Al Hilal Saudi Arabia achieved a broad victory over its guest, Esteghlal Tehran, Iran, with three unanswered goals, in the match of the fourth round of the AFC Champions League for the Elite, on Monday evening, to continue topping the Gharb Group standings table with the full mark (12 points).

Al-Hilal won the first half in its favor with two clean goals scored by Serbian international scorer Aleksandar Mitrovic in the 15th and 33rd minutes after receiving two decisive passes from Nasser Al-Dosari and Renan Lodi.

At the beginning of the second half, Al Hilal’s technical director, Georgie Jesus, brought in Brazilian striker Neymar da Silva instead of Saudi Abdullah Al-Hamdan, in the 57th minute, and he also brought in Muhammad Kanno instead of Nasser Al-Dosari on the circle line.

The star of the match, Alexander Mitrovic, was able to score the third personal goal for himself and Al Hilal (a hat-trick) in the 74th minute, assisted by the Portuguese Joao Cancelo.

The Brazilian player Neymar participated in the 56th minute for the first time since his injury about a year ago, as a substitute against Iranian Esteghlal. He was injured in the 85th minute and left the green rectangle.

With this broad result, the Saudi League champion honored the delegation of South African coach Pitso Mosimane, the former coach of Al-Ahly Jeddah club, a few days after he took over as coach of Esteghlal Tehran, which is looking to correct its continental path after two successive losses to Al-Sadd of Qatar and Al-Nassr of Saudi Arabia in the past two rounds.< /p>

Istiqlal Tehran's chances will decline even further in the struggle for the top 8 places qualifying for the AFC Champions League knockout round due to 3 consecutive losses, especially if Al Ain or Pakhtakor wins at the end of the fourth round tomorrow, Tuesday.

It is worth noting that Al Hilal has defeated Esteghlal Tehran 5 times in the AFC Champions League since 2003 until now, while Esteghlal has won 4 times, and no match between the two teams has ended in a draw.