Ronaldo scores his first goal with Al-Nassr from a penalty shot, but this goal wasn't enough to bring the three points to the team who are competing for the SPL title. Although the competitor isn't a weak team, Ronaldo seems to be missing the harmony with other players. Apart from this, it was notable that the player who scored the first goal for Al Fatih is Cristian Tello, who was once a player for Barcelona, while playing now for the first time with Al Fatih.
although Al-nassr was able to dominate the match more. But actually Al-Nassr almost got a defeat in that. Al-Nassr was very lucky to get a penalty kick at the end of the game. And Cristiano Ronaldo was able to take advantage of the penalty kick well and made Al-nassr avoid defeat. because if Al-nassr loses this fight. then Al-nassr's ranking will drop to position 2. Luckily Al-nassr at least got a draw in this fight. but in the next match Al-nassr cannot suffer another defeat and must be able to get full points again if they want to maintain their first position in the current standings. 
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Cristiano Ronaldo presence is surely big advantage for the Al Nassr but here we have to understand one thing it's not alone Ronaldo who is going to change all things in just few matches they need to have changed their strategy and bring some quality as well for having better results because we all know this soccer is not one player game it needs all players to contribute for having better results in leagues just one player can bring some improvement but still we need to have good contribution from others as well for having good results same happening here.
If coach is not happy then surely he needs to talk and have better way of having better results which is now important even they are not going to have any challenge for the win of title but still they need to have better coordination between players and good strategy as well which improve teams performance.
I think there is also the fact that other team may focus on defending Ronaldo so much that other players could find themselves chances to score. For example, Talisca has been quite great when it comes to scoring, because defenders were all on Ronaldo in a few positions which Talisca was a great player to take advantage of as well.If coach is not happy then surely he needs to talk and have better way of having better results which is now important even they are not going to have any challenge for the win of title but still they need to have better coordination between players and good strategy as well which improve teams performance.
I believe that Ronaldo will get better with some more time, but at the same time I believe that he could be used as a decoy as well, I know it is not normal to pay someone hundreds of millions of dollars to be a decoy, but if you put just one defender on Ronaldo, he will score, hence why other teams risk getting scored by others by defending Ronaldo heavily and that is a good thing for Al-Nassr.
Anything about ronaldo would be increasing the traffic for the media. I would not be surprised that ronaldo got so many blames if he was not able to make the goals. I have seen some memes about him too. I see a video that shows that al nassr fans was stomping on ronaldo's jersey. Im not sure if that was real al nassr supporter or not but how dumb people who have expecting something big to come from ronaldo which was not young anymore.
Those who blame ronaldo must be so dumb. they think football is only about ronaldo making goal against its opponent.
Those who blame ronaldo must be so dumb. they think football is only about ronaldo making goal against its opponent.
With such a fantastic salary, Ronaldo must prove that he is still worthy. at least, he should "contribute" to his new club. but unfortunately, Ronaldo has not been able to give his skills, as the coach and All Nassr fans want "at his current age". Obviously, this caused a lot of reactions from fans and football lovers. even criticism came from within the team itself, the coach Rudi Garcia was not happy with All Nassr's defeat against Al Ittihad in the Saudi Super Cup. the presence of Ronaldo, did not have a big impact on the performance of the All Nassr team.
I think it's only natural that his fans expect something big from him. the reason is, in an interview session with Piers Morgan, Ronaldo said that he could still score a lot of goals. apart from all that, anything related to Ronaldo, still seems to be hot news for sports media journalists.
I believe that the owner's intention of signing Ronaldo was more about bringing attention to Saudi Arabia's bid to host the next World Cup and not just solely relying on Ronaldo to carry the team. But still, we can't deny that everyone wants to see Ronaldo score and bring a victory to Al Nassr, that would be a great boost for the team and the fans. Let's see what the future holds and hope that everyone, including Ronaldo, can bring their A-game
Ronaldo scores his first goal with Al-Nassr from a penalty shot, but this goal wasn't enough to bring the three points to the team who are competing for the SPL title. Although the competitor isn't a weak team, Ronaldo seems to be missing the harmony with other players. Apart from this, it was notable that the player who scored the first goal for Al Fatih is Cristian Tello, who was once a player for Barcelona, while playing now for the first time with Al Fatih.
