Al Hilal draws with Olympic goal from Rúben Neves and jesus can..

Despite Rúben Neves’ goal, Al Hilal let three points slip away after drawing 2-2 against Al Qadisiya and could see Jorge Jesus’ team, featuring Cristiano Ronaldo and João Félix, close the gap on the leaders. Bruno Varela and Fábio Martins were thrashed 4-0 in the defeat against Al Shabab.

In the 19th round of the Saudi league, Al Hilal wanted to return to winning ways after a draw against Al Riyadh. Rúben Neves opened the scoring in the eighth minute with a direct corner kick.

However, the team managed by Simone Inzaghi conceded an equalizer two minutes later. In the second half, the home side even took the lead with a goal from Julian Quinones in the 78th minute, but failed to secure the three points because, in the 90th minute, Salem Al Dawsari leveled the score, scoring his sixth goal of the season.

With this draw, Al Nassr, featuring Portuguese players Jorge Jesus, Cristiano Ronaldo, and João Félix, can take advantage of the slip=up by the league leaders and, in case of victory in the game scheduled for Saturday , move closer to the top of the table. It should be noted that Al Hilal has 46 points and remains in first place despite the result.

In other results, Al Hazem, the team of Fábio Martins and Bruno Varela, suffered a heavy defeat against Al Shabab by 4-0. Carlos Junior, formerly of Rio Ave and Santa Clara, scored a hat-trick (51st, 65th and 89th minutes) and Josh Brownhill scored in the victory for the visiting team.

With this defeat, Al Hazem now occupies 12th place with 20 points. Al Shabab remains provisionally in 13th place with 16 points.