There is a relentless inevitability about Al Nassr this season. On Saturday evening at Al Awwal Park, Jorge Jesus’s side maintained their flawless start to the Saudi Pro League 2025/2026 campaign, dispatching a struggling Al Okhdood to make it ten wins from ten.
While the gulf in class between the league leaders and a side languishing in the relegation zone was evident from the opening whistle, the night belonged—as it so often does—to Cristiano Ronaldo.
Al Nassr’s dominance was total, suffocating an Al Okhdood side that has managed just a single victory all season.
The breakthrough arrived in the 31st minute, born from the chaos of a set-piece. After João Félix’s corner caused indecision in the visitors’ box, Ronaldo was the quickest to react to the rebound, clinical as ever to fire home the opener.
The Portuguese captain didn’t have to wait long for his second. Just 15 minutes later, Marcelo Brozović—the orchestrator of Al Nassr’s midfield—carved open the defense with a signature pass. Ronaldo, ghosting into space inside the area, applied the finishing touch to double the advantage before the interval.
Ronaldo briefly thought he had secured the match ball after the restart, but a VAR intervention dampened the celebrations. His third effort was chalked off after the review spotted an offside in the buildup.
As the game drifted into stoppage time, Al Nassr added the exclamation point their performance deserved. João Félix, who had been a constant creative menace throughout the evening, found his own reward in injury time.
The Race for 1,000
For Ronaldo, the brace takes his league tally to 12 for the season, further cementing his position at the summit of the Golden Boot race.
Beyond the immediate hunt for the Saudi Pro League title, every goal now serves a grander narrative: the quest for 1,000 career goals. Saturday’s double brings his official tally to 956, a figure that continues to defy the typical constraints of age.
The victory was as much about the table as it was about the individual. Twenty-four hours earlier, Al Hilal had applied significant pressure with a hard-fought 3-2 win over Al Khaleej, momentarily narrowing Al Nassr’s lead to a single point.
However, with this clinical display in Riyadh, Al Nassr have restored their four-point cushion at the top. Ten games in, the title race is beginning to look like a test of who can blink first in the face of Al Nassr’s unwavering consistency.