Al-Fateh VS Al-Nassr Al Fateh team scored a goal at the start of today's game. And after the first attack missed, Cristiano Tello's second shot from outside the box touched the ball into the net at Al-Nassr's goal post. But so far Al Nassr has not been able to attack. At the beginning of the match, Al Fateh was successful in the first attack after 11 minutes. Is it possible for Cristiano Ronaldo to win the team today?
cristiano win todays match? I think you have a too big expectations of him! I myself am curious whether he will be able to score goals for Al Nassr in today's match because many people have high hopes for him, especially Al Nassr fans and also bettors who definitely choose Al Nassr to win in today's match.Al-Fateh 2-1 Al-Nassr, club/Ronaldo yet to reveal. It is hardly believe that this Al Nassr topped the Saudi Pro League table before Cristiano Ronaldo debut. So far, their results and performance have been quite disturbing. As Al Nassr have few more minutes left to level the match, but can Cristiano Ronaldo deliver the goal the fans have been waiting for?
Today Al Nassr will compete against Al Fateh, Al Nassr's ranking has dropped to second place but because they still have 2 matches to play and the match will be an opportunity for Al Nassr to return to the top if they can win, H2H Al Nassr is better and this will remains a match where Al Nassr is the favorite to win.
This game is now entering the second round. and right now, the score is 2-1. both of them looked very impatient in attacking. but Al Nassr had more possession.
But when this happened, Al Nassr trailed by 1 goal early in the first half. and they managed to equalize to 1-1 at the end of the first half. in this match, Ronaldo became the spearhead of Al Nassr. and hopefully, he can score another equalizer after Bendebka put Al Fateh 2-1 up.
Al-Fateh VS Al-Nassr Al Fateh team scored a goal at the start of today's game. And after the first attack missed, Cristiano Tello's second shot from outside the box touched the ball into the net at Al-Nassr's goal post. But so far Al Nassr has not been able to attack. At the beginning of the match, Al Fateh was successful in the first attack after 11 minutes. Is it possible for Cristiano Ronaldo to win the team today?
cristiano win todays match? I think you have a too big expectations of him! I myself am curious whether he will be able to score goals for Al Nassr in today's match because many people have high hopes for him, especially Al Nassr fans and also bettors who definitely choose Al Nassr to win in today's match. 
Al-Fateh VS Al-Nassr Al Fateh team scored a goal at the start of today's game. And after the first attack missed, Cristiano Tello's second shot from outside the box touched the ball into the net at Al-Nassr's goal post. But so far Al Nassr has not been able to attack. At the beginning of the match, Al Fateh was successful in the first attack after 11 minutes. Is it possible for Cristiano Ronaldo to win the team today?
Today Al Nassr will compete against Al Fateh, Al Nassr's ranking has dropped to second place but because they still have 2 matches to play and the match will be an opportunity for Al Nassr to return to the top if they can win, H2H Al Nassr is better and this will remains a match where Al Nassr is the favorite to win.
With such a fantastic salary, Ronaldo must prove that he is still worthy. at least, he should "contribute" to his new club. but unfortunately, Ronaldo has not been able to give his skills, as the coach and All Nassr fans want "at his current age". Obviously, this caused a lot of reactions from fans and football lovers. even criticism came from within the team itself, the coach Rudi Garcia was not happy with All Nassr's defeat against Al Ittihad in the Saudi Super Cup. the presence of Ronaldo, did not have a big impact on the performance of the All Nassr team.
I think it's only natural that his fans expect something big from him. the reason is, in an interview session with Piers Morgan, Ronaldo said that he could still score a lot of goals. apart from all that, anything related to Ronaldo, still seems to be hot news for sports media journalists.
The owner of Al Nassr has said clearly their real goal of signing cristiano ronaldo for the next 2 and a half years is as a campaign for saudi arabia to be able to host the next world cup so they don't expect Cristiano to be a superman who has to score goals in every match that al nassr do.I think it's only natural that his fans expect something big from him. the reason is, in an interview session with Piers Morgan, Ronaldo said that he could still score a lot of goals. apart from all that, anything related to Ronaldo, still seems to be hot news for sports media journalists.
in the SPL at the moment al Ittihad is ranked 4th but in the past Arab Super Cup, they are really tough. back to the match that will take place today, Al nassr will face al fateh and the host in this match is al fateh, hope that everyone cristiano can bring victory to al nassr, hopefully, that will happen later.
