Al Hilal won the Saudi Arabia Super Cup this Saturday after crushing Cristiano Ronaldo’s Al Nassr 4-1. The Portuguese, who had also converted in the Al-Taawon semifinals, scored the goal that gave his team the lead at the end of the first half. But the joy was short-lived because his rival woke up and beat him up in the second half. Sergej Milinkovic Savic equalized history and then came the goals from Aleksandar Mitrovic, twice, and Malcom to give Jorge Jesus’ team a new Olympic turn.
Regardless of the result, Cristiano Ronaldo, 39, was in the eye of the storm due to the controversial gestures he made to his teammates when the game went uphill. While the Al Hilal players celebrate, the top scorer in the history of football broke all the codes and from the central circle began to dominate his team.
First she made the gesture of “they are taking a nap” to mark the distractions that facilitated her comeback to Al Hilal. After her, she joined the fingers of her hands upwards and signaled to them that they were afraid. And not satisfied with that, she resorted to an eschatological pout to make it clear that they did not have the personality to face a match of such caliber.
We will have to see how the teammates react in the locker room at the Prince Sultan Abdulaziz Stadium in the city of Abha. And also if the Portuguese coach Luis Castro takes some kind of retaliation for the Portuguese’s lack of respect.
To begin with, CR7’s dream of being champion again was destroyed by Serbian internationals Mitrovic and Milinkovic-Savic, who had already deprived Al Nassr of the league title.
If Milinkovic-Savic restored the tie on the scoreboard (1-1) after 10 minutes of the second half after a sensational one-two with Mitrovic on the edge of the area, eight minutes later, in the 63rd minute, Mitrovic himself put the lead (1- 2) Al Hilal by culminating a rehearsed play with an accurate header.
Goal that did not seem to appease the voracity of the Serbian striker who in the 69th minute made it 1-3 after sending a cross into the nets from the Brazilian Malcom who received the ball in advantage inside the area after a spectacular filtered pass from Sergej Milinkovic-Savic .
A goal with which Cristiano Ronaldo seemed to definitively give up the final, making it clear with his gestures that there was nothing more to do. But the punishment had not yet ended for either Al Nassr or the Portuguese star who three minutes later, in the 72nd minute, saw how an error by Brazilian goalkeeper Bento allowed Malcom to sign the final 1-4.