{"id":508278,"date":"2026-02-11T12:30:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T16:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=508278"},"modified":"2026-02-11T12:30:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T16:30:20","slug":"al-nassr-beat-arkadag-1-0-without-cristiano-again-in-the-afc","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/al-nassr-beat-arkadag-1-0-without-cristiano-again-in-the-afc\/","title":{"rendered":"Al-Nassr beat Arkadag 1-0 without Cristiano again in the AFC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Al-Nassr defeated the Turkmenistan side Arkadag 1-0 in the 1<sup>st<\/sup> leg of their AFC Champions League 2, 1\/8 finals tie, as they triumphed without Cristiano Ronaldo. The superstar is set to return after missing the last 3 matches of his team, but even without Cristiano, the Saudi Arabian side took advantage before the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> leg at home as Abdullah Al-Hamdan scored the only goal in the clash.<\/p>\n<p>He netted in the 19<sup>th<\/sup> minute as Al-Nassr had a fantastic opportunity to double its lead in the 30<sup>th<\/sup> minute, but Angelo missed it.<\/p>\n<p>In the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> half, the Saudi Arabian team missed another 2 great chances to score, and now they will have only a 1-goal lead before the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> leg. However, the expectations are that Cristiano Ronaldo will be on the pitch in the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> leg, as he is expected to play again during the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>There are a lot of rumors about the Portuguese superstar&#8217;s absence, as the latest news is that he chose not to play because Al-Nassr staff didn\u2019t receive their salaries, but now that\u2019s fixed, and he will return.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Man of the Match: AlHamdan \ud83c\udf1f<br \/>A performance full of heart and impact! \ud83d\udc4f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Qj2kov0w5r\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Qj2kov0w5r<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; AlNassr FC (@AlNassrFC_EN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlNassrFC_EN\/status\/2021613569721180193?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 11, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Al-Nassr defeated the Turkmenistan side Arkadag 1-0 in the 1st leg of their AFC Champions League 2, 1\/8 finals tie, as they triumphed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":508279,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18098,16904],"news_category":[14235],"gn_keywords":[18099,17961],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"The Saudi Arabian team won with its superstar Ronaldo.","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\/508278"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/508278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":508280,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/508278\/revisions\/508280"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508278"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=508278"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=508278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}