Al Nassr was twice in advantage, the first of which through a penalty converted by Cristiano Ronaldo, 41 minutes, nullified by Al Ahli, which was more effective on the tiebreaker, with the decisive kick belonged to former FC Porto Galeno.
Al Ahli won, this Saturday, the Saudi Arabia Football Super Cup, imposed on Al Nassr, by Jorge Jesus, Cristiano Ronaldo and João Félix, in the tiebreaker by Penalis (5-3), after equality 2-2 in Hong Kong.
Al Nassr was twice in advantage, the first of which through a penalty converted by Cristiano Ronaldo, 41 minutes, nullified by Al Ahli, which was more effective on the tiebreaker, with the decisive kick belonged to former FC Porto Galeno.
In a lawn in poor conditionwhat associated with heat and rain created additional difficulties to players, Al Ahli created the first danger situation by Galen, just three minutes, but the shot was intercepted by the opposite defense.
Al Nassr responded for João Félix, 11 minutes into the minute, with a play in which the Portuguese international won the ball in a duel with Galeno and narrowly failed to serve a colleague, ending the goal in goalkeeper Édouard Mendy.
In a short time there were some situations of relative danger created by Al Nassr, Wesley, 16 minutes, but the ball came out of Mendy’s goal, by João Félix, at 19, and Kingsley Coman at 22.
Cristiano Ronaldo, who whenever he played the ball, led the stadium to delirium, tried the goal with a bicycle kick after 23 minutes, and at 41 inaugurated the scoring to Al Nassr in the conversion of a penalty to punish Ali Majrashi.
At 45 minutes, Al Ahli saw a goal annulled outside the English game Ivan Toney and already in the discount period reached the draw by Costa Marfinense Franck Kessié (1-1), with a shot placed the ball of the goalkeeper Bento.
O Al Ahli entered the second partmoralized by the draw achieved over the break, although it was Al Nassr, by Cristiano Ronaldo, to create a danger situation, 52 minutes, resolved by Mendy, with an attentive defense.
With the course of the meeting the quality of the game declined, much due to the lawn and the heat, which forced to stop for hydration, and despite the scarcity of opportunities, Al Ahli was close to scoring by beasts, 71 minutes, with a shot to the pole.
With the Penaltis tiebreaker spectrum hovering in the lawn, Al Nassr came to the advantage by Croatian Marcelo Brozovic (2-1), on 82 minutes, in the use of a mistake by Kessié, the author of the goal of Al Ahli, who tried to dribble her area.
In a last breath, Al Ahli’s formation reached 2-2 tie by Roger Ibañez, 89 minutes into the area, after a false departure from goalkeeper Bento after.
On the tiebreaker of Penaltis, in which Cristiano Ronaldo and João Félix scored, Al Nassr failed one by Khaibari and Galeno did not falter in the decisive kick (5-3), without hypotheses for Bento, who was worth the conquest of Saudi Arabia Super Cup for Al Ahli.
