Both goals were recorded as penalty kicks and continues to be the Saudi league scoring leader
Striker Cristiano Ronaldo, who plays for Saudi Arabian professional soccer team Al Nasr, scored multiple goals and became the league’s leading scorer as well as the top scorer in 2023.
Al Nasr achieved a 5-2 comeback win thanks to Ronaldo’s multiple goals in the 18th round of the ‘2023-2024 Saudi Arabian Pro League’ against Al Ittihad held at the Prince Abdullah Al Faisal Stadium in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on the 27th (Korean time).
With this win, second-place Al Nasr recorded 14 wins, 1 draw, and 3 losses (43 points), closely following leader Al Hilal (50 points).
The first goal belonged to the home team. Abderazak Hamdallah broke the balance of the game in the 14th minute of the first half.
However, Ronaldo tied the score again by scoring a penalty kick in the 19th minute of the first half.
Afterwards, Al Nasr took the lead with a comeback goal from Anderson Talisca in the 38th minute of the first half.
Ittihad did not fall easily. In the 6th minute of the second half, Hamdallah scored another goal, making it 2-2.
At this time, Ronaldo’s calm shined again. A penalty kick came again in the 23rd minute of the second half, shaking the opponent’s net.
Al Nasr, who took the lead with Ronaldo’s multiple goals, won 5-2 with Sadio Mane’s multiple goals in the 30th and 37th minutes of the second half.
Ronaldo scored his 18th and 19th goals on this day, continuing to lead the league in scoring.
There was a 3-goal gap with 2nd place Aleksandar Mitrovic (Al Hilal, 16 goals).
In addition, he was named the top scorer in 2023. Al Nasr Club said through social networking service (SNS), “Captain Ronaldo scored 53 goals in 2023 alone. “He surpassed Kylian Mbappe (Paris Saint-Germain) and Harry Kane (Bayern Munich), who scored 52 goals,” he explained.
He joined Al Nasr in January 2023, during the second half of the 2022-2023 season, and played a total of 58 games this year, including the first half of this season, and scored 53 goals (15 assists).
Unlike ‘competitors’ Mbappe and Kane, whose schedule ends in 2023, Ronaldo is also scheduled to attend Al Ta’a Nuclear Power Plant on the 31st. He could end the year with more goals than 53. 토토사이트