Al-Nassr missed out on qualification for the AFC Champions League Elite, as Al Fateh twice got here from behind earlier than beautiful Cristiano Ronaldo and firm with a 96th-minute winner within the Saudi Professional League.
Al-Nassr went into the ultimate matchday of the marketing campaign needing a win to have any likelihood of overtaking Al-Hilal to complete second and take the ultimate qualification place.
Their hopes had been reinvigorated on Sunday, as they had been awarded three factors for a current 2-1 loss to Al-Orouba, who had been discovered to have fielded an ineligible participant.
However they completed with a defeat regardless of twice taking the lead by Ronaldo and Sadio Mane. Ronaldo arrived unmarked on the far submit to nod in a Forty second-minute opener, although Matias Vargas drew the hosts degree with a close-range end in first-half stoppage time.
Having missed a pair of evident probabilities, Mane tucked Nawaf Bu Washl’s right-wing centre house to place Al-Nassr 2-1 up within the seventy fifth minute.
Nonetheless, Mourad Batna’s fantastic free-kick dragged Al Fateh degree within the 81st minute, inflicting Al-Nassr to throw gamers ahead seeking a winner.
They had been caught out within the sixth minute of second-half stoppage time, with Matheus Machado drilling house on the second try after his preliminary shot was blocked again to him.
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In the end, even a victory wouldn’t have been sufficient to overhaul Al-Hilal, who beat Al-Qadsiah 2-0 because of targets from Aleksandar Mitrovic and Sergej Milinkovic-Savic.
Mitrovic discovered the bottom-left nook with a Twenty fifth-minute penalty to place them forward, then Milinkovic-Savic sealed the factors with a neat end throughout aim within the second half.
Al-Hilal completed as runners-up, 5 factors away from Al-Nassr, with fourth-placed Al-Qadsiah two factors behind Stefano Pioli’s workforce, who go into the AFC Champions League 2.
Champions Al-Ittihad, in the meantime, signed off with a 1-0 victory over Damac, with Steven Bergwijn clipping a end over Florin Nita within the 72nd minute.
Reigning AFC Champions League Elite champions Al-Ahli, in the meantime, completed fifth after beating Al-Riyadh 1-0 through a Sixteenth-minute penalty from Ivan Toney, the England worldwide’s twenty third league aim of the season.
On the backside, Al-Okhdood staved off relegation through a penalty from Mohammed Naif Saleh Al Jahif within the fifteenth minute of second-half stoppage time, with Al-Wehda happening courtesy of a 2-1 defeat to Al-Ettifaq, who scored a 96th-minute winner through Vitinho.
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Information Debrief: New low for Al-Nassr, however comfort for Ronaldo
Ronaldo has been linked with a switch away from the Saudi Professional League, with FIFA president Gianni Infantino suggesting he may transfer to a participant within the upcoming Membership World Cup.
If this was his closing sport for Al-Nassr, he went out on a bitter observe, exiting the pitch to a refrain of boos after Al-Nassr recorded their worst Professional League end since his 2022 arrival (second in 2022-23 and 2023-24).
Ronaldo did no less than obtain the comfort prize of the Golden Boot, ending on 25 targets to edge out Toney, having additionally gained it with 35 targets final marketing campaign.
