Overview
- Sadio Mané opened the scoring in the 9th minute with a first-time finish from a Kingsley Coman cross.
- Cristiano Ronaldo made it 2–0 with a 35th-minute header from Mané’s delivery, taking his career total to 946 goals, 54 short of 1,000.
- The match at King Abdullah Sports City counted for Jornada 4, with both sides entering level on nine points.
- Karim Benzema featured for Al-Ittihad, but Al-Nassr held firm to secure a clean sheet away from home.
- The game drew broad international coverage, including FOX Sports and fuboTV in the U.S., Movistar Plus+ in Spain, and Caliente TV and Amazon Prime Video in Mexico.