Ronaldo, Al Nassr reach Asian Champions League group stage

 

Saudi Pro League side Al Nassr completed a late fight- reverse to book their place in the group stage draw for the Asian titleholders League with Anderson Talisca scoring doubly in a 4- 2 palm over Shabab Al Ahli of the United Arab Emirates in Riyadh on Tuesday.

Talisca gave Al Nassr an 11th- nanosecond lead when he headed in Marcelo Brozovic’s corner, but pretensions in the 18th and 46th twinkles from Yahya Al Ghassani put the 2015 runners- up ahead and left the big- spending Saudis at threat of exiting the competition.

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still, Sultan Al Ghannam’s 88th- nanosecond title levelled the scores and Talisca jounced in his alternate in the fifth nanosecond of injury time to put Al Nassr back in front.

Set up by Cristiano Ronaldo, Brozovic also sealed the palm two twinkles latterly with a low strike from the edge of the penalty area as Al Nassr verified their place in Thursday’s draw.

Al- Nassr blazoned on Tuesday the addition to their team of Portugal midfielder Otavio, who joined from Porto.

According to reports, the Saudi platoon will pay a transfer figure of 60 million euros($65.08 million) for the midfielder.

Otavio, 28, scored 31 pretensions in 283 games in all competitions for Porto after joining the platoon in 2014.

Uzbekistan’s Navbahor also progressed to the coming round with a 1- 0 palm over 10- man Al Wakrah from Qatar, Doniyor Abdumannopov scoring the game’s only thing eight twinkles into redundant time after Khaled Youssef Shurrab was transferred off.

Navbahor will be joined in the draw by Sharjah from the UAE, who handed their Iranian hosts Tractor FC a 3- 1 defeat in Tabriz.

Shaheen Abdalla and Ousmane Camara gave Cosmin Olaroiu’s side a two- thing lead and, while Mehdi Hashemnejad pulled one back with four twinkles remaining, Caio Lucas put the result beyond mistrustfulness from the penalty spot in the last nanosecond.

AGMK, also from Uzbekistan, completed the group stage line- up after Ruben Sanchez’s 69th- nanosecond thing sealed a 1- 0 palm over Qatari outfit Al Arabi.