33 are better. The unbeatable Al-Hilal They beat Cristiano Ronaldo’s Al-Nassr 2 to 1, who was sent off on the hour, achieved their thirty-third consecutive victory and advanced to the final of the Saudi Arabia Super Cup, where they will face the Al-Ittihad by Marcelo Gallardo and Karim Benzema, who eliminated Al-Wehda in the other semi.
CR7 did not finish the Saudi classic on the field. EFE
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After an even first half, in which the giants of the Arab country did not differentiate themselves, Salem Al-Dawsari, with a great finish (61′), and Malcom, with a header (72′), They gave the lead to Jorge Jesus’ team against Luís Castro’s team.
But the most resonant situation of the game occurred at 85 minuteswhen nervousness took over the yellow cast. CR7 wanted to take a side quickly, struggled with Saud Abdulhamid and threw him to the ground, which led to the judge showing him the red card. Hot with the referee’s ruling, Ronaldo outlined what seemed to be a kind of threat of a blow (will there be a harsh sanction?) and left the field disapproving of the decision with controversial gestures and ironic applause. It is the twelfth expulsion of his career.
Despite the numerical inferiority, Sadio Mané scored in the 99th minutewhen the added time ended, and the result was not modified again.
In the championship, Al-Hilal has 77 points in 27 dates, the product of 25 wins and 2 draws, followed by Al-Nassr, who accumulates 65 points (21 successes, 2 draws and 4 losses). But the blues, who now have three wins in a row against their eternal rival, are also still in the race at the continental level: they will face Al-Ain, executioner of Al-Nassr, in the semi-final of the AFC Champions League.
To reach that stage, the team that has injured Neymar Jr eliminated Al-Ittihad by an aggregate of 4 to 0, a few days after also winning the domestic tournament match.
Total, Al-Hilal has a historical record of 33 victories in a rowafter surpassing the 27 wins of The New Saints of Wales in 2016.
The final, where Marcelo Gallardo and Jorge Jesus will meet again in a definition, after the CONMEBOL Libertadores 2019 that Flamengo agonizingly came back from River Plate, will take place on Thursday at the Mohammed bin Zayed Stadium, where this Monday Al-Hilal achieved a classic triumph.
