Al Hilal picked up a valuable victory over their hosts, Al Ittihad, and delivered their first league defeat of the season at King Abdullah Sports City Stadium in Jeddah with over 53,000 spectators in attendance. and gave the ball to the located Odin Ighalo to sneak the ball into the goal as the first goal of the match. After this goal, Al-Hilal took advantage of Al-Ittihad’s neglect in the center of the field and took over most of this half, and in the course of 30 minutes Al-Hilal was in control of the situation and there were no serious attacks.
And in the 31st minute, Tarik Hamed received the first yellow card of the match, and with the approach of the first half, Abdul Razzak Hamdalla almost equalized the score, but his ball was far from the goal. With the beginning of the second half, none of the coaches made any substitutions, with the relative possession of Al-Ittihad, he began to put pressure, but without significant danger to Abdullah Al-Mayuf.
A quarter of an hour into the second half, Nuno Santo replaced Abdul Rahman Al-Aboud to replace Helder Costa, while Ramon Diaz also replaced Nasser Al-Dosari to replace Hamad Al-Yami.
The match began to take a new turn as more than one Hilal player received yellow cards and in the 75th minute Nuno Santo made several substitutions, removing Abdulaziz Al-Bishi and Zakaria Havsavi and introducing Mohammed Al-Sairi and Hamdan Al. -Shamrani Losing a ten-man add-on in which Orsato timed the same time as the first half, 7 minutes. with 25 points, with the same number of points as Al-Shabab in second place, with a goal difference from him, and Al-Ittihad fell back to fourth place with 24 points.
