00:30Al-Nasr again facing up to the dominant domestic force of Al-Hilal,
00:34with silverware at stake in the Super Cup.
00:38Al-Hilal won as recently as April,
00:41this time around it's back as the curtain-raiser.
00:47Al-Hilal who get the action underway, all in the white.
00:51From left to right,
00:53won't be too many surprises, Sam Park, in between these two sides,
00:56given the frequency and intensity of recent meetings.
01:01No doubting the importance.
01:12First opportunity for Michael to flash it in,
01:14and it had to be dealt with and touched behind.
01:17It's a quite brilliant ball, it's the perfect area to hit.
01:20Milankovic-Savic does make the distance up.
01:27That actually came all the way through to the keeper,
01:29and it just glanced that on, he had a little look over his shoulder.
01:32Milankovic-Savic trying to flick it across the six-yard box,
01:35nearly ended in an own goal.
01:39To try and win it back here,
01:41and return it to Nourdieu.
01:44Bono got a glove on it.
01:46Appeals are ongoing as the keeper comes clear,
01:49and tries actually to stop the counter-attack,
01:51you could see what he was trying.
01:53Cristiano Ronaldo's complaints continue though.
01:56They're not interested, the officials.
01:58Otavio did really well there, to keep that alive.
02:01Yeah, he's never going to get to the ball, even with his spring.
02:06Neves taking the pass from Koulibaly.
02:09Helping it wider.
02:11This is a strong run.
02:13Just maybe trying to take on one too many, Salomel Dorceri.
02:17Because he had other options in the middle.
02:19Yeah, the change of pace was electric once he received it off.
02:24Malcolm, the thing actually,
02:26Algernon does brilliantly not to make a challenge there.
02:29Just to put the brakes on,
02:31and make sure he wasn't going to be given away a penalty.
02:34The brother on the bench, Abdulhamid,
02:36is the regular really in that right-back role.
02:38He started the semi-final as a substitute.
02:44That one flashes in off the post,
02:46and it's scrambled away.
02:48It's not going to count, or it wouldn't have counted.
02:51But hearts were in mouths for a moment with Mitrovic in there.
02:54Yeah, he went really early here.
02:56Keeping an eye on him,
02:58just probably encapsulates the start he's had to this game.
03:00A little bit frustrated, desperate to get in there.
03:02Well, it was too early.
03:04It's a wonderful fingertip save, though.
03:06Quite brilliant from Bento.
03:08Koulibaly.
03:11Garib, able to bring it down.
03:13Bring it under his belt.
03:15And he's still going here, Garib.
03:17Did really well in towards Ronaldo to get the touch.
03:21And late in the first half, Al Nasser,
03:23in front in the Super Cup.
03:26He's afforded a nice little bit of space, that said.
03:31To Malcom.
03:34Inflates it in towards Mitrovic.
03:36Making a nuisance of himself in between the two defenders.
03:39Just did enough to deny him.
03:45Without Malcom in support.
03:47Maybe that's key,
03:50getting Malcom a little bit more of the ball.
03:52Savic gets it back from Mitrovic
03:54and walks his way through
03:56to score the equalising goal.
04:01El Halal back on terms.
04:031-1.
04:06And after the initial few touches,
04:08your willingness to end up in the back of the net,
04:10that is brilliant.
04:12Driving through a couple of challenges.
04:14The little roll with the studs as well.
04:16Enjoyed that, just to open up the shooting opportunity.
04:19Probably high into the net.
04:21Lifts it on his weaker side.
04:23Beyond Bento into the roof of the net.
04:25It's a quite brilliantly fashioned equalising goal.
04:32Defence coming under more sustained pressure now, though.
04:35Neves with the cross. Mitrovic's rising!
04:37And getting the touch to it
04:39to turn this around.
04:41Good deliveries in this second half
04:43and this is just exquisite from Neves
04:45because it takes the goalkeeper out of the game.
04:48He just comes wandering,
04:50comes looking for it almost, the goalkeeper.
04:52And as a centre-forward,
04:54when that is in flight,
04:56your eyes are lighting up.
04:58The trajectory of it means
05:00it's such a simple finish for Mitrovic
05:02who's getting the run on his opposite number.
05:04Goalkeeper in no man's land.
05:06You've got to say, really,
05:08had he stayed, maybe he could have
05:10changed his position and come out
05:12and claimed that in the end.
05:14Mitrovic gets a really simple goal.
05:17Brilliant ball in it was.
05:23That's well worked.
05:25That was cut back by Malkin for Mitrovic
05:27and that might just do it.
05:29He's got himself another one.
