Ronaldo misses penalty as Al Nassr eliminated from Saudi King’s Cup

Portuguese star’s stoppage-time punishment flies implicit the barroom and knocks implicit a young instrumentality filming him from the stands.

Cristiano Ronaldo missed a stoppage-time punishment and his Saudi Pro League nine Al Nassr were eliminated from the King’s Cup successful a 1-0 nonaccomplishment to Al Taawoun.

The five-time Ballon D’Or victor has yet to triumph a large trophy since signing for the nine astir 2 years ago.

Playing astatine the round-of-16 signifier of Saudi Arabia’s premier knockout contention connected Tuesday, Al Taawoun took the pb connected Waleed Al-Ahmad’s header with 20 minutes remaining. Al-Ahmad was past whistled for a foul successful the country successful the 95th minute.

Ronaldo had converted each 18 of his erstwhile penalties for Al Nassr but this clip changeable implicit the barroom and drew daze from the location assemblage of 14,519 astatine Al-Awwal Park successful the Saudi superior Riyadh.

The shot knocked implicit a young instrumentality who was filming the Portuguese icon with his telephone successful the stands down the goal.

Ronaldo has scored 73 goals successful his 82 appearances for Al Nassr since joining the nine successful December 2022.

The decision is the archetypal for Stefano Pioli since the Italian succeeded Luis Castro arsenic caput manager successful September.

Ronaldo and Al Nassr inactive person 2 chances astatine silverware this play but are already six points down person Al Hilal aft 8 games successful the league, and person 7 points from 3 games successful the radical signifier of the Asian Champions League.

“Technically we performed good but we couldn’t triumph the game,” Pioli said.

“We consciousness disappointed to beryllium retired of the cup. But we inactive person 2 trophies to spell for and we volition springiness our champion successful them.”

Source

:

Al Jazeera and quality agencies