Al-Nassr produced a crushing second-half show to beat Damac 4-1, with Cristiano Ronaldo scoring twice to lastly win the Saudi Professional League title.
After a comparatively uneventful first half, Al-Nassr pulled away after the break by objectives from Kingsley Coman and Ronaldo, regardless of Damac briefly threatening a comeback.
The hosts dominated a lot of the competition and at last broke the impasse within the thirty fourth minute. Joao Felix delivered an inviting cross following a nook and Sadio Mane rose highest to energy a header into the web for 1-0.
Al Nassr had already created a number of probabilities earlier than the opener. Ronaldo headed over from shut vary, Mane was denied by goalkeeper Kewin, whereas Felix and Coman each examined the Damac defence throughout a vigorous first half.
Hosts draw back in second half
The house aspect carried that momentum into the second interval and doubled their benefit seven minutes after the restart. Abdullah Al Khaibari fed Kingsley Coman outdoors the field and the French winger drilled a low left-footed effort into the underside nook to make it 2-0.
Damac have been handed a route again into the match shortly afterwards when VAR awarded a penalty for Mohamed Simakan’s handball inside the realm.
Morlaye Sylla transformed from the spot within the 58th minute, sending the goalkeeper the fallacious option to scale back the deficit to 2-1.
The Ronaldo present
However any hopes of a Damac comeback have been shortly extinguished by Ronaldo.
First, the Portuguese ahead restored Al-Nassr’s two-goal cushion with an excellent free-kick within the 63rd minute, bending a low strike into the bottom-right nook from simply outdoors the realm.
Ronaldo then added his second and Al-Nassr’s fourth within the 81st minute. After sensible attacking motion contained in the penalty space, he completed from shut vary to place the competition to mattress.
The outcome ends an extended look ahead to Ronaldo, who was lastly in a position to elevate his first league title in Saudi Arabia.
