Al Wehda vs Al Nassr
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00:00Match Week 22 continues in the Roshan Saudi League at the King Abdulaziz Sports City in Mecca
00:12while Al Nasser travel to meet the bottom club Al-Waida. Al Nasser some way short of full strength
00:18for this game against an Al-Waida side who are currently bottom of the Roshan Saudi League.
00:26Only three victories so far this season and for them their recent form is very poor.
00:33Four successive defeats and they may have gone to Al-Khulud with hopes of taking something away from home at the weekend.
00:46And an hour later than planned we are underway.
00:50Al-Waida in the red shirts defending the goal away to our left.
00:54In the first half.
00:58Coming to the league so a couple of games and you do start to question don't you whether
01:04or when it's going to stop but you have every faith in what Cristiano Ronaldo is all about.
01:11And a clash of heads here so there will be treatment for both players.
01:20A nasty one there. Al-Fatil the player who just seemed to lean in to Yaya Najee and both really took the brunt of that.
01:29Yeah both going for the ball and see why it's been a halting play.
01:33Now Enric Laporte is coming off the field of play as well and Salim El-Nasdi was rather just feeling at his hamstring even before he came on.
01:44It's a promising sign you can see that the Kato just behind the hamstring there.
01:52High line from Al-Nasdi at the moment but here is Al-Ghariba at the other end.
01:56Ronaldo waits in the centre but just makes the wrong run and then Kashish with the shot which was blocked by the legs of Al-Ohashir.
02:04Yeah and then a longer range effort this time from Yaya but it was dragged wide.
02:11Yeah it's much better.
02:13Al-Nasdi you can see that run that we touched on.
02:17Al-Ghariba coming from that left hand side he's trying to look for Cristiano Ronaldo.
02:21He picks that pass. It's not a bad ball is it really because it ends up coming right out to this left hand side where...
02:28Al-Hassan alongside Al-Sulahim at the heart of midfield.
02:39Ronaldo releasing Kashish on the overlap and Gharib arriving to volley over the top but I think the better option may have been Sadio Mane.
02:47Yeah I think maybe.
02:58Getting results it creates that momentum. That's all it does.
03:04Kretu now on the overlap again. Needs to be a good cross but it's helped away by Najdi but Bakuna.
03:11Giving the room to come inside and it's the first effort on target but it's comfortable for Bento.
03:17Yeah that's...
03:18You see the likes of Bakuna getting on the ball as he does here. There's a slight nick off the bottom with a boot there.
03:28But now an opportunity for Ronaldo.
03:37Driven wide and he goes for the curler. Fisted away by Al-Ohashia.
03:42He's just going on that Cruyff and then he's trying to bend it. You can see what he's trying to do.
03:47Angelo now has got space.
03:56Comes inside onto that left foot. Good delivery!
03:59And it's the sort of delivery that Ronaldo was waiting for.
04:04And Cristiano Ronaldo opens the goal scoring.
04:07What a goal. What a goal.
04:11As I said, the front two need service and that's what the two substitutes have been brought on.
04:17Mosley and Angelo.
04:18And they've just produced. That's what it's all about.
04:20It's putting good delivery into the boxes.
04:22Getting the ball into wide areas where we know Al Nasser are very, very good.
04:27And we know how good that man Cristiano Ronaldo is any time a ball is put in an area where he can run onto.
04:36Utilising that half a yard, that pace and then the power.
04:40I mean it's absolutely brilliant.
04:41And that's all down to the ball.
04:43And Angelo, it's got pace on it.
04:45It's going towards the goalkeeper.
04:47All it needs is that final touch.
04:50And the main man Cristiano Ronaldo gets that right in that far corner.
04:53No chance for the goalkeeper.
04:55Well, credit to Pioli.
04:59He made the changes.
05:01And Angelo has come up with yet another assist this season.
05:06And Cristiano Ronaldo on the score sheet once again in the Roshan Saudi League.
05:1266 in 69 games.
05:18And O'Lehli.
05:19Oh, that's a good ball into the penalty area.
05:21Qadari!
05:22Oh, what a chance.
05:24But he puts it wide.
05:26And he has to score.
05:28I mean it's not the easiest of opportunity.
05:30But it's the best one by Farfoot and O'Lehler in the box.
05:37Abusha.
05:39He's been given away.
05:40Back to Swin.
05:41Amien.
05:41Gave Bento the opportunity to move across.
05:54It's a fantastic point you make because I think complacency can come so far into it.
06:00You can come up against sides that you just feel that it's going to be routine.
06:04They won't get into the game.
06:06Here is Mane.
06:07Space for him now.
06:08He can come back onto the left foot.
06:11And it whistles across the face of goal.
06:14He claims the deflection.
06:15Yeah, he was always chasing that ball down to get the right amount of power and try to guide it in.
06:27And that's a nice one-two with Al-Sulahi.
06:29Mane goes for goal, but it's cut out by Al-Makahasi.
06:33It will be a corner.
06:34In towards Al-Oasir, the goalkeeper, Al-Yamik rather took it away from him.
06:45Wesley.
06:46And Ronaldo!
06:48Just wide.
06:49Appeals for offside as well.
06:52He might well have just strayed offside.
06:55Ronaldo, this will give us a better view.
06:57Actually, I think he's onside.
06:59I think it's Al-Yamik that just plays him on.
07:02Just needs that touch on it.
07:04Like the goal, really.
07:06Decent little ball in there.
07:10Almost threading the ball through towards Al-Isir, but Al-Nasa will clear.
07:18Angelo.
07:20And he's taken out by Al-Yamik.
07:22And the match will finish here with an Al-Nasa free kick.
07:27Yeah, brilliant play.
07:29Just taking the ball up the pitch.
07:31Angelo.
07:32And in that free kick.
07:34I'm sure that we will see.
07:36This was a match which was all about getting the job done for Al-Nasa.
07:40And that's what they appear to have done.
07:44Ronaldo hits this.
07:45It pings off the wall.
07:48Over the top and it will be a corner.
07:50Ronaldo claiming handball.
07:51Yeah, he said so, didn't he?
07:53He said off the tip of the shoulder.
07:57Put an elbow out there.
07:59.
08:00What's up?
08:01That was Danino Bakuna.
08:05Ronaldo's convinced.
08:12Penalty.
08:12And El Nasser have the opportunity to finish things off here
08:21Five goals so far this season for Sadio Mane in the Roshan Saudi League
08:28And Mane steps up and he makes no mistake
08:36And El Nasser are back in pole position in the race for the Asian Champions League
08:41And then this composed penalty from Sadio Mane absolutely brilliant
08:46Just tucks it home and does look a comfortable result, doesn't it?
08:50But it's nowhere near a comfortable 2-0 result whatsoever
08:54But El Nasser have the victory, the full-time whistle has gone
09:02And they are back up into third place at the moment in the Roshan Saudi League
09:07Ronaldo with the header early in the second half
09:10Mane with the penalty right at the end
09:13And Alveda remain bottom, full-time
09:17Alveda nil, El Nasser 2
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