{"id":56677,"date":"2026-10-13T08:37:57","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T02:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=56677"},"modified":"2026-10-13T08:37:57","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T02:52:57","slug":"al-nassr-secure-first-afc-champions-league-elite-win-with-ronaldo-on-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/al-nassr-secure-first-afc-champions-league-elite-win-with-ronaldo-on-target\/","title":{"rendered":"Al Nassr secure first AFC Champions League Elite win with Ronaldo on target"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><strong>Agency, Oct 13:<\/strong> Al Nassr secured their first victory in the AFC Champions League Elite West Zone, defeating 10-man Neftchi Fergana 3-1 on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>Cristiano Ronaldo and Angelo scored a goal each, while an own goal helped Al Nassr seal all three points at Al-Awwal Park.<\/p>\n<p>Angelo opened the scoring for the home side in the 33rd minute before Ronaldo doubled the advantage nine minutes later, giving Al Nassr a comfortable 2-0 lead at half-time.<\/p>\n<p>Neftchi Fergana responded in the 51st minute through Alisher Odilov, reducing the deficit to 2-1 and briefly raising hopes of a comeback.<\/p>\n<p>However, the visitors&#8217; task became more difficult in the 65th minute when Ikrom Alibaev was sent off, leaving Neftchi Fergana with 10 players.<\/p>\n<p>Al Nassr capitalised on their numerical advantage in the 78th minute when Anvar Gofurov scored an own goal, extending the hosts&#8217; lead to 3-1 and confirming their victory.<\/p>\n<p>With the win, Al Nassr moved to eighth place in the standings with three points from two matches. Neftchi Fergana, who also have three points from two games, sit seventh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agency, Oct 13: Al Nassr secured their first victory in the AFC Champions League Elite West Zone, defeating 10-man Neftchi Fergana 3-1 on Monday night. Cristiano Ronaldo and Angelo scored a goal each, while an own goal helped Al Nassr seal all three points at Al-Awwal Park. Angelo opened the scoring for the home side [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56677","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\/56677"}],"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=56677"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56680,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56677\/revisions\/56680"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}