Cristiano Ronaldo, OUT

Cristiano Ronaldo He is not going to be summoned with him Al-Nassr to Uzbekistan to play a match of the Champions League of the AFC. This comes a week after the team’s previous match in the competition was postponed amid concerns that the security situation in Saudi Arabia continues to affect Asia’s major football tournaments.

Thus, the Portuguese striker will stay at home and is out for the competition’s group stage clash against Pajtakor. Ronaldo, who scored a hat trick in a Saudi Pro League match last week – reaching 985 career goals – has been ruled out by Ange Postecoglou for this Monday’s match. Postecoglou, former coach of Tottenham and the Australian national team, declared at a press conference in Uzbekistan that he was resting Ronaldo, Kingsley Coman and Mohamed Simakan “due to the load of matches and the travel that this entails.”

Al-Nassr, who are aiming to win their first Asian title, have had an uneven start and are in ninth place in the western group; It is also the worst ranked of the five representatives of the Saudi league in this 32-team tournament. The continental championship is divided into two groups of 16 – east and west – and the best eight from each qualify for the direct elimination phase.