The Portuguese crack Cristiano Ronaldo today scored his first goal in the first division of Saudi Arabia, number 820 in his successful sports career, which meant the agonizing tie for Al Nasser against Al Fateh by 2 to 2, for the 15th. Saudi championship date.
Ronaldo, who played his third official match in Al Nassr and started as a starter, converted in the third minute added to the game through a penalty executed officially that prevented the defeat of his new team.
⚽ And the third game came, from a penalty, Cristiano Ronaldo’s first goal with the @AlNassrFC
pic.twitter.com/lIeEdNYf4O— MARCA (@marca) February 3, 2023
With this conquest, the Portuguese star reached 820 goals in his career: 5 at Sporting de Lisboa (31 PJ); 145 at Manchester United of England (346 PJ); 450 at Real Madrid of Spain (438 PJ); 101 in Juventus of Italy (134 PJ); 1 in Al Nassr; and 118 in the team of his country (196 PJ).
The match referee was the Argentine Fernando Rapallini, who sent off the Al Nassr midfielder, the Brazilian Anderson Talisca (ST 45+5m).
The goals of Al Fateh, who played at home at the Prince Abdullah bin Jalawi stadium, were scored by the Spanish Cristian Tello (PT 12m) and the Algerian Sofiane Bendebka (ST 13m). Meanwhile, Talisco scored the transitory tie for Al Nassr (PT 42m).
Former Boca goalkeeper Agustín Rossi started Ronaldo’s team and former River Plate Gonzalo “Pity” Martínez came on 20 minutes into the second half.
Al Nassr, with 34 points, reached the top of the Saudi soccer league and shares it with Al Shabab, although with one game less.