Cristiano Ronaldo misses late penalty as Al-Nassr eradicated from Saudi Cup

File image of Cristiano Ronaldo with Al-Nassr
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Cristiano Ronaldo missed a stoppage-time penalty and Al-Nassr was eradicated from the King’s Cup in a 1-0 loss to Al-Taawoun.

The five-time Ballon D’Or winner has but to win a serious trophy since signing for the membership virtually two years in the past.

Enjoying on the round-of-16 stage of Saudi Arabia’s premier knockout competitors, Al-Taawoun took the lead on Waleed Al-Ahmad’s header with 20 minutes remaining. Al-Ahmad was then whistled for a foul within the space within the ninety fifth minute.

Ronaldo had transformed all 18 of his earlier penalties for Al-Nassr however this time shot over the bar to the shock of the house crowd of 14,519.

The defeat is the primary for Stefano Pioli for the reason that Italian succeeded Luis Castro as head coach in September.

Ronaldo and Al-Nassr nonetheless have two possibilities at silverware this season however are already six factors behind chief Al-Hilal after eight video games of the Saudi Professional League and have seven factors from three video games within the group stage of the Asian Champions League.

“Technically we carried out effectively however we could not win the sport,” Pioli stated. “We really feel disenchanted to be out of the cup. However we nonetheless have two trophies to go for and we’ll give our greatest in them.”