{"id":481700,"date":"2024-04-09T08:17:25","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T12:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=481700"},"modified":"2024-04-09T08:17:25","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T12:17:25","slug":"cristiano-ronaldo-sees-red-in-al-nassr-cup-semi-final-defeat","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/cristiano-ronaldo-sees-red-in-al-nassr-cup-semi-final-defeat\/","title":{"rendered":"Cristiano Ronaldo sees red in Al-Nassr cup semi-final defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a shocking turn of events, Al-Nassr superstar Cristiano Ronaldo received a red card for elbowing an opponent during his team&#8217;s 2-1 defeat against Al-Hilal in the Saudi Super Cup semi-final.<\/p>\n<p>The 39-year-old Ronaldo was sent off in the 86th minute after apparently swinging his elbow into the chest of Ali Al Bulayhi, who fell to the ground as a result.<\/p>\n<p>Following the incident, the Portugal international was seen gesturing towards the referee before exiting the field. This is Ronaldo&#8217;s first red card since joining Al-Nassr in December 2022.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Ronaldo got a straight red for this elbow<\/p>\n<p>He wasn&#8217;t happy with the ref \ud83d\ude2c<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FOXDeportes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@FOXDeportes<\/a>)<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MppTBzv8p6\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/MppTBzv8p6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 B\/R Football (@brfootball) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brfootball\/status\/1777454598057243119?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 8, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>At the time of his dismissal, Al-Nassr was trailing 2-0, with goals from Salem Al-Dawsari and Malcom, although former Liverpool forward Sadio Mane managed to pull one back in stoppage time.<\/p>\n<p>Three-time champions Al-Hilal are now set to face Al-Ittihad in the final on Thursday. Earlier on Monday, Al-Ittihad secured their spot in the final by defeating Al-Wehda 2-1, with goals from former Real Madrid captain Karim Benzema and Morocco forward Abderrazak Hamdallah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a shocking turn of events, Al-Nassr superstar Cristiano Ronaldo received a red card for elbowing an opponent during his team&#8217;s 2-1 defeat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":481701,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18098,16904],"news_category":[14235,14084],"gn_keywords":[18099,17961],"acf":{"announce":"Al-Hilal eliminated Ronaldo's team and will face Al-Ittihad in the final on Thursday","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/481700"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/481700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":481702,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/481700\/revisions\/481702"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481700"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=481700"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=481700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}