Al Hilal vs Al Fateh _ Highlights _ Roshn Saudi League _ 16th January 2025
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00:00Hello everyone and welcome to our live coverage from Riyadh on match day 15 in the Roche in Saudi.
00:11And away we go and it is Al-Fatih all in white to get the match underway.
00:21He's got defending to do here now as Jao Cancelo tees himself up, brings the save from Sapanos.
00:31And then Rickles to get his gloves on it the second time.
00:35Clever from Cancelo, that initial touch back onto his left foot but I think at that point he's got to calm himself down and find a teammate rather than try and tuck it in the near post.
00:46That's Al-Dalsri, back into Salem Al-Dalsri, the captain brings a sharp save.
00:52Second save already in the space of a couple of minutes there from Sapanos.
01:04Now a chance to venture forward with Sabai spreading the play.
01:09Way to Mourad Batna. Batna up against Al-Balai, nicely done.
01:15Oh what a save by Bono and it needed to be as well.
01:18Mohamed Sabai so close to putting the bottom of the table side ahead.
01:22Al-Fatih really pushing there and a whisker away from taking the lead against the champions Al-Hilal.
01:30Coulibaly! Coulibaly! Coulibaly! Coulibaly! Coulibaly!
01:38Not paying too much attention to him at the moment as the ball goes his way and he scores.
01:43Khalidou Coulibaly completely unmarked there as the corner came in.
01:47It's an easy one for him, gets up well.
01:50Coulibaly, nothing that the goalkeeper Sapanos can do about that.
01:54But there will certainly be an inquest about that defending and whose player was Coulibaly because he was free unmarked.
02:02He won't score an easier goal this season.
02:09That allows the game to continue. It's with Vargas.
02:12Giannini is up with him as well. Here's Batna now.
02:16As Al-Fatih look to try and get level and they have!
02:20Giannini turns it home!
02:22Perfect response from Al-Fatih.
02:26And no sooner had the champions gone ahead than they have been pegged back by the team at the foot of the table.
02:35Two and a half minutes between the two goals.
02:39Well, provided the goal is awarded, they will have a goal, which as you say Courtney, I think they deserve for the way they played in the opening quarter of the match.
02:50The referee though is still waiting for further advice from Kirill Levnikov and the team in the VAR room.
02:58So there is a chance that they will pull the game back for that challenge in midfield.
03:03The referee is signalling that the goal will not stand.
03:11It's a better pass out to Aldarsri.
03:14Great distribution by the Senegalese defender.
03:17Renan Lodi into the attack and into the back of the net. 2-0.
03:20Well, he's been making those sort of runs throughout the first half.
03:28That's why he does it.
03:30It's paid off.
03:31And one day short of his first anniversary at the club after signing from Olympic Marseille in France.
03:42Renan Lodi finds the back of the net. 2-0 Al-Hilal.
03:45Well, yet again those Al-Hilal fans have got plenty to smile about this season so far.
03:52Though they have, of course, been knocked out of the Kings Cup at the quarter-final stage.
03:56But currently leading the title race once more.
04:04And leading today.
04:05Salim Al-Darsri is across to take the corner.
04:09Just a 421 appearances for Al-Hilal.
04:12And then captain.
04:14And Ruben Neves digs it in.
04:17Like a painful clash of heads there inside the six-yard box.
04:23The ball played up towards Sergei Milinkovic-Savic.
04:27And I think it was Murad Batna going for it as well.
04:30Some claims of a handball once again, I think, from some players inside the penalty area.
04:35It did look a painful collision between the pair of them.
04:39Is it Batna with his arm up?
04:42Let's have a look here.
04:43It is.
04:44Did strike him on the arm.
04:50It is a penalty.
04:52Confirmation.
04:53Right at the end of this opening period.
04:56It's Marcos Leonardo for 3-0.
05:02So let's look about them now, haven't they?
05:06And it's Marcos Leonardo.
05:09Right on the edge of the penalty area, that challenge.
05:13I think the referee feels it was just outside.
05:16I mean, definitely a foul straight away.
05:17I thought surely not.
05:18Not another penalty.
05:20Tell you what, it wasn't far outside.
05:21It was really close.
05:22I'm sure that VAR will be taking a closer look.
