Cristiano Ronaldo fumes at his team-mates for ‘sleeping’ and storms down the tunnel WITHOUT accumulating his silver medal as Al-Nassr collapse to a 4-1 defeat within the Saudi Tremendous Cup remaining

Cristiano Ronaldo stormed out of the Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz Stadium with out accumulating his silver medal after his Al-Nassr aspect had been thrashed 4-1 in Saturday’s Saudi Tremendous Cup remaining.

The 39-year-old had been hoping to win his second trophy since shifting to Saudi Arabia in January 2023 – after final season’s triumph within the Arab Membership Champions Cup.

Ronaldo scored his first objective of the season in Wednesday’s 2-0 Tremendous Cup semi-final win over Al-Taawoun and located the online once more simply earlier than half-time to fireside Al-Nassr 1-0 up in Saturday’s remaining.

However Al-Hilal – who received the Saudi Professional League final season with out shedding a single sport – hit again with 4 second-half objectives, together with two by ex-Fulham hitman Aleksandar Mitrovic.

Captain Ronaldo was visibly unimpressed because the objectives continued to hit the online.

The 39-year-old scored the sport’s opening objective however his aspect misplaced 4-1 towards their Riyadh rivals

Ronaldo left the Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz Stadium with out accumulating his silver medal

Ronaldo gestured furiously at his team-mates after Al-Hilal scored 4 second-half objectives

In Ronaldo’s defence, Al-Hilal’s fourth objective was the results of some fairly terrible play by his team-mates.

After a dismal try at enjoying out from the again resulted in goalkeeper Bento shedding the ball to Malcom on the sting of the six-yard field, Ronaldo stood within the centre circle, put his arms collectively and gestured to his team-mates that that they had been ‘sleeping’.

After the sport, Al-Nassr’s gamers had been introduced with medals for coming second within the four-team event.

However former Actual Madrid and Man United star Ronaldo had no real interest in accumulating his, so he walked out of the stadium empty-handed.

Ronaldo’s time at Al-Nassr has been a blended bag to this point.

His scoring document may be very spectacular. He has now bagged 66 instances in 72 matches for the Riyadh outfit and he received final season’s Saudi Professional League Golden Boot.

Nevertheless, Al-Nassr completed 5 factors behind champions Al-Ittihad in Ronaldo’s first season – having topped the desk previous to his arrival – and so they then ended 14 factors under Al-Hilal within the 2023-24 marketing campaign.

Ronaldo mocked his Al-Nassr’s team-mates by gesturing that they had been ‘sleeping’ on the sphere

Ronaldo has additionally been pissed off by the reception he has obtained from rival followers throughout his time in Saudi Arabia.

Practically all of Al-Nassr’s away matches final season witnessed opposition supporters taunting Ronaldo by chanting the title of his nice rival Lionel Messi.

Saturday’s remaining, which was performed at a impartial venue, was no exception. 

Al-Nassr will start their newest Saudi Professional League marketing campaign on Thursday once they host Al-Raed.

Ronaldo and Co are additionally as a result of compete within the King Cup and Champions League Elite this season.

The extent of competitors in Saudi Arabia has elevated considerably since Ronaldo moved to the nation 19 months in the past.

A bunch of big-name gamers have adopted the Portuguese icon in swapping Europe for the Arab Gulf state, together with Neymar, Sadio Mane, Riyad Mahrez, Marcelo Brozovic and Aymeric Laporte.

Saudi Arabia’s Public Funding Fund – which owns Al-Nassr, Al-Hilal, Al-Ahli and Al-Ittihad, in addition to Newcastle United in England’s Premier League – has been behind many of the big-money strikes.

Since shifting to Saudi Arabia in January 2023, Ronaldo has hit 66 objectives in 72 Al-Nassr video games

However he has solely received one workforce trophy after being concerned in two failed Professional League title bids

It was lately reported that the PIF tried to strike a deal to tempt Vinicius Junior to depart Actual Madrid for Al-Ahli by proposing a five-year contract price €1 billion.

Nevertheless, Vinicius is claimed to have rebuffed the supply, which might have seen him successfully match Ronaldo’s annual Al-Nassr wage of round €200m.