{"id":1559,"date":"2025-11-24T01:34:44","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T01:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/?p=1559"},"modified":"2025-11-24T01:34:49","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T01:34:49","slug":"stunning-ronaldo-bicycle-kick-caps-off-al-nassr-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/stunning-ronaldo-bicycle-kick-caps-off-al-nassr-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Stunning Ronaldo bicycle kick caps off Al-Nassr victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Al-Nassr maintained their perfect start to the Roshn Saudi League season with a commanding 4-1 win over Al-Khaleej on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The league leaders were already cruising at Al-Awwal Park through goals from Joao Felix, Wesley and Sadio Mane before Cristiano Ronaldo delivered the moment of the night in stoppage time.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vVnNy656nPY?si=_C_VnMew1PRPdROi\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The 40-year-old produced a stunning bicycle kick, reminiscent of his iconic strike against Juventus in the UEFA Champions League, to seal the victory and ignite the Riyadh crowd.<\/p>\n<p>Their ninth consecutive win put them four points clear of closest challengers Al-Hilal, who triumphed over Al-Fateh despite being down to 10 men thanks to Darwin Nunez and Ruben Neves.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DF504Uesa_U?si=toifw2DXYpZ2sU71\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Al-Taawoun, who began the weekend in second place, slipped to third after being held 1-1 by Neon in a dramatic match where both goals came deep into stoppage time.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, defending champions Al-Ittihad finally halted their poor run of league form with a 2-1 win over Al-Riyadh.<\/p>\n<p>However, Karim Benzema and company remain 13 points adrift of Al-Nassr at the summit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Al-Nassr maintained their perfect start to the Roshn Saudi League season with a commanding 4-1 win over Al-Khaleej on Sunday. The league leaders were already cruising at Al-Awwal Park through goals from Joao Felix, Wesley and Sadio Mane before Cristiano Ronaldo delivered the moment of the night in stoppage time. The 40-year-old produced a stunning &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/stunning-ronaldo-bicycle-kick-caps-off-al-nassr-victory\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Stunning Ronaldo bicycle kick caps off Al-Nassr victory<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[284,218,127,282],"class_list":["post-1559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-stories","tag-al-nassr-fc","tag-cristiano-ronaldo","tag-football","tag-roshn-saudi-league"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1564,"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559\/revisions\/1564"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}