Al-Hazm imposed a fatal 4-4 draw on its host, Al-Nasr, on Thursday evening, in the 22nd round of the Saudi Professional League.

The Al-Nasr quadruple included a hat-trick by Talisca in the 31st, 61st and 71st minutes, and by Sadio Mane in the 90th + 4th minute.

As for Al-Hazm’s goals, they were scored by Ahmed Muhaimid, Tozi, Fayez Soleimani and Paulo Ricardo in the 53rd, 66th, 84th and (90+9) minutes.

Al-Nasr’s score rose to 53 points in second place, compared to 15 points for Al-Hazm in penultimate place.

Al-Hilal, the leader, has an important opportunity to expand the gap with Al-Nasr, when it faces Al-Ittihad Jeddah, tomorrow, Friday.

The match began with an exchange of the ball between the players of the two teams, before Al-Nasr increased the playing pattern with forward pressure in the seventh minute, which resulted in a dangerous header by the Brazilian player Talisca, but it went over the goal.

Portuguese manager Luis Castro resorted to maneuvering, assembling the game in the middle of the field, looking for an offensive opening, then pounced, taking advantage of the speed of his players, which is what happened with a brace by Talisca and Kheiberi in the 23rd minute, then obtaining a penalty kick in the 30th minute, which Talisca converted into the net with good execution. In the 32nd minute.

Al-Nasr did not back down after the lead goal and continued its offensive appearance with multiple attempts, especially shooting from outside the penalty area, most notably Brozovic’s ball in the 44th minute.

Al-Hazm waited until the match referee announced stoppage time to announce himself offensively, through Azzam Al-Salman’s shot that went over the goal.

Second half

The second half started with strength and an attacking momentum by Al-Alamy, which resulted in a second goal by Talisca, but it was canceled due to a foul on Sami Al-Naji.

Al-Hazm's attempts during the first seven minutes of the second half were characterized by an inability to create a threat despite the many increases, until the equalizing goal came in the 53rd minute from a corner kick executed in a distinctive way and found the head of Ahmed Al Muhaimid.

Al-Nasr did not give its rival the opportunity to organize its ranks and change the philosophy to defensive closure by scoring the lead goal again from Talisca after a wonderful work with Otavio in the 61st minute.

Al-Nasr attacked unjustifiably in an opportunity to kill the match, but with great recklessness, which resulted in a quick and lightning counter for the visitors in the 66th minute, which resulted in the equalizer through Tozzi’s feet.

The character of open play and the abandonment of defensive caution dominated the last half hour of the match, and Talisca appeared again with a third goal in the 71st minute.

Al-Hazm was close to snatching a tie again with Suleiman’s dangerous header in the 80th minute, but it went wide of the goal.

Otavio came close to killing the match in the 82nd minute with a wonderful double overhead, but it collided with the Al-Hazm defender and ended up in the goalkeeper's hand.

Soleimani returned to snatch the equalizer in the 84th minute with a wonderful shot that went into Walid Abdullah’s goal.

Castro threw all his offensive cards during the final minutes to get a penalty kick after Ayman Dahman interfered with Mishari Al-Nimr, and Sadio Mane executed the penalty kick in a distinctive way into the net, announcing the fourth goal.

Professional Paulo Ricardo killed the hosts with an equalizer in the 99th minute.