Al Hilal team won a title Saudi King’s Cup For the second time in a row, and the 11th in its history, it defeated its rival Al-Nassr on penalties, 5-4, yesterday, Friday, at the “Radiant Jewel” Stadium in Jeddah, in the final of the competition that witnessed the crying of Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo.
Al Hilal had retained the title it won last season, also on penalties, at the expense of Al Wahda.
Al Hilal wins the Saudi King’s Cup
The original time of the match between Al-Hilal and Al-Nasr ended in a 1-1 draw, so the two teams resorted to two additional halves without anything new, before resorting to penalty kicks, which Al-Zaeem decided in his favor, thanks to the brilliance of his Moroccan goalkeeper. Yassin BonoBy saving two penalty kicks.
With this coronation, Al Hilal imposed its control over the local titles by winning the treble, after adding the King’s Cup to the league and super titles, ending the 2023-2024 season with full marks.
The match was characterized by intensity and intensity, and Serbian Alexander Mitrovic opened the scoring early for Al Hilal, in the seventh minute of the start of the first half, with a wonderful header, before Ayman Yahya equalized with a similar header in the 88th minute.
The Portuguese Ruben Nevesh and Saud Abdel Hamid missed from Al Hilal in the penalty shootout, while the Brazilian Alex Telles, Ali Al Hassan and Mishari Al Nemr missed from Al Nassr.
The match witnessed three red cards after Ali Al-Bulaihi and Senegalese Kalidou Koulibaly, the Al Hilal duo, were sent off in the 87th and 90th minutes, and Colombian David Ospina, Al-Nasr’s goalkeeper, was sent off for a handball outside the penalty area in the 56th minute.
Ronaldo is crying bitterly
During the penalty shootout, Portuguese star Cristiano Ronaldo, a player for the Al-Nasr team, was seen looking worried when his teammates executed some of the kicks.
Following his team’s defeat against Al Hilal, Ronaldo broke down in tears, while Brazilian star Neymar da Silva, a player for Al Hilal, was seen feeling overwhelming joy after announcing that his team had won the title.
Camera footage showed Ronaldo collapsing in the middle of the field and crying bitterly, after Bono blocked a decisive kick from Mishari Al-Nemr, giving the title to Al Hilal and depriving the Madeira Rocket of winning its first local title.
Ronaldo, the Al-Alamy team player, who achieved a record BScoring 35 goals As the player who scored the most goals in one season in the Saudi League, in revenge against Al-Hilal, which fell again in the cup final.