05:33Teles, for example, just getting back into the pitch now.
05:35I think too many players tiptoeing forward.
05:37Don't regain their shape.
05:39They're detached.
05:41You can see the defensive line is all over the place there
05:43when Malkin takes receipt of that.
05:46Putting it back into an area
05:48and Mitrovic is just alive, isn't he?
05:50To pull out, he's quicker than any opponent.
05:52Repositions himself
05:54and then just thumps that
05:56into the roof of the net.
05:58It's another real clinical finish from him
06:00having not been in the game
06:02on a hat-trick all of a sudden.
06:08It's a heavy touch.
06:10It could be a gift of a goal.
06:12It is. Nightmare moment for Benso
06:15and it's all going wrong for Luis Castro
06:17and El Nacer.
06:19Split. It's just a heavy touch off the right foot
06:21and then he's scrambling to recover.
06:23He's a little bit rushed the way he goes in.
06:25Malkin evades it.
06:27Thought for a moment
06:29he was going to step aside and allow Mitrovic
06:31to get his third but
06:33Malkin has split to get himself on the score sheet
06:35and does so.
06:37A gift.
06:39Some return for Malkin.
06:42And they've made it count in some style
06:44in the second half
06:46to get the job done.
06:48The outcome
06:50no longer in doubt really well
06:52before the conclusion.
06:54Having much to a couple of quick goals from Mitrovic
06:56after a brilliant equaliser
06:58from Milinkovic-Savic.
07:00The last one was gifted somewhat to Malkin
07:02and Al-Hilal hold on to the Super Cup.
07:04Winners in the final by four goals
07:06to one for the second season
07:08in succession.
07:10A record extending fifth occasion.
07:12Al-Nasr won.
07:14Al-Hilal four is the way it's finished.
07:16The presentation now
07:18it's what they've been waiting around for.
07:20It's what they've become accustomed to
07:22seeing really of lately.
07:24Al-Hilal supporters
07:26whatever the competition certainly domestically
07:28their side have been
07:30the dominant force.
07:40We have put on a show
07:42in Abba tonight
07:44and indeed over the course of the last
07:46few days with those two closely
07:48contested semi-finals as well.
07:50Al-Hilal about
07:52to lift the prize.
07:58I think we'll be up first the officiating team
08:00from Portugal
08:02tonight.
08:04Good game, didn't he?
08:06Artus Suarez Diaz
08:08in charge.
08:10Just took this thing out of some situations
08:12a few flashpoints.
08:14The referee gets the right feeling.
08:16The officials
08:18did a really good job tonight.
08:20You always get to be an edge
08:22when these two rivals get together.
08:24Certainly the case throughout the contest.
08:26So they receive their medals
08:28for the part that they've played.
08:35Such a sense
08:37of occasion
08:39in circumstances like this.
08:43Decision made this year
08:45to bring this competition back
08:47to its traditional home really
08:49is the curtain raiser to
08:51the new campaign. It's the first time in
08:53six years that it has been the case.
08:55It has set up Al-Hilal
08:57with the opportunity
08:59to make a super start to the
09:01defense of their trophies.
09:03One of them secured already.
09:08Before they get their medals,
09:10before they get the trophy.
09:12Applause for the runners-up.
09:14Once again, Luis Castro
09:16and his side
09:18have to settle for second
09:20in a two-team contest with
09:22Al-Hilal. It was the case in the title
09:24race. It was a race really that
09:26Al-Hilal were well clear
09:28of long before its conclusion. It was the case
09:30in a much more closely contested
09:32cup final in the final
09:34game of last season.
09:36They struck first
09:38today. They briefly raised hopes
09:40just before halftime. They didn't get
09:42as close as it turned out
09:44this time around.
09:47Frustration that they will use to fuel
09:49what will come in the campaign
09:51ahead, but it's a familiar
09:53feeling, I guess, the disappointment that they're having
09:55to digest right now.
09:57Yeah, I suppose it's that motivation
09:59they're going to have to take from this
10:02to be better,
10:04I think, and to match
10:06their other rivals
10:08that are going to, along with
10:10Al-Hilal, come back strong, start the season.
10:12They're going to want to make it
10:14a more thrilling title race. I'm sure
10:16those sides
10:18just won't want to feel
10:20this again. So they've got to use this as motivation.
10:22All smiles now.
10:26Raw feeling that comes at the
10:28final whistle, maybe starting to
10:30go upside and you can switch
10:32your thoughts towards the start of the campaign
10:34and how they're going to go about
10:36achieving their goals. Got enough good players,
10:38haven't they, to be closer to Al-Hilal that
10:40absolutely wasn't evident
10:42today in that second half. Maybe a few
10:44additions to come and
10:46maybe that will freshen up the
10:48appetite as well.
