Overview
- Al Nassr moved to 15 points from five matches with a 5–1 home win on October 18, extending a perfect league start and a four-point lead over Al Hilal.
- João Félix scored a hat-trick — his second in the league this season — to reach eight goals and lead the scoring chart.
- Cristiano Ronaldo had a penalty saved before immediately scoring from long range, a strike reported as his 949th career and 800th club goal.
- Kingsley Coman added the fifth after Sofiane Bendebka’s equalizer, leaving Al Fateh on one point in 16th place.
- The game drew wide reach through Fox Soccer Plus and Fubo in the United States and FanCode in India, as a post-match clip showed Ronaldo guiding YouTuber IShowSpeed in the team’s “Viking clap.”