al-Muammar, the president of Al Nassr, went viral.
In them, the boss of the Arab club defined the hiring of the Portuguese as a
"scam"
, after the team lost 1-0 in the semifinals of the Copa del Rey de Campeones against Al Wahda.
However, it was fake news.
DT Rudi Garcia, Cristiano Ronaldo and the president of Al Nassr, Musalli Al-Muammar.
(AFP)
"
I've only been scammed twice in my life. The first time was when I asked for three kebabs and they only gave me two. The second was for having signed Cristiano Ronaldo", were
the
supposed words of the Al Nassr president to a medium to a medium called "ArabiaNews50".
But neither the statements nor the medium existed.
The denial: "The statements are false"
"The statements that have come out in the Spanish press with a source from a page called ArabiaNews50 are false, they are not true in form or content. There is no Saudi or local media that has the name of ArabiaNews50. Apparently, some media they took it out of a joke and thought it was a real statement," Al Walid al Muhaidab, Al Nassr's press adviser, told EFE.
He also assured that the Portuguese star "has a two-and-a-half-year contract and the player is happy" and that "the club is very happy with him", despite the fact that he is going through a bad scoring streak and his team has been eliminated from various competitions.
Cristiano signed for Al Nassr at the beginning of this year and in what he has been at the Arab club he has accumulated a total of 12 goals in 14 games.
However, they were eliminated from the King's Cup of Champions, lost the Arabian Super Cup and is second in the local championship.
In addition, the team's coach, the Spanish Rudi García, was recently fired.
With information from EFE
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