05:25And that's Said.
05:27Batia gets a yellow card.
05:29I don't think he can complain about that too much.
05:32Surely one last attacking opportunity for the hosts in the first half here.
05:37Half-time very much on the horizon as Malcolm tees it back.
05:40Malinkovic-Savic!
05:42And it's number four.
05:43The power.
05:44See there's some blocking in there as well, just to make sure that he's free.
05:49It's a really well worked routine.
05:52A good finish.
05:53And 4-0.
05:58Complete domination of this match now from the leaders and the champions.
06:02It's a lovely move and it's a brilliant goal.
06:07Laser finish from Marcos Leonardo.
06:09Diving in again, right on the edge of the penalty area.
06:23The referee's going to give this almost on the line.
06:26The challenge from Suhaib Al-Zaid.
06:29And he gets a yellow card.
06:31He's the player who's on loan from Al-Hilal.
06:33Whipped in.
06:37And it's the header for number six.
06:39And Marcos Leonardo completes the hat-trick.
06:45Good play by Malinkovic-Savic.
06:47Motev Al-Habi.
06:50Salim Aldoussiri denied.
06:51The save made by Sapanos.
06:53But the pressure continues to come in waves.
07:01And with his first touch after coming off the bench, Abdullah Alhamdan makes it 7-0.
07:07The substitute.
07:09Very good ball in as well.
07:11Hung up.
07:12As if to say.
07:14Come on.
07:15Head me in the back of the net.
07:16It was such an inviting ball.
07:19When dispatched expertly by the substitute.
07:22More pressure.
07:32And it's the scorer of the seventh goal.
07:35Alhamdan.
07:37And we're into 11 minutes of added time.
07:39Malinkovic-Savic.
07:41And Malcolm gets in on the act as well.
07:43Turning it home at the near post.
07:46Goal number eight.
07:48And it is a night to forget for Al-Fate.
07:51And a night of great rejoicing for the champions.
07:55Who are going to take the three points.
07:58And significantly improve their already impressive goal difference.
08:05I think that reaction probably says a lot.
08:08I think he knows.
08:11That was a sort of like, yeah, maybe.
08:14Getting underway once more.
08:16Poor old Malcolm didn't get his goal.
08:17He put himself in a great position to score.
08:19And as we mentioned earlier in the match.
08:23He's only scored three goals this season.
08:24Which is not many for him.
08:25Considering he scored 23 last season.
08:28Challenge by Alhamdan.
08:31And relieved of the ball.
08:33And Malcolm will go again.
08:34And this time he will not be denied.
08:37There won't be an offside there.
08:38And Malcolm has the goal that his game today deserves.
08:44And Al-Hilal do have number eight.
08:47Four in each half.
08:49Well, Jose Gomez, the new coach of Al-Fate acknowledge what a formidable task lay ahead of his team when they went into this match.
08:56But I don't think even he thought it was going to be like that.
08:59As Malcolm is brought down.
09:01Right on the edge of the penalty area.
09:03And the referee waits.
09:04It's a red card.
09:06And Al-Fate are down to ten.
09:08And Sead Al-Jari has only been on the field for a few minutes.
09:12I'm not even sure he's touched the ball yet.
09:15Surely we're not going to get double figures.
09:17Mohamed Kano.
09:20With the free kick.
09:21Malcolm collects.
09:22Al-Othman challenging.
09:26That'll do it.
09:289-0.
09:29Al-Hilal.
09:32And the leaders thrashing bottom of the table.
09:37Al-Fate.
09:39The headliner really was Marcos Leonardo who scored a hat-trick before being stretched off with a head injury.
09:48Four goals in the first half.
09:50Five in the second.
09:53It just went from bad to worse for Al-Fate.
09:55The bottom of the table side.
09:56They actually finished the match with ten players.
10:00But Al-Hilal.
10:03Having scored five goals last week.
10:06Score nine this.
10:08They have beaten Al-Fate by nine goals to nil.
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10:26I'll just see that the corner match jump in with the entries for the division of the table.
10:29Hear Heritage.
10:30Share knot in the negative Commander it to me.
10:31guessed it.
10:32Get tested there to avoid the plane.
10:34Nice.
10:36Need for it.
10:38Ultimately.
10:40What's my goal?