10:53And Ronaldo got his customary
10:55goal at the end of the first half.
10:57Ultimately not enough. Sadio Mane maybe
10:59might have as significant a say
11:01today as he would have been hoping for. There has
11:03been a little bit of speculation about his
11:05future a season
11:07into his career at the club.
11:10Played his part in the semi-final success
11:12in setting up one of the goals that
11:14got them here that earned their shot
11:16at their great rivals again. Another shot at
11:18their great rivals.
11:20Once more they have just fallen
11:22short. They're coming off second
11:24best against Koulibaly
11:26in the battle of the Senegalese.
11:28As has tended to be the case during their
11:30respective spells in Saudi Arabia
11:32so far.
11:34The runners-up medals handed out.
11:36Now the party can get started
11:38very shortly for Al-Hilal.
11:40They've waited patiently, haven't they, since
11:42the full-time whistle went.
11:44The presentation party
11:46has assembled on the podium.
11:48I'm sure Jesus will lead his side
11:50up yet again. He's getting used to this.
11:59Yet another trophy.
12:02Yet another medal for the collection
12:04for Jesus.
12:06The age of 17 now. A serial
12:08winner. 24 competitions
12:10won across three continents.
12:12Three Saudi
12:14Super Cups to his collection now.
12:18No sign of a let-up in his team's
12:20domestic dominance.
12:22That will be maybe even more important.
12:24The significance of this
12:26success as much of the
12:28medals that they're receiving around their necks.
12:30Mitrovic with two goals in quick
12:32succession, taking this final away
12:34from Al-Nasser.
12:36Once again, he was in the right place, wasn't he, to do
12:38what he does. He was quiet
12:40in the first half, that's
12:42for sure. I think when
12:44he faces games of that nature
12:46he sometimes comes really deep and
12:48starts looking to get involved in the
12:50build-up play. So pivotal he is
12:52working as a focal point.
12:54He's always the first kind of outlet for a side
12:56to try and hit, but
12:58today stayed in the
13:00box as an opposition.
13:02You've got to try and keep him out of there.
13:04Sounds simplistic, but
13:06as soon as you allow him to
13:08get the run on you, he's so aggressive
13:10with intelligence as well.
13:12His movement to
13:14position himself where he's going to get chances.
13:16Very Mitrovic goals it
13:18felt tonight. A far post head-up
13:20and a finish from, what, six or seven
13:22yards out where he was just the quickest
13:24to react in the 18-yard box.
13:26There's no one comparable, is there?
13:28I don't think in the league he's going to give you that
13:30consistency
13:32and that regularity
13:34of performances.
13:36It's something that the
13:38others are going to have to get on with
13:40to find those goals, probably
13:42from various sources rather than
13:44that one player who is just so
13:46consistent. He has,
13:48like Ronaldo, just an incredible desire
13:50to find the back of the net.
13:52Both starting as
13:54they mean to go on
13:56at the opening of a new campaign.
13:58It's Mitrovic's moment
14:00tonight with the two goals that turn
14:02this around.
14:04Brilliant equaliser from
14:06Melinkovic-Savic in which Mitrovic played
14:08his part as well.
14:10Just over ten minutes into the second half, that
14:12Melinkovic-Savic equaliser. It changed everything
14:14really, didn't it, as it turned out?
14:16It did. It was a moment of rare quality
14:18at that stage. Brilliant goal
14:20from him. As I said during the
14:22commentary during the game, every touch
14:24almost had to be perfect. He had five or six
14:26touches maybe, Melinkovic-Savic,
14:28but the way he had to
14:30maraud through challenges
14:32and then the finish itself
14:34when the goalkeeper's spreading himself
14:36to lift it showed great intelligence
14:38as well, so it was a brilliant goal.
14:40So the medals are around the necks
14:42and the captain now is about to
14:44lift the trophy, Salah Al-Dawsiri.
14:46The skipper with more
14:48success to celebrate
14:50the fifth Super Cup
14:52win this for Al-Hilal. He's been involved
14:54as Al-Dawsiri in all but the
14:56first of them.
14:58And the tank is placed, I think,
15:00in the middle of his teammates on that stage
15:02very shortly before lifting that
15:04trophy aloft.
15:08No sign soon of them losing
15:10this winning feeling on the evidence of
15:12what we've seen tonight.
15:14Salah Al-Dawsiri
15:16makes his way to his teammates
15:18to start the celebrations
15:20because once again Al-Hilal
15:22have won the Saudi Super Cup.
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