{"id":53273,"date":"2026-08-19T06:50:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T01:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=53273"},"modified":"2026-08-19T06:50:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T01:05:00","slug":"al-nassr-advance-to-saudi-kings-cup-round-of-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/al-nassr-advance-to-saudi-kings-cup-round-of-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Al Nassr Advance to Saudi King\u2019s Cup Round of 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><strong>Agency, Aug 19:<\/strong>\u00a0Al Nassr secured a convincing victory in the Saudi King\u2019s Cup on Tuesday night, defeating Al Diriyah 4-1 in the Round of 32 to book their place in the next round.<\/p>\n<p>Playing at Al-Awwal Park, Al Nassr came from behind to seal a comfortable win. Jo\u00e3o F\u00e9lix scored twice, while Mohamed Simakan and Abdullah Al-Hamdan added one goal each for the hosts. Oscar Rodr\u00edguez scored Al Diriyah\u2019s only goal.<\/p>\n<p>Al Diriyah made a dream start, taking the lead in just the second minute through Rodr\u00edguez.<\/p>\n<p>Al Nassr responded quickly, with Simakan finding the net in the 11th minute to level the score at 1-1. F\u00e9lix then put Al Nassr ahead in the 36th minute before Al-Hamdan extended the lead just a minute later to make it 3-1 at halftime.<\/p>\n<p>F\u00e9lix completed his brace in the 68th minute, putting the result beyond doubt as Al Nassr wrapped up a 4-1 victory and progressed to the Round of 16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agency, Aug 19:\u00a0Al Nassr secured a convincing victory in the Saudi King\u2019s Cup on Tuesday night, defeating Al Diriyah 4-1 in the Round of 32 to book their place in the next round. Playing at Al-Awwal Park, Al Nassr came from behind to seal a comfortable win. Jo\u00e3o F\u00e9lix scored twice, while Mohamed Simakan and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53273","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\/53273"}],"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=53273"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53276,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53273\/revisions\/53276"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}