Cristiano Ronaldo scored a surprising first-half hattrick in Al-Nassr’s 3-0 win in opposition to Damac FC in a Saudi Pro League.
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Cristiano Ronaldo scored a surprising first half hattrick in Al-Nassr’s 3-0 win in opposition to Damac FC in a Saudi Pro League.
The five-time Ballon d’Or winner opened the scoring in the 18 minutes of the sport from the penalty spot after Ibrahim Al Nakhli was penalised for a handball contained in the penalty space. Then in the twenty third minute, Ronaldo made it 2-0 for Al Nassr, with a robust left-footed strike that grew to become his 169th from the weaker facet.
Receiving a cross from the appropriate wing, Ronaldo was surrounded by numerous gamers, however scored a screamer from outdoors the opposition field along with his left foot, taking pictures the ball into the bottom-left nook.
Cristiano Ronaldo accomplished his hat-trick in the forty fourth minute with Al Nassr on the counter-attack. Ronaldo obtained a cut-back cross close to the penalty spot from Sultan Al Ghanam, which he comfortably positioned over the opposition goalkeeper to make it 3-0.
Al-Nassr returned to the highest of the Saudi Pro League with the victory, two factors forward of Al-Ittihad, who dropped factors to Al-Raed at house on Thursday.
With the hattrick, the Portuguese worldwide now has 8 objectives in the Saudi Pro League after his record-breaking transfer away from Manchester United, in simply 5 matches.
Ronaldo got here to Saudi Arabia after falling out along with his boyhood membership Manchester United, enduring a troublesome relationship with their present supervisor Eric Ten Hag.
Cristiano Ronaldo was left on the bench for his facet’s essential Premier League video games in opposition to Tottenham Hotspur, and Manchester City, as Ten Hag blamed his lack of match health after which out of ‘respect for his career’.
