In the early morning of March 12 (Vietnam time), Al-Nassr welcomed Al-Ain in the second leg of the quarter-finals of the 2023-2024 AFC Champions League. Losing by 1 goal after the first leg in the UAE is not too big for Cristiano Ronaldo and his teammates to come back.
Although playing at home, it seems that the haste has caused Al-Nassr to lack the game situation and the ability to finish as desired.
In contrast, the visitors only needed six shots in the first half to score twice in the 28th and 45th minutes.
2 more goals came for the home team to equalize the score 3-3, before each team scored 1 more goal in extra time to make the final score 4-4.
On the penalty spot, Al-Nassr had only Ronaldo successfully implement, while Marcelo Brozovic, Alex Telles and Otavio all missed. All 3 Al-Ain players played successfully to make the score on the penalty spot 3-1.
Many times he criticized Ronaldo's teammates for playing so badly on penalties, however, CR7 also had to blame himself for missing an opportunity in a very unbelievable way.
If it were a goal, Al-Nassr's situation would have been different.
That was the 61st minute, the score was 2-2, in an attack on the right wing, the ball was passed, an Al-Nassr player shot, goalkeeper Khalid Eisa dropped the ball to block, the ball reached Ronaldo's feet at a distance of only about 3m from the goal and was completely empty.
However, the superstar who won the Ballon d'Or 5 times did not tap the ball into the goal. The 39-year-old Portuguese striker hugged his head with a shocked expression. He was shocked by that unbelievable miss.
Ronaldo became a topic of discussion on social media afterwards.
On page X, an account commented: "It's not a joke, this is one of the worst missed I've ever seen in my life."
Another commented: "Maybe this is the worst CR7 miss I can remember".
Or as another person exclaimed: "Even GOAT misses opportunities like this".
With the loss on penalties, Al-Nassr was eliminated from the AFC Champions League. After the match, Ronaldo shook hands to apologize to the home team's fans.
Currently, they are also 12 points behind Al-Hilal in the Saudi Pro League after 23 rounds, Ronaldo and his teammates now only have hope for the King's Cup (reached the semi-finals) and the Super Cup (against Al-Hilal) in the hope of not having a season without a trophy.
