A catastrophic mistake takes Al-Nasr to the eighth place in the Saudi King’s Cup final
Al-Nasr qualified for the eighth-final stage of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Cup “King’s Cup” with a catastrophic mistake.
Al-Nasr visited Al-Hazm in the 32nd round of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Cup, on Monday evening.
Al-Nasr won over its host Al-Hazm with a score of 2-1 in the final time, passing Al-Alamy to the second round of the competition.
Al-Nasr opened the scoring in stoppage time of the first half with a header from Senegalese Sadio Mane, before Al-Hazm managed to equalize through Basil Al-Siyali in the 62nd minute of the match.
The match was going to go into extra time lasting half an hour, divided equally into two halves in order to settle matters.
A side of the match between Al-Nasr and Al-Hazm
But in the last moments, Al-Nasr managed to score the qualifying goal through Nawaf Bushel in the second minute of stoppage time.
The goal came after a disastrous defensive error by Jorian Jari, the Al-Hazm player, who passed the ball with his head to the Al-Nasr player while the goalkeeper was out of his goal, and Bushel easily placed it into the empty goal.
Al-Nasr fought under the leadership of its new Italian coach; Stefano Pioli, Al-Hazm match amid the absence of the team captain; Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo, in order to give him some rest.
