{"id":53105,"date":"2026-08-16T07:25:05","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T01:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=53105"},"modified":"2026-08-16T07:25:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T01:40:05","slug":"al-nassr-begin-saudi-pro-league-title-defense-with-comfortable-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/al-nassr-begin-saudi-pro-league-title-defense-with-comfortable-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Al Nassr begin Saudi Pro League title defense with comfortable win"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><strong>Agency, Aug 16:<\/strong> Defending champions Al Nassr have made a winning start to their Saudi Pro League title defense, defeating Al Fateh 3\u20130 in their opening match on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>At Al-Awwal Park, Al Nassr took the lead in the 37th minute through Angelo, who headed home from Salim Al-Najdi\u2019s cross.<\/p>\n<p>The hosts doubled their advantage just three minutes later when Jo\u00e3o F\u00e9lix produced a fine finish following a pass from Sadio Man\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p>Al Nassr continued to dominate after the break and added a third goal in the 73rd minute. Samu completed the scoring after converting Abdullah\u2019s pass.<\/p>\n<p>Al Fateh were unable to find a way back into the match, while Al Nassr held on to their two-goal advantage until the final whistle.<\/p>\n<p>With the 3\u20130 victory, Al Nassr opened their campaign with three points and began their title defense in convincing fashion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agency, Aug 16: Defending champions Al Nassr have made a winning start to their Saudi Pro League title defense, defeating Al Fateh 3\u20130 in their opening match on Saturday night. At Al-Awwal Park, Al Nassr took the lead in the 37th minute through Angelo, who headed home from Salim Al-Najdi\u2019s cross. The hosts doubled their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53105"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53107,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53105\/revisions\/53107"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}