Cristiano Ronaldo did not travel about 2,200 miles on a trip, as Al-NASSR was held by Esteghlal at the Iran national stage in the first leg of the Champions League AFC round.
Five times Ballon d’Or winner Ronaldo He shared a support message for his team on his Instagram account-the most followed on the platform-hours before he started, saying, “Let’s go.”
Al-Nassr went closer during a first half than the first half to the Azadi Stadium of 78,116 capacity, where Ramin Rezaeian heads of Ayman Yahya’s header from the line after Iran’s goalkeeper Hossein Hossein had kept out of the shot of Jhon Duran.
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Dirt – £ 65 million January by Aston Villa – sent a low finish against a position and had twice returned to Hosseini as Colombia in front went a third game with no target for his new club.
The second leg will take place in Riyadh on March 10 (6pm GMT).
Why didn’t Ronaldo play for Al Nassr in Iran?
Al-Nassr wrote the organizers to ask the game to play “on neutral ground” because of the “Ronaldo’s bad experience in Tehran”, according to the DPA news agency via via via Post line.
Police reportedly had to disperse the crowds that rushed to the Al Nassr hotel when they visited the Tehran Persepolis Club in September 2023.
Ronaldo did not participate when Al-Nassr drew 0-0 at Azadi Stadium against Persepolis, who also uses the ground on February 17, though his side had already been hired for the last 16 from that point.
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The Captain of Portugal Official YouTube channelWhich has almost 74 million subscribers, flows the Riyadh’s final Padel during this game.
The two-time African footballer of the year Mane was an unused substitute in Persepolis and not in the Al-Orobah Saudi Pro League 2-1 match on Friday.
Esteghlal vs al-nassr
Al-Nassr Stefano Pioli’s director made four changes, bringing Sadio Mane to Ronaldo, the full Nawaf Boushal for Majed Qashish and Wingers Awad Ali Al-Hassan and Ayman Yahya for Abdulmajeed al-Sulayhem and Wesley Teixeira.
The hosts assumed the defense of the five people and had 29% of the first half of the first half, but Iran’s national team’s newcomer Mohammad Reza Azadi examined goalkeeper Al-Nassr Bento in a corner car.
Esteghlal had the first chance for the second half when Armin Sohrabian headed in space, signaling a bright reboot after Kyrgyzstan forward Joel Kojo came for Azadi in the half.
Sohrabian turned into the provider to produce a golden opportunity a little later, finding Rezaeian in front of a goal with a cross -loose cross from the left that his colleague could only move the wrong side of a position.
Esteghlal: Kojo threatens the winner
Al-Nassr defeated Esteghla 1-0 through his former Manchester City, the Laporte target in Dubai during the team on October 22.
Recently managed by former Bost Miodrag Bozovic Crvena Zvezda, Esteghlal won the AFC Champions League in 1970 and 1991.
The oldest professional team in Tehran has won the Persian Tower Pro League nine times, but today it is ninth of the 16 clubs in the department after winning only six of the first 21 league games of the season.
Having lost Persepolis on Thursday, Esteghlal held their own against Al-Nassr and approached the last winner when Kojo headed very wide.
Objectives Cristiano Ronaldo
Ronaldo has spent once in the last four games of the league, but is still the top scorer in the Saudi Pro League with 17 goals, followed by Al-ITtihad’s Karim Benzema at 16.
The 40-year-old collected the week’s championship award before Al-Nassr played at Al Orobah on Friday, but ended in the evening with misery for the Real Madrid final scorer, as the fourth-scored Al-NASSR threw the points for the ninth time in the ninth game. 1-1.
With 11 league championships in the remaining campaign, Al-Nassr is 10 points behind Al-ITtihad leaders, four shy-olds from the second reigns Al-Hilal champions and three of the third-party Al-Qadsiah.
Ronaldo Champions League statistics statistics
Ronaldo has six goals in this season’s AFC Champions League, as the 40-year-old has seen his lonely trophy since he participated in Al-Nassr in early 2023, winning the Arab Club Champions Cup that year.
Four of these goals have come to his last three appearances in the competition, scoring twice each other to Qatar’s opponents Al-Gharafa on November 25th and at the home of the Emirates al-Wasl team on February 3.
Al-Nassr was hit in penalties by the Emirates Al Ain team in the quarter-finals last season in the first experience of the competition’s Ronaldo.
Won 2007/08 Champions League In Europe with Manchester United and reiterated the feat four times between 2014 and 2018 with Real Madrid.
Al-NASSR hosts a sixth placed al-Shabab on Friday (7pm GMT) on their domestic top flight.