With such a fantastic salary, Ronaldo must prove that he is still worthy. at least, he should "contribute" to his new club. but unfortunately, Ronaldo has not been able to give his skills, as the coach and All Nassr fans want "at his current age". Obviously, this caused a lot of reactions from fans and football lovers. even criticism came from within the team itself, the coach Rudi Garcia was not happy with All Nassr's defeat against Al Ittihad in the Saudi Super Cup. the presence of Ronaldo, did not have a big impact on the performance of the All Nassr team.
I think it's only natural that his fans expect something big from him. the reason is, in an interview session with Piers Morgan, Ronaldo said that he could still score a lot of goals. apart from all that, anything related to Ronaldo, still seems to be hot news for sports media journalists.
I think it's only natural that his fans expect something big from him. the reason is, in an interview session with Piers Morgan, Ronaldo said that he could still score a lot of goals. apart from all that, anything related to Ronaldo, still seems to be hot news for sports media journalists.
Once again, I need to disagree with you.
Ronaldo doesn't need to prove anything. Whatever he needs to prove, he has done that during the last two decades. And his "contribution" will be measured in a different way. His contribution will not be measured in terms of the number of goals that he score, but rather by the increased viewership and attention for the Saudi Professional League. And in this regard Ronaldo has performed better than expected. Now coming to their defeat against Al Ittihad, Al Nassr needs to do introspection. Ronaldo's presence only helped them in that match.
Yea you can give opinions and do productive criticism, winning a game require team effort and hardwork alone Ronaldo cannot do any magic . All team members have to work efficiently for winning game.
With such a fantastic salary, Ronaldo must prove that he is still worthy. at least, he should "contribute" to his new club. but unfortunately, Ronaldo has not been able to give his skills, as the coach and All Nassr fans want "at his current age". Obviously, this caused a lot of reactions from fans and football lovers. even criticism came from within the team itself, the coach Rudi Garcia was not happy with All Nassr's defeat against Al Ittihad in the Saudi Super Cup. the presence of Ronaldo, did not have a big impact on the performance of the All Nassr team.
I think it's only natural that his fans expect something big from him. the reason is, in an interview session with Piers Morgan, Ronaldo said that he could still score a lot of goals. apart from all that, anything related to Ronaldo, still seems to be hot news for sports media journalists.
Cristiano Ronaldo presence is surely big advantage for the Al Nassr but here we have to understand one thing it's not alone Ronaldo who is going to change all things in just few matches they need to have changed their strategy and bring some quality as well for having better results because we all know this soccer is not one player game it needs all players to contribute for having better results in leagues just one player can bring some improvement but still we need to have good contribution from others as well for having good results same happening here.I think it's only natural that his fans expect something big from him. the reason is, in an interview session with Piers Morgan, Ronaldo said that he could still score a lot of goals. apart from all that, anything related to Ronaldo, still seems to be hot news for sports media journalists.
If coach is not happy then surely he needs to talk and have better way of having better results which is now important even they are not going to have any challenge for the win of title but still they need to have better coordination between players and good strategy as well which improve teams performance.
With such a fantastic salary, Ronaldo must prove that he is still worthy. at least, he should "contribute" to his new club. but unfortunately, Ronaldo has not been able to give his skills, as the coach and All Nassr fans want "at his current age". Obviously, this caused a lot of reactions from fans and football lovers. even criticism came from within the team itself, the coach Rudi Garcia was not happy with All Nassr's defeat against Al Ittihad in the Saudi Super Cup. the presence of Ronaldo, did not have a big impact on the performance of the All Nassr team.
I think it's only natural that his fans expect something big from him. the reason is, in an interview session with Piers Morgan, Ronaldo said that he could still score a lot of goals. apart from all that, anything related to Ronaldo, still seems to be hot news for sports media journalists.
I think it's only natural that his fans expect something big from him. the reason is, in an interview session with Piers Morgan, Ronaldo said that he could still score a lot of goals. apart from all that, anything related to Ronaldo, still seems to be hot news for sports media journalists.
Once again, I need to disagree with you.
Ronaldo doesn't need to prove anything. Whatever he needs to prove, he has done that during the last two decades. And his "contribution" will be measured in a different way. His contribution will not be measured in terms of the number of goals that he score, but rather by the increased viewership and attention for the Saudi Professional League. And in this regard Ronaldo has performed better than expected. Now coming to their defeat against Al Ittihad, Al Nassr needs to do introspection. Ronaldo's presence only helped them in that match.
