Only until the quarter-finals of the Champions of Asia could arrive Christian Ronaldo and his millionaire To the-Nassr in the first season of the new project of Saudi Arabia. The team of the Portuguese forward fell the night of this Monday in front of the To the-Ain of the Argentinian Hernán Crespo in the batch of penaltis after the duel of turn of the chambers, contested in Riad.

The group of Arab Emirates Joined fell by 4-3 and had to define the eliminatory in the penaltis after the 1-0 of the gone. The Moroccan Soufiane Rahimi, author of the goal of the triumph of the To the-Ain in the first party, had attained to initiate the meeting with a 0-2 that seemed that it had sentenced the options of the team of Cristiano, although the To the-Nassr saw something of light in the fifth minute of the addition, when Abdulrahman Ghareeb annotated after an assistance of Sadio Mané.

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The Saudi team began to believe in the traced back and in the 73', after an alucinante failure of Cristiano Ronaldo, the Brazilian Alex Telles equalised the eliminatory with a free direct without apparent excessive danger, but that the defence of the To the-Ain was unable to neutralise and finish being the 3-2. The party had to leave to the extention in front of the inability of CR7 to be able to annotate to a metre of the goal, although it neither remained of the all clear if the so much would have been cancelled by offside.

Cristiano and his 'cracks' could not in the penaltis

In the extra time the local team suffered an expulsion after a review in the VAR. The To the-Ain took advantage of his numerical superiority and in the minute 103 arrived the goal for the 3-3, but to one of the end of the extention Cristiano Ronaldo annotated a penalti to annotate the 4-3 and send the duel to the launchings from the eleven metres. In the penaltis only the luso marked his launching. They failed Marcelo Brozovic, Telles and Otávio. By the To the-Ain annotated the three shots that sufficed him Rahimi, Kaku and To the Shamsi.