After Cristiano Ronaldo, a five-time winner of the Ballon d’Or, scored four goals in one game last week, Al-Nassr manager Rudi Garcia thinks his team’s players have finally found out how to play with him.
Ronaldo, 38, started his career in the Middle East with a disappointing performance after joining the Saudi Pro League team in December. He travelled back in time, though, and scored all four goals for Al-Nassr in their emphatic victory over Al-Wehda last week.
In reaction to their new star attacker, who had only scored once in his first three competitive games for the squad before his goal-rain last week, Garcia had just a fortnight earlier instructed the rest of his side to “play normally.”
But in light of Ronaldo’s incredible four-goal performance, Garcia is now persuaded that Ronaldo and the rest of the Al-Nassr team are now enjoying a better understanding.
The Al-Nassr manager said: “Ronaldo has reached a great stage of homogeneity and harmony with his teammates. Over time, his teammates realized what he wanted and when he will score. I think it was a good night for Cristiano Ronaldo because he scored four goals.”
With an astounding 503 league goal, Ronaldo has already eclipsed his most recent record thanks to his excellent performance against Al-Wehda.
After Al-Nassr’s convincing victory over Al-Wehda, Garcia’s squad currently leads the Saudi Pro League ahead of Al-Ittihad on goal differential.
Ronaldo, a former Manchester United favorite who accepted a lucrative contract worth approximately £172 million annually to move to the Middle East, is trying to help Al-Nassr in winning their first league title since 2019.