Anything about ronaldo would be increasing the traffic for the media. I would not be surprised that ronaldo got so many blames if he was not able to make the goals. I have seen some memes about him too. I see a video that shows that al nassr fans was stomping on ronaldo's jersey. Im not sure if that was real al nassr supporter or not but how dumb people who have expecting something big to come from ronaldo which was not young anymore.
Those who blame ronaldo must be so dumb. they think football is only about ronaldo making goal against its opponent.
Those who blame ronaldo must be so dumb. they think football is only about ronaldo making goal against its opponent.
With such a fantastic salary, Ronaldo must prove that he is still worthy. at least, he should "contribute" to his new club. but unfortunately, Ronaldo has not been able to give his skills, as the coach and All Nassr fans want "at his current age". Obviously, this caused a lot of reactions from fans and football lovers. even criticism came from within the team itself, the coach Rudi Garcia was not happy with All Nassr's defeat against Al Ittihad in the Saudi Super Cup. the presence of Ronaldo, did not have a big impact on the performance of the All Nassr team.
I think it's only natural that his fans expect something big from him. the reason is, in an interview session with Piers Morgan, Ronaldo said that he could still score a lot of goals. apart from all that, anything related to Ronaldo, still seems to be hot news for sports media journalists.
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Only Ronaldo can't make Al Nassr win games and only Messi can't make PSG win games , I have watched games featuring Messi-Neymar- mbappe on a PSG side but PSG lost that game so Al Nassr failure in the Saudi super cup shouldn't be blamed on Ronaldo alone, the media always looks for a way to hype any situation surrounding Ronaldo, Ronaldo at this point needs media protection.
Only Ronaldo can't make Al Nassr win games and only Messi can't make PSG win games , I have watched games featuring Messi-Neymar- mbappe on a PSG side but PSG lost that game so Al Nassr failure in the Saudi super cup shouldn't be blamed on Ronaldo alone, the media always looks for a way to hype any situation surrounding Ronaldo, Ronaldo at this point needs media protection.
First of all, no one expects Ronaldo to perform in a way he used to perform when he was in his 20s. The reason why Al Nassr paid such a huge amount to Ronaldo is not just to keep them at the top of the table (if you check the points table for Saudi Professional League, you can see that Al Nassr is already at the top of the table). Ronaldo was brought to Saudi Arabia, in order to give the SPL and Saudi football more exposure to the outside world. The long term target is to win hosting rights for the 2030 FIFA World Cup and Ronaldo is a part of the bidding team (there are rumors that he will soon take up citizenship of Saudi Arabia).
Yes, that's what I've heard as well. Moving Ronaldo towards Al-Nassr FC wasn't the only goal of the Saudi Arabia, they're vision are much more broader and wider than that because they are already thinking up ahead and will join the bidding of Egypt and Greece to co-host the next, next World Cup which is in 2030. Actually, there are lots of countries now that are having a joint bid to increase their chances but, the Egypt-Greece-Saudi Araba joint bid is the most probable.
I don't think we have any big upset in this match because right now Al Ittihad is having 31 points from 14 matches and if they won their remaining match then surely they could be at the second spot and still have fair chance to give challenge to leaders Al Nassr for the title of 2023 soccer league as they also have many foreigner players those are giving their best for this club. Now we have recently too much talk about this league and many have no knowledge about this, so they are surprised but as we all know results like these can happen in English Premier League and other leagues as well, so soccer is a game of upsets and shocking results.
There is only two points difference between the top-4 teams (Al-Nassr, Al-Hilal, Al-Shabab and Al-Ittihad). Al Nassr and Al-Ittihad have played only 14 matches each, so that gives them an advantage. Tomorrow we have the match between Al Fateh and Al Nassr, while Al Ittihad will be facing Al Adalah on 10th February. In both the cases, the opponents are considered as weak sides and therefore these two clubs have a chance to strengthen their position at the top. We are almost mid-way through the season. Each club is supposed to play a total of 30 matches, and at this point most of them have completed 14-15 matches.
