Al Wehda 1-3 Al Nassr: 7-game winning run! Ronaldo, Telles & co score

Al-Nassr continue to trail Al-Hilal as a 3-1 win over Al-Wehda moved them to within four points of the unassailable Saudi Pro League leaders.

Match Events

0' The match is about to start!

9' Talisca's shot too straight

11' GOAL! Al Wehda 0-1 Al Nassr FC (Alex Telles)

20' Mane's powerful header stopped by goalkeeper!

28' Ronaldo's shot stopped by goalkeeper

39' GOAL! Al Wehda 0-2 Al Nassr FC (Abdulelah Al-Amri)

45' CLOSE! Ronaldo’s shot wide out

49' GOAL! Al Wehda 0-3 Al Nassr FC (Ronaldo)

62' Disallowed! Talisca scores but the goal is offside

67' CLOSE! Mane's shot stopped by goalkeeper

76' Powerful shot from Mane!

78' OFF THE POST!

81' GOAL! Al Wehda 1-3 Al Nassr FC (Anselmo)

Match Report

Telles broke the deadlock with a free-kick that looked to have Cristiano Ronaldo's signature on it.

On the verge of the break, Al-Amri was imperially imposing himself on Al-Wehda's defense to seal the win.

The second half saw Cristiano Ronaldo add to his tally, which now stands at 13 goals in 12 league games.

Anselmo was in charge of making up the score and VAR disallowed two Al-Nassr goals, one by Talisca and the other by Ghareeb, who came on in the second half.

The match started with more initiative from Al-Wehda as Noor was a torment on the right and his speed was wreaking havoc, but this promising start was a mirage.

After 11 minutes, Telles scored a wonderful free-kick that left everyone, including Munir, in disarray.

Al-Wehda, who had several well-known players such as Munir, Faycal Fajr, Ighalo and El Yamiq, had to swim against the tide.

The Moroccan center-back, formerly of Valladolid, had the first of Al-Wehda's first, who responded to another header from Mane.

Cristiano also wanted to join the party with a free kick that this time was not 'stolen' by Telles.

As the minutes ticked by, Brozovic put a precise cross to the far post for Al-Amri to beat Bakshween and make it 0-2.

It took Cristiano Ronaldo four minutes of the second half to score after a mistake by the Al-Wehda defense that the Portuguese did not waste.

Talisca made it 0-4 but it was disallowed by the VAR after a long review for positional offside of the Portuguese star.

Mane also wanted his share of the cake but ran into Munir, the best of his team, and the Senegalese had a discreet game, as did Otavio, the latest star to join the Al-Nassr constellation.

Al Wehda brought danger to Nawaf's goal for the first time in the 74th minute, speaking volumes about how placid the second half was for the team coached by Luis Castro.

Al-Wehda deserved their goal, not because of what they did in the second half, but because they never gave up despite the difference between the two teams.

And after 80 minutes, they got their reward as a free kick with no apparent danger was nodded on by Duarte and Anselmo de Moraes scored an irrelevant goal that allowed his fans to celebrate a goal.

In the last play of the match, VAR prevented Ghareeb, who came on in the second half and left a very good impression, from scoring.

Al-Nassr follows in the wake of Al-Hilal and a tremendous battle will take place on December 1 when Cristiano Ronaldo's team will face the leaders.

Line-ups

Al Wehda XI: Ighalo, Duarte, F.Fajr, Waleed Bakshween, Anselmo, Munir, Craig Goodwin, Saeed Al-Mowalad, El Yamiq, Islam Hawsawi, Abdulaziz Noor

Subs: Abdullah Al-Hafith, Vito van Crooij, Abdulelah Al-Bukhari, Ala'a Al-Hajji, Yousef Al-Harbi, Abdulqaddous Attieh, Yahya Naji, Hazzaa Al-Ghamdi, Hussain Al-Eisa

Al Nassr FC XI: Ronaldo, Alex Telles, Brozovic, Mohammed Al-Fatil, Mane, Otávio, Talisca, Sultan Al-Ghannam, Sami Al-Najei, Abdulelah Al-Amri, Nawaf Al-Aqidi

Subs: S.Fofana, Abdullah Madu, Mohammed Qasem, Abdulmajeed Al-Sulayhim, Ali Lajami, Raghed Al-Najjar, Abdulrahman Ghareeb, Ali Al-Hassan, Khalid Al-Ghannam