Cristiano Ronaldo did not do the return trip of around 2,200 miles, since al-Nassr was held in the first use of her AFC Champions League round of 16 ties from Esteghlal in the Iranian national stadium in the nation stadium.
Five time balloon d’Or winner Ronaldo Hours before the kick-off, the support for his team on his Instagram account was the most followed on the platform and told them: “Let’s go”.
Al-Nassr went closest to the first half of the Azadi Stadium in the first half in the first half in which Ramin Rezaeian Ayman Yahya’s header led the line from the line after Iranian goalkeeper Hossein Hosseini Jhon Duran’s shot ended with his legs.
A night that Al Nassr forgot in the attack, but one that can be remembered by Esteghlal’s defense! #Aclelite | #Estwnsr pic.twitter.com/rf7rnfbsar
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Duran – A January in January of 65 million pounds of Aston Villa – sent a low finish against a post and had turned back shots from Hosseini twice when the striker Colombia was a third game without a goal for his new club.
The second leg will take place on March 10 (6 p.m. GMT) in Riad.
Why didn’t Ronaldo play for Al Nassr in Iran?
Al-Nassr wrote to the organizers who ask the game to play “on neutral soil” due to the “bad experience of Ronaldo in Tehran”, said the dpa news agency via Mailonline.
According to reports, the police had to dispel crowds that the Hotel of Al Nasr bully when they visited the Tehran Club Persepolis in September 2023.
Ronaldo was not involved when Al-Nassr in the Azadi Stadium against Persepolis moved 0-0, who also used the ground on February 17, even though his team had already qualified for the last 16 at that time.
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The Portuguese captain Official YouTube channelThe Riyadh Premier Padel finale streamed during this game that almost 74 million subscribers.
The two-time African footballer of the year Mane was an unused substitute in Persepolis and not in the matchday of the 2-1 defeat by Al-Nassr on Friday in Al-Orobah.
Is Ghlal against al-wet
Al-wet manager Stefano Pioli made four changes and brought Sadio Mane for Ronaldo, the full-back Nawaf Boushal for Majed Qashish and Wingers Awad Ali al-Hassan and Ayman Yahya for Abdulmajeed al-Sulayhem and Wesley Teixa.
The hosts issued a five-man defense and had 29% of the property in the first half, but the new national national team of Mohammad Reza Azadi tested Al-Wet Rorkehüter Bento with a blasted drive.
Esteghlal had the first chance of the second half when Armin Sohrabian drove in space and marked a bright restart after the Kyrgyz striker Joel Kojo came to Azadi half -time.
SOHRABIAN became a golden opportunity to create a golden opportunity shortly afterwards, and found Rezaeian in front of the gate with a crossroads from the left that his participation with another wing-back could only nod the wrong side of a post.
Esteghlal: Kojo threatens the winner
Al-Nassr defeated Esteghlal 1-0 against the former defender of Manchester City Aymeric Laporte in Dubai during the group stage on October 22nd.
Esteghlal was administered by the former Crvena Zvezda boss Miodrag Bozovic and won the AFC Champions League in 1970 and 1991.
The oldest professional team in Tehran has won the Persian Gulf Pro League nine times, but is currently ninth of 16 clubs in the division after only winning six of their first 21 league games of the season.
After Esteghlal lost to Persepolis on Thursday, he kept himself more than against Al-Wetr and came close to a deceased winner when Kojo narrowly spread.
Cristiano Ronaldo Tore
Ronaldo has collected himself in his last four league games, but is still the top scorer in the Saudi Pro League with 17 goals, followed by Karim Benzema by Al -ittihad on 16.
The 40-year-old achieved the price of the week of the week before Al-Nassr played at Al Orobah, but the evening ended in misery for Real Madrid’s all-time top scorer as a fourth-placed AL-NASSR points for the ninth time in 23 league games, including a disturbing Ronaldo-Miss, when the Scoreline was 1-1.
With eleven league games in the campaign, Al-Nassr are 10 points behind the leaders Al-Ortihad, four shy of second-placed champions Al-Hilal and three abdicted Al-Qadsiah.
Ronaldo Champions League statistics
Ronaldo scored six goals in the AFC Champions League this season, since the 40-year-old has been added to his individual prophea since he came to Al-Nassr at the beginning of 2023 and won the Arab Club Champions Cup this year.
Four of these goals came in competition in his last three appearances and, on November 25th, scored the Emirati team Al-Wasl on November 25th and at home on February 3 on November 25th and at home.
Al-Nassr was eliminated in the quarter-finals last season in Ronaldo’s first experience with the competition for punishments by Emirati team Al Ain.
He won the 2007/08 Champions League In Europe with Manchester United and repeated the feat between 2014 and 2018 with Real Madrid four times.
Al-Nassr is the sixth al-shabab on Friday (7 p.m. GMT) in her top flight.