@Sithara007 why are we all even discussing about his nationality change?, because he won’t ever change it no matter what the media say or even if he got unlimited amounts of money for the citizenship he yet wouldn’t take it. Furthermore there’s speculation that they intent to use him for their World Cup bid, but that’s baseless as there’s no clause which requires him to back Saudi for the World Cup hence let’s burry this speculations and focus on the games news only.
I don't want to divert the topic, but never say "never". 
For Al Nassr, the next match will take place on 3rd February (Friday). Many of the users have already mentioned this, but their defeat against Al Ittihad during the Saudi Super Cup was a big surprise. I don't know what happened, but maybe Al Nassr needs sometime to adjust with Ronaldo in their lineup. At this point they don't have much to worry. They are still at the top of the table with 33 point from 14 matches. Al Hilal has 32 points, but they have played one additional match. All that said, they need to win against Al Ittihad.
SPL is getting more attention,soon we will be seeing good football from this league because,there will be an improvement in the league,if good players are signed into the league. Ronaldo present can encourage young players to play in SPL from other leagues.
@Sithara007 why are we all even discussing about his nationality change?, because he won’t ever change it no matter what the media say or even if he got unlimited amounts of money for the citizenship he yet wouldn’t take it. Furthermore there’s speculation that they intent to use him for their World Cup bid, but that’s baseless as there’s no clause which requires him to back Saudi for the World Cup hence let’s burry this speculations and focus on the games news only.
I don't want to divert the topic, but never say "never". For Al Nassr, the next match will take place on 3rd February (Friday). Many of the users have already mentioned this, but their defeat against Al Ittihad during the Saudi Super Cup was a big surprise. I don't know what happened, but maybe Al Nassr needs sometime to adjust with Ronaldo in their lineup. At this point they don't have much to worry. They are still at the top of the table with 33 point from 14 matches. Al Hilal has 32 points, but they have played one additional match. All that said, they need to win against Al Ittihad.
@Sithara007 why are we all even discussing about his nationality change?, because he won’t ever change it no matter what the media say or even if he got unlimited amounts of money for the citizenship he yet wouldn’t take it. Furthermore there’s speculation that they intent to use him for their World Cup bid, but that’s baseless as there’s no clause which requires him to back Saudi for the World Cup hence let’s burry this speculations and focus on the games news only.
I don't want to divert the topic, but never say "never".
For Al Nassr, the next match will take place on 3rd February (Friday). Many of the users have already mentioned this, but their defeat against Al Ittihad during the Saudi Super Cup was a big surprise. I don't know what happened, but maybe Al Nassr needs sometime to adjust with Ronaldo in their lineup. At this point they don't have much to worry. They are still at the top of the table with 33 point from 14 matches. Al Hilal has 32 points, but they have played one additional match. All that said, they need to win against Al Ittihad.
I definitely disagree that he would change citizenship, he will stay a Portuguese person and that is not going to happen, impossible. However, marketing part is true and 2030 is long way out, we have 7 more years which means that if they got Ronaldo already, and can get Messi and they can get some other older stars, and spend that much money on everything, then two things will happen.
First of all, there will be more people around the world watching their games and viewership is important, Qatar never had that and still got it, so this is a benefit. Secondly we are going to see more money going into football, and that will make it easier to achieve world cup requirements as well.
First of all, there will be more people around the world watching their games and viewership is important, Qatar never had that and still got it, so this is a benefit. Secondly we are going to see more money going into football, and that will make it easier to achieve world cup requirements as well.
I don't understand the talk here. If someone changes his citizenship, then he becomes a traitor? That is laughable, because in that case we have hundreds of millions of traitors around the world. More than a million people newly become the citizens of the United States every year. Saudi citizenship though naturalization is extremely hard to obtain and from what I have heard they have provided passports to only a few thousand people so far. There are strict requirements such as fluency in Arabic and more than 10 years of residency in the kingdom.
In case Ronaldo acquires Saudi nationality, then he need to relinquish his Portuguese passport. The reason is that Saudi passport holders are not allowed to hold dual citizenship (although Portugal allows that).
@Sithara007 why are we all even discussing about his nationality change?, because he won’t ever change it no matter what the media say or even if he got unlimited amounts of money for the citizenship he yet wouldn’t take it. Furthermore there’s speculation that they intent to use him for their World Cup bid, but that’s baseless as there’s no clause which requires him to back Saudi for the World Cup hence let’s burry this speculations and focus on the games news only.
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