Ronaldo scored his 50th goal in 2023 with Al-Nassr’s victory over Al Shabab in the Saudi Arabian King’s Cup.
Even at the age of 38, Ronaldo was still extremely active in the match this morning (December 12). Even Al-Nassr’s captain could have opened the score from the 13th minute if it weren’t for the brilliance of Al Shabab goalkeeper in Al-Nassr’s 5-2 victory in the quarterfinals of the King’s Cup.
Against Al Shabab, Ronaldo only scored for himself in the 74th minute when the match was going on with a score of 3-1 in favor of Al-Nassr. Receiving the ball from the edge of the left penalty area, Ronaldo coordinated to bounce off the wall with Otavio to enter the penalty area, launching an uncomfortable low shot to beat goalkeeper Kim Seung Gyu to increase the score to 4-1.
In the remaining minutes, each team had 1 more goal and in the end Al-Nassr won 5-1.
Ronaldo reaches 50 goals in 2023
With this goal, Ronaldo increased his career goal statistics to 869 goals, improving his own record. In addition, Ronaldo also reached the milestone of 50 goals after 56 matches during the year at club and team levels.
Specifically, Ronaldo has 40 goals and 12 assists in 47 matches for Al Nassr. On the Portuguese team, captain Al-Nassr has 10 goals and 2 assists.
Of this total number of goals, the 38-year-old superstar has 12 goals from penalties, 3 goals from wall free kicks and 6 long-range goals.
Ronaldo is likely to improve his achievements when he still has 3 matches with Al-Nassr in 2023
This is the first time since 2017 that Ronaldo reached the 50 goal mark in a year. Previously, the 38-year-old superstar reached the milestone for 7 consecutive years (2011-2017). 2013 was CR7’s most impressive season with 69 goals in the year for Real Madrid and the team.
From now until 2023, the Portuguese superstar can still improve this achievement with Al Nassr with 3 matches left to play this year.
With a jubilant victory over Al Shabab, Al-Nassr entered the semi-finals. Ronaldo and his team’s opponent is likely to be defending champion Al Hilal.
Previously, Ronaldo’s team defeated Ohod 5-1 in the round of 16, before defeating Al-Ettifaq 1-0 in the round of 16.
In the next match, Ronaldo and his teammates will return to the Saudi Pro League when hosting Al-Ettifaq on December 23.
