Cristiano Ronaldo is predicted to begin when Al-Nassr face Al-Shabab at house within the Saudi Professional League on Tuesday (August 29). The Knights of Najd will wish to construct on their 5-0 victory over Al-Fateh final time round.
Al-Nassr picked up their first win of the brand new league season in opposition to Al-Fateh and Ronaldo performed an enormous half in that sport. The five-time Ballon d’Or winner netted a hat-trick and offered an help as Luis Castro’s facet dominated the proceedings on Friday (August 25).
Cristiano Ronaldo is his membership’s predominant attacking risk and would be the first title on the workforce sheet when his facet tackle Al-Shabab. The Portugal skipper could possibly be partnered alongside Sadio Mane and Abdulrahman Ghareeb to kind a three-man assault. The previous scored a brace within the 5-0 demolition of Al-Fateh of their earlier league outing.
Al-Nassr’s three factors noticed them climb as much as eleventh within the Saudi Professional League this season. On the time of writing, they’re already seven factors behind the league leaders Al-Ittihad however have performed a sport fewer than the defending champions.
Al-Shabab, then again, are nonetheless and not using a win within the league. They’ve drawn two and misplaced considered one of their three video games this season and at the moment discover themselves languishing in fifteenth place within the standings.
Ronaldo has contributed three objectives and two assists from three video games throughout all competitions this season. He did, nonetheless, scored six objectives from six video games within the 2023 Arab Membership Champions Cup, which his workforce went on to win.
Cristiano Ronaldo and Al-Nassr have already confronted Al-Shabab this season
Regardless of the season nonetheless being in its early phases, Cristiano Ronaldo will already be going through in opposition to Al-Shabab for the second time. The 2 sides confronted off in opposition to each other within the group stage within the recently-concluded Arab Membership Champions Cup.
Al-Nassr might solely handle a 0-0 draw in opposition to their fellow Saudi Arabian outfit again in July. Cristiano Ronaldo didn’t begin the sport and as a substitute got here off the bench within the second half with half-hour remaining.
Ronaldo did attempt to pressure the initiative within the sport and managed to take three photographs within the small cameo he performed final month. Nevertheless, he failed to search out the again of the online with two of them not being heading in the right direction. He was additionally caught offside on two separate events.
Cristiano Ronaldo did face Al-Shabab as soon as within the earlier season. Al-Nassr picked up a 3-2 win on that event with Ronaldo netting the successful purpose on the hour mark. His facet got here again from 2-0 down to grab all three factors on the Al-Awwal Park.
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