The Al-Nassr Sentinel
Player ratings18 Sep 2028
Abdullah Matuq runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 49. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match13 Sep 2028
Al-Nassr through in the cup
A 1‑0 win over Al-Saudi Al-Watani, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Match16 Sep 2028
Al-Nassr throw away a 3-goal lead
3 in front and in complete control, and it finished with Damac the happier side. There is no version of this afternoon that Al-Nassr will enjoy reviewing.
Match13 Sep 2028
Al-Nassr win it in stoppage time
The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 121th minute. Al-Saudi Al-Watani will replay every second of the added time for a week.
Player ratings18 Sep 2028
Yassine Benzia, 34, rolls back the years — 9.24
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 9.24 at 34, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Squad18 Sep 2028
Haroune Camara: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Al-Nassr have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market18 Sep 2028
Only the photograph left for Abdelkader Bedrane
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Abdelkader Bedrane will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Al-Nassr the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad18 Sep 2028
A move Thomas Blázquez would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Thomas Blázquez is living that version at Al-Nassr, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad18 Sep 2028
Tempers go at Al-Nassr
Kingsley Coman was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
In brief
- Squad No hiding place for Raghid Najjar
- Player ratings Silvère Ganvoula was on a different afternoon to everybody else
- Player ratings Kingsley Coman was on a different afternoon to everybody else