On Thursday night, Cristiano Ronaldo scored four goals in his first masterful performance while wearing the Al-Nassr jersey with a video of the Al Wehda goalkeeper viral
The former Manchester United forward had a very slow start to life in Saudi Arabia by his own high standards, but he took off at Al-Wehda. Al-Nassr moved back to the top of the Saudi Professional League standings with a convincing 4-0 victory thanks to Ronaldo’s four goals.
In the first half, the 38-year-old legend scored twice through open play before completing his hat trick from the penalty spot right after the break. Due to Al-Wehda’s very bad defending, Ronaldo scored his fourth goal of the game in the 61st minute of play.
Abdulquddus Atiah, the goalie for the home team, wasn’t exactly a model of excellence during the game, but that doesn’t take anything away from Ronaldo.
Al-Wehda FC goalkeeper Abdulquddus Atiahtime time wasting technique video goes viral
Ronaldo scored four goals against Al-Wehda for Al-Nassr.
All four of Ronaldo's goals for Al Nassr today 🤩 pic.twitter.com/xqSgJ8XTSj
— ESPN FC (@ESPNFC) February 9, 2023
Who is Abdulquddus Atiah of Al-Wehda?
Although Abdulquddus Atiah did play on one occasion for the Saudi national team in 2017, he is undoubtedly not a football player that the majority of casual fans will be familiar with. In 2018, the 25-year-old signed a four-year contract and joined Al-Wehda. He played on loan at Al-Adalah during the 2020–21 campaign, where playing time was quite easy to come by.
Of course, Atiah is back at Al-Wehda, where we think he previously created one of the funniest time wasters you will ever see in the game, Sunday League included. In 2022, a video of the incident was posted on a Twitter account for “Out of content Saudi football,” and it is seriously excellent.
— out of context saudi football🇸🇦 (@1ksafootball) April 23, 2022
Additionally, in the 53rd minute of action! The striker for the opposing squad didn’t seem too happy, which is absolutely understandable. On Thursday, the video was also posted on Reddit, where some of the fan feedback was just stunning. Well, he didn’t do such act when he went up against Ronaldo, but that time-wasting deserves to be shown for some fun of football.
However, Ronaldo will now be looking to add more goals to his goal total next Friday after successfully netting the ball past four times for the 11th time in his